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- Title
DAVIDSON'S EXTERNALISMS.
- Authors
BORGONI, CRISTENA; SOUZA, HERIVELTO
- Abstract
Donald Davidson has deeply contributed to what is nowadays called Externalism. However, the exact formulation of his externalism is not obvious since his externalist commitments are spread along many of his papers. The aim of this work is to explore the details of his extemalism. We will point out that Davidson clearly defends that the mind is not self-contained. Nonetheless, this idea acquires at least two different senses under his view: on the one hand, mental states and contents must be individuated in part by factors external to one's skin because the former were caused by the latter; and on the other hand, mental states and contents must be individuated in part by external factors because the mind is constituted by knowledge. We will point out that the apparently harmonious relation between those two levels of explanation turn out to be conflictive at a certain point within the very Davidsonian program.
- Subjects
DAVIDSON, Donald, 1917-2003; EXTERNALISM (Philosophy of mind); THOUGHT &; thinking; QUINE, Willard Van Orman, 1908-2000; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Universitas Philosophica, 2009, Vol 26, Issue 53, p65
- ISSN
0120-5323
- Publication type
Article