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Aside from what's there, I just added some stuff on (1) The formal-semantics-for-natural-languages programme (2) the third dogma and Davidson's arument against conceptual relativism; (3) His theory of (radical) interpretation and how it compares to translation as Quine meant it, and its bearing on the indeterminacy thesis; (4) his arguments on the incoherence of skepticism: no correctly ascribed belief-set can be largely false. However Netscape crashed and I lost it. Point is, those are the most important bits to add that are currently missing altogether.
Stanford EP ( http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/davidson/) says that Davidson was married twice, not three times. Who's right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.221.176.224 ( talk) 18:01, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
He was married three times. Stanford EP has been corrected, as has this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ehasbrouck ( talk • contribs) 22:26, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi all. I recently went through and tried to clean up a few things and expand a few things. Hope it looks good. The article could use more work. Davidson is a huge figure in philosophy. -- Jaymay 08:21, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Should add a reference to his work on metaphor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xdaseinx ( talk • contribs) 20:57, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
- The introduction includes an extensive quote: << concluding famously that "there is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. There is therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with." >> yet this is not cited, making it dubious indeed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8109:8100:428:6CA8:F8A1:E374:300E ( talk) 11:06, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
This well-written wiki page begins in error. Davidson told Rorty in this series of discussion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjWTuF35GtY "By your standards, I am a straightforward pragmatist." So, to say he is "clearly an analytic philosopher" undermines his own satisfaction with Rorty's readings of his work. Further, if you take Davidson seriously, no one can clearly be an analytic philosopher any more than someone can clearly have a conceptual scheme! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.232.188.158 ( talk) 15:37, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
I created a short article on truth-conditional semantics, and also made some edits to the philosophy of language page; the latter I filled in the empty section on Philosophy of language#Davidson and Truth theories, based on the comments in this article. However there are two criticisms of the material from here I corrected:
I'm guessing these changes, or something like them, are worth applying here too ---- Charles Stewart 00:31, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I'm shocked that Philebus is a red link. Its certainly an important dialogue. Someone more learned than I should put together an article for it, but I'll try to get it started if no one else steps up to the plate. -- Christofurio 13:04, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
What are the criteria for inclusion as being influenced by Davidson? The last two names on the list (Ludwig and Lepore) are merely Davidson scholars, which is substantially different from being a genuinely original philosopher who was influenced by Davidson, which is what I take the category actually to be geared towards. If we're going to include people who are admirers of Davidson, or people who have written about his works, we could expand the list of influenced people considerably--but that can't be what it's intended for. I'll leave the deletion to someone else though in case I'm wrong about this. To be fair, the line is hard to draw. (I'd count Rorty as definitely in, Ludwig as definitely out, but it's not clear about all the names in between, e.g., Evans.) 68.40.182.103 10:15, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Also, is it really true that Davidson was influenced by Spinoza? There are no references to Spinoza on the page outside of the template box. All I could find elsewhere was one article by Davidson on Spinoza, but one article does not an influence make. (I don't know enough about Davidson to really answer this question, so I'm just posing it here). JustinBlank ( talk) 05:40, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I like the article, but it seemed odd to me not to include what first introduced me to Davidson because it's so widely referenced, his critique of worldviews (and by implication Kuhn's paradigms or Foucault's epistemes) as a "third dogma" of empiricism. The reference of course is to Quine's classic article and thus promises to complete Quine's wholism. Readers on philosophy of language also often include his article on metaphor, which criticizes the idea that the sentence means something literally and something else metaphorically. I'm afraid I don't have the talent or expertise to write the rest of the entry myself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.182.77.130 ( talk) 18:03, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
I am uneasy to see this quotation attached to the radical interpretation paragraph, as they are both two different issues in his philosophy of language. RI refers to how language can be interpreted into an amenable Tarksian theory of truth, whilst the quotation refers to Davidson's mature stance that natural language can not in fact be comprehended through formalised theories. Can we not separate the two?-- Vindicta ( talk) 20:33, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Minor complaint but I find myself tripping over the word "elliptically" here. If elliptically means "enigmatically", the reference is probably to Eros as thematized by Plato (in the Phaedrus and the Symposium in particular). If elliptically means "euphemistically" then the author misunderstood Nagel's remark.
I would remove "elliptically" altogether or replace it with something like "alluding to Plato's conception of philosophy". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.210.44.143 ( talk) 08:48, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
His description of the "Swampman" sounds suspiciously like the Swamp Thing from DC Comics. Farewell, Randolph Carter, and beware - FOR I AM NYARLATHOTEP, THE CRAWLING CHAOS!! 18:32, 11 October 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by RyokoMocha ( talk • contribs)
I agree with this and when I read this article I was surprised it was not mentioned at all. The premise of "Swampman" is the exact same premise as Alan Moore's contribution to "Swamp Thing" starting in 1983. Moore retconned Swamp Thing's origin story just to emphasize this particular scenario occurring, so it seems very likely it was taken from that. The thought experiment should really give Alan Moore some level of attribution because it takes the basic plot of his comic as his own thought experiment. That's like a philosopher straight up stealing the plot of the Matrix and attributing it to being their own thought experiment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glokplopit ( talk • contribs) 21:05, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
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Aside from what's there, I just added some stuff on (1) The formal-semantics-for-natural-languages programme (2) the third dogma and Davidson's arument against conceptual relativism; (3) His theory of (radical) interpretation and how it compares to translation as Quine meant it, and its bearing on the indeterminacy thesis; (4) his arguments on the incoherence of skepticism: no correctly ascribed belief-set can be largely false. However Netscape crashed and I lost it. Point is, those are the most important bits to add that are currently missing altogether.
Stanford EP ( http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/davidson/) says that Davidson was married twice, not three times. Who's right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.221.176.224 ( talk) 18:01, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
He was married three times. Stanford EP has been corrected, as has this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ehasbrouck ( talk • contribs) 22:26, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi all. I recently went through and tried to clean up a few things and expand a few things. Hope it looks good. The article could use more work. Davidson is a huge figure in philosophy. -- Jaymay 08:21, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Should add a reference to his work on metaphor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xdaseinx ( talk • contribs) 20:57, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
- The introduction includes an extensive quote: << concluding famously that "there is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. There is therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with." >> yet this is not cited, making it dubious indeed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8109:8100:428:6CA8:F8A1:E374:300E ( talk) 11:06, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
This well-written wiki page begins in error. Davidson told Rorty in this series of discussion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjWTuF35GtY "By your standards, I am a straightforward pragmatist." So, to say he is "clearly an analytic philosopher" undermines his own satisfaction with Rorty's readings of his work. Further, if you take Davidson seriously, no one can clearly be an analytic philosopher any more than someone can clearly have a conceptual scheme! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.232.188.158 ( talk) 15:37, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
I created a short article on truth-conditional semantics, and also made some edits to the philosophy of language page; the latter I filled in the empty section on Philosophy of language#Davidson and Truth theories, based on the comments in this article. However there are two criticisms of the material from here I corrected:
I'm guessing these changes, or something like them, are worth applying here too ---- Charles Stewart 00:31, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I'm shocked that Philebus is a red link. Its certainly an important dialogue. Someone more learned than I should put together an article for it, but I'll try to get it started if no one else steps up to the plate. -- Christofurio 13:04, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
What are the criteria for inclusion as being influenced by Davidson? The last two names on the list (Ludwig and Lepore) are merely Davidson scholars, which is substantially different from being a genuinely original philosopher who was influenced by Davidson, which is what I take the category actually to be geared towards. If we're going to include people who are admirers of Davidson, or people who have written about his works, we could expand the list of influenced people considerably--but that can't be what it's intended for. I'll leave the deletion to someone else though in case I'm wrong about this. To be fair, the line is hard to draw. (I'd count Rorty as definitely in, Ludwig as definitely out, but it's not clear about all the names in between, e.g., Evans.) 68.40.182.103 10:15, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Also, is it really true that Davidson was influenced by Spinoza? There are no references to Spinoza on the page outside of the template box. All I could find elsewhere was one article by Davidson on Spinoza, but one article does not an influence make. (I don't know enough about Davidson to really answer this question, so I'm just posing it here). JustinBlank ( talk) 05:40, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I like the article, but it seemed odd to me not to include what first introduced me to Davidson because it's so widely referenced, his critique of worldviews (and by implication Kuhn's paradigms or Foucault's epistemes) as a "third dogma" of empiricism. The reference of course is to Quine's classic article and thus promises to complete Quine's wholism. Readers on philosophy of language also often include his article on metaphor, which criticizes the idea that the sentence means something literally and something else metaphorically. I'm afraid I don't have the talent or expertise to write the rest of the entry myself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.182.77.130 ( talk) 18:03, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
I am uneasy to see this quotation attached to the radical interpretation paragraph, as they are both two different issues in his philosophy of language. RI refers to how language can be interpreted into an amenable Tarksian theory of truth, whilst the quotation refers to Davidson's mature stance that natural language can not in fact be comprehended through formalised theories. Can we not separate the two?-- Vindicta ( talk) 20:33, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Minor complaint but I find myself tripping over the word "elliptically" here. If elliptically means "enigmatically", the reference is probably to Eros as thematized by Plato (in the Phaedrus and the Symposium in particular). If elliptically means "euphemistically" then the author misunderstood Nagel's remark.
I would remove "elliptically" altogether or replace it with something like "alluding to Plato's conception of philosophy". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.210.44.143 ( talk) 08:48, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
His description of the "Swampman" sounds suspiciously like the Swamp Thing from DC Comics. Farewell, Randolph Carter, and beware - FOR I AM NYARLATHOTEP, THE CRAWLING CHAOS!! 18:32, 11 October 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by RyokoMocha ( talk • contribs)
I agree with this and when I read this article I was surprised it was not mentioned at all. The premise of "Swampman" is the exact same premise as Alan Moore's contribution to "Swamp Thing" starting in 1983. Moore retconned Swamp Thing's origin story just to emphasize this particular scenario occurring, so it seems very likely it was taken from that. The thought experiment should really give Alan Moore some level of attribution because it takes the basic plot of his comic as his own thought experiment. That's like a philosopher straight up stealing the plot of the Matrix and attributing it to being their own thought experiment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glokplopit ( talk • contribs) 21:05, 21 September 2023 (UTC)