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In Chapter 1 of Problems of Rationality entitled “The Problem of Objectivity,” Donald Davidson establishes an argument to the effect that thought – in the sense of a thinking activity that makes truth claims about its objects – is dependent on the concept of objectivity (Davidson, 2004, pp. 3–18; originally published in 1995).
- Klaus Brinkmann
- 2011
“Objectivity depends not on the location of an attributed property, or its supposed conceptual tie to human sensibilities; it depends on there being a systematic relationship between the attitude-causing properties of things and events, and the
- Pascal Engel
- Humanities and Social Sciences/Philosophy
- 7/6/2024 9:04:38 PM
In a series of articles, Donald Davidson has argued that the objectivity of value follows from the objective truth of propositional attitude ascriptions, the latter being understood in terms of an account of mental content as determined by constraints
In most senses, moral judgements are neither objective nor subjective, and the belief that they have to be one or the other is the result of a fundamental error (e.g. descriptivism), which both objectivists and subjectivists make.
come to think of Donald Davidson's work as deepening and extending the lines of thought traced by Sellars and Quine. So I have been writing more and more about Davidson —trying to clarify his views to myself, to defend them against actual and possible objections, and to extend them into areas which, Davidson himself has not yet explored. The ...
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Although he did not write on ethics, Davidson wrote a few papers on the objectivity of values. His argument rests on his holistic conception of interpretation of desires. I examine whether this argument can be sufficient for his objectivism about values.
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Aug 3, 2020 · Abstract In a series of articles, Donald Davidson has argued that the objectivity of value is entailed by the objectivity of propositional attitude ascriptions. In this paper I explore the scope an...
