Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays Volume 3

Oxford, GB: Clarendon Press (2001)
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Abstract

This is the third volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In this selection of his work from the 1980s and the 90s, Davidson critically examines three types of propositional knowledge—knowledge of one's own mind, knowledge of other people's minds, and knowledge of the external world—by working out the nature and status of each type, and the connections and differences among them. While his main concern remains the relation between language, thought, and reality, Davidson's discussions touch a vast variety of issues in analytic metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, including those of truth, human rationality, and facets of the realism–antirealism debate.

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Indeterminism and Antirealism

Gives an insight into the richness of Davidson's contributions to the realism–anti‐realism debate, here with regards to the factuality of propositional‐attitude talk. Davidson argues that anti‐realism is best understood in epistemological terms, as a stance that commits ontologically in th... see more

Empirical Content

Explores Schlick's and Neurath's dispute over the foundations of empirical knowledge, and thereby equips ‘A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge’ with commentary and historical background. Davidson works out the difficulties involved in drawing epistemological conclusions from a verific... see more

Epistemology and Truth

As the title of the paper suggests, chapter 12 discusses the relation between epistemology and truth. Davidson criticizes two main (and apparently opposing) positions according to which truth is, respectively, radically non‐epistemic or to be spelled out in modal epistemological terms. Ins... see more

Epistemology Externalized

Attempts to radically revise the still predominant Cartesian underpinnings of epistemological theorizing, by attacking the belief that all knowledge is and all epistemology should be primarily based on first‐person knowledge. Davidson holds that a necessary condition of knowledge is third‐... see more

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