Davidson: Knowing Ones Own Mind
Sorry, I fell behind on my Davidson. This is my reading through Davidson’s Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective. My last post was on the first essay, “First Person Authority” where Davidson argued that due to the way we interpret there is a presumption that an other persons beliefs are largely correct and thus their first person accounts [...]
Davidson: First Person Authority
I’m slowly going through some of my Davidson texts. I’m starting with Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective. This is a procession through roughly the first person perspective to the shared perspective to the objective. So the first obvious question is why we should assume that first person introspection is so trustworthy. Or, as Davidson puts it, “why [...]
Once Again Davidson
OK, a quick Davidson post. After last week I once again learned that I really must reread what I’m commenting on. Especially after a year of not reading any philosophy and arguably a year before that of having limited time to do much philosophy. Anyway, I fully admit to getting some basic stuff wrong that [...]
Critiquing Davidson
DuckRabbit has had a series of posts on Davidson that have been quite interesting. One I’d linked to on the sideblog was Davidson and Dummett. I’d suggested there that perhaps Dummett’s criticism of Davidson was similar to Derrida’s critique of Gadamer (which I’d discussed at the old blog about four years ago) Unfortunately it’s just [...]
Davidson on Analytic Philosophy
I don’t think of analytic philosophy quite in the same way that Rorty does. He thinks of analytic philosophy as being almost entirely concerned with epistemology, with producing one or another response to skepticism; however, I think of analytic philosophy as a method. The method is one which tries to state problems and arguments as [...]
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