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- Title
ON DAVIDSON'S REFUTATION OF CONCEPTUAL SCHEMES AND CONCEPTUAL RELATIVISM.
- Authors
WANG, XINLI
- Abstract
Despite Donald Davidson's influential criticism of the very notion of conceptual schemes, the notion continues enjoying its popularity in contemporary philosophy and, accordingly, conceptual relativism is still very much alive. There is one major reason responsible for Davidson's failure which has not been widely recognized: What Davidson attacks fiercely is not the very notion, but a notion of conceptual schemes, namely, the Quinean notion of conceptual schemes and its underlying Kantian scheme-content dualism. However, such a notion simply cannot carry the weight of conceptual relativism for it does not catch the essences of conceptual relativism. Consequently, I argue that the very notion of conceptual schemes and conceptual relativism have survived Davidson's attack. Therefore, the failure of the Quinean notion of conceptual schemes and Kantian scheme-content dualism, even if Davidson can claim victory, does not mark the end of the very notion of conceptual schemes.
- Subjects
RELATIVITY; DAVIDSON, Donald, 1917-2003; DUALISM; EMPIRICISM; PHILOSOPHY; LINGUISTIC models; CONCEPTUALISM
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2009, Vol 90, Issue 1, p140
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0114.2009.01332.x