Davidson, Donald , University of California, Berkeley
Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective
Philosophical Essays Volume 3
Publication date 2001 (this edition)
Print ISBN-10: 0-19-823753-7
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823753-2
doi:10.1093/0198237537.001.0001
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 knowledgeknowledge of one's own mind, knowledge of other people's minds, and knowledge of the external worldby 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.
Keywords: anti-realism,epistemology,human rationality,knowledge,language,metaphysics,mind,other minds,philosophy of mind,realism,reality,the world,thought,truth
Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective
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Other volumes of collected essays by Donald Davidson
Essays on Actions and Events
Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation
Problems of Rationality (forthcoming)
Truth, Language, and History (forthcoming)
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Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective
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2001
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Contents
Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgements | Introduction |
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Subjective | First Person Authority (1984) | | Knowing One's Own Mind (1987) | | The Myth of the Subjective (1988) | | What is Present to the Mind? (1989) | | Indeterminism and Antirealism (1997) | | The Irreducibility of the Concept of the Self (1998) |
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Intersubjective | Rational Animals (1982) | | The Second Person (1992) | | The Emergence of Thought (1997) |
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Objective | A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge (1983) | Afterthoughts (1987) | | Empirical Content (1982) | | Epistemology and Truth (1988) | | Epistemology Externalized (1990) | | Three Varieties of Knowledge (1991) | Contents List of Volumes of Essays by Donald Davidson | Bibliographical References | Index |
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Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgements
Essay 1, 'First Person Authority', was read at a conference on intentionality organized by Henri Lauener and held in Biel, Switzerland, in 1983. Earlier versions had been read at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Stanford University, and the University of Colorado. It was first published in Dialectica, 38 (1984), 101-11.
'Knowing One's Own Mind', Essay 2, was delivered as the Presidential Address at the Sixtieth Annual Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Los Angeles on March 28, 1986, and published in Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association (1987), 441-58. It is reprinted here by permission of the American Philosophical Association. I am greatly indebted to Akeel Bilgrami and Ernie Lepore for criticism and advice, and to Tyler Burge, who generously tried to correct my understanding of his work.
Essay 3, 'The Myth of the Subjective', was read at a conference on Consciousness, Language, and Art in Vienna in 1986, and was published in the proceedings Bewusstsein, Sprache und die Kunst, edited by Michael Benedikt and Rudolf Berger, by Edition S. Verlag der sterreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 1988.
Essay 4, 'What is Present to the Mind?', was delivered at the Second International France Veber Colloquium, held in Bad Radkersburg, Austria, and Gornja Radgona, in what was then Yugoslavia and is now Slovenia. It was published in a book of essays on my work, most of them delivered at that conference. The editors of the book were Johannes Brandl and Wolfgang Gombocz, and it appeared as a special volume of Grazer Philosophische Studien (vol. 36, 1989) titled The Mind of Donald Davidson (Amsterdam: Rodopi).
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'Indeterminism and Antirealism', Essay 5, was read at a conference on realism and antirealism at Santa Clara University in early 1992. It was published in Realism/Antirealism and Epistemology, edited by C. B. Kulp (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).
Essay 6, 'The Irreducibility of the Concept of the Self', was written with the help and advice of Marcia Cavell for a book designed to honor the work of Dieter Henrich. The book, Philosophie in synthetischer Absicht, was edited by Marcelo Stamm (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1998).
Essay 7, 'Rational Animals', was delivered at a conference organized by Henri Lauener which took place in Biel, Switzerland, in 1981. It was first published in