Davidson’s Wittgenstein
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https://doi.org/10.15173/jhap.v8i5.3969Abstract
Although the later Wittgenstein appears as one of the most influential figures in Davidson’s later works on meaning, it is not, for the most part, clear how Davidson interprets and employs Wittgenstein’s ideas. In this paper, I will argue that Davidson’s later works on meaning can be seen as mainly a manifestation of his attempt to accommodate the later Wittgenstein’s basic ideas about meaning and understanding, especially the requirement of drawing the seems right/is right distinction and the way this requirement must be met. These ideas, however, are interpreted by Davidson in his own way. I will then argue that Davidson even attempts to respect Wittgenstein’s quietism, provided that we understand this view in the way Davidson does. Having argued for that, I will finally investigate whether, for Davidson at least, his more theoretical and supposedly explanatory projects, such as that of constructing a formal theory of meaning and his use of the notion of triangulation, are in conflict with this Wittgensteinian quietist view.
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———, 2005. Truth, Language, and History. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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———, 1994. Mind and World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
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———, 2010. “Wittgenstein’s Externalism.” In The Later Wittgenstein on Language, edited by Daniel Whiting, pp. 63–80. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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———, 1967. “Truth and Meaning.” Synthese 17: 304–23.
———, 1968. “On Saying That.” Synthese 19: 130–46.
———, 1970. “Mental Events.” In Experience & Theory, edited by Lawrence Forster and J. W. Swanson, pp. 79–102. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. Reprinted in Davidson (2001a), pp. 207–24.
———, 1973a. “In Defence of Convention T.” In Truth, Syntax and Modality, edited by Hugues Leblanc, pp. 76–86. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
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———, 1974a. “Belief and the Basis of Meaning.” Synthese 27: 309–23. Reprinted in Davidson (2001c), pp. 141–54.
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———, 1984b. “First Person Authority.” Dialectica 38: 101–12.
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———, 1988a. “Epistemology and Truth.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Panamerican Philosophy Conference. Córdoba, Argentina: National University of Córdoba. Reprinted in Davidson (2001d), pp. 177–92.
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———, 1990b. “The Structure and Content of Truth.” Journal of Philosophy 87: 279–328.
———, 1991a. “James Joyce and Humpty Dumpty.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 16: 1–12.
———, 1991b. “Three Varieties of Knowledge.” In A. J. Ayer: Memorial Essays, edited by A. Phillip Griffiths, pp. 153–66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reprinted in Davidson (2001d), pp. 205–20.
———, 1992. “The Second Person.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 17: 255–67. Reprinted in Davidson (2001d), pp. 107–22.
———, 1993a. “Locating Literary Language.” In Literary Theory after Davidson, edited by Reed Way Dasenbrock, pp. 295–308. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. Reprinted in Davidson (2005), pp. 167–81.
———, 1993b. “The Third Man.” Critical Inquiry 19: 607–16.
———, 1994a. “Dialectic and Dialogue.” In Preyer, Siebelt and Ulfig (1994), pp. 429–37.
———, 1994b. “The Social Aspect of Language.” In The Philosophy of Michael Dummett, edited by Brian McGuinness and Gianluigi Oliveri, pp. 1–16. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Reprinted in Davidson (2005), pp. 109–26.
———, 1995. “Could There Be a Science of Rationality?” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 3: 1–16. Reprinted in Davidson (2004), pp. 117–34.
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———, 1997b. “Indeterminism and Antirealism.” In Realism/Antirealism and Epistemology, edited by Christopher B. Kulp, pp. 109–22. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. Reprinted in Davidson (2001d), pp. 69–84.
———, 1997c. “Seeing through Language.” In Thought and Language, edited by John Preston, pp. 15–28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reprinted in Davidson (2005), pp. 127–42.
———, 1998a. “Replies.” Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 30: 97–112. Reprinted in Davidson (2005), pp. 315–28.
———, 1998b. “The Irreducibility of the Concept of the Self.” In Philosophie in synthetischer Absicht, edited by Marcelo Stamm, pp. 123–30. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. Reprinted in Davidson (2001d), pp. 85–92.
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———, 2000. “Truth Rehabilitated.” In Rorty and His Critics, edited by Robert B. Brandom, pp. 65–74. Oxford: Blackwell. Reprinted in Davidson (2005), pp. 3–17.
———, 2001a. Essays on Actions and Events. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
———, 2001b. “Externalisms.” In Kotatko, Pagin and Segal (2001), pp. 1–16.
———, 2001c. Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
. 2001d. Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
———, 2001e. “What Thought Requires.” In The Foundations of Cognitive Science, edited by João Branquinho, pp. 121–32. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reprinted in Davidson (2004), pp. 135–50.
———, 2004. Problems of Rationality. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
———, 2005. Truth, Language, and History. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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———, 1991. The Logical Basis of Metaphysics. London: Duckworth.
———, 1996. The Seas of Language. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Fennell, John, 2015. “Davidson: Normativist or Anti-normativist?” Acta Analytica 30: 67–86.
Fogelin, Robert J., 2009. Taking Wittgenstein at His Word. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Glüer, Kathrin, 2001. “Dreams and Nightmares: Conventions, Norms, and Meaning in Davidson’s Philosophy of Language.” In Kotatko, Pagin and Segal (2001), pp. 53–74.
———, 2006. “Triangulation.” In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, edited by Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith, pp. 1006–19. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
———, 2011. Donald Davidson: A Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
———, 2013. “Convention and Meaning.” In Lepore and Ludwig (2013), pp. 339–60.
Hale, Bob, Crispin Wright, and Alex Miller, eds., 2017. Companion to Philosophy of Language, second edition. Oxford: Wiley.
Heal, Jane, 1997. “Radical Interpretation.” In Hale, Wright and Miller (2017), pp. 299–323.
Horwich, Paul, 2013. Wittgenstein’s Metaphilosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hossein Khani, Ali, 2018a. “Quine on the Indeterminacy of Translation: A Dilemma for Davidson.” Dialectica 72: 101–20.
———, 2018b. “Review of Donald Davidson’s Triangulation Argument: A Philosophical Inquiry.” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 26: 113–17.
Hossein Khani, Ali, 2019. “Kripke’s Wittgenstein’s Sceptical Paradox: A Trilemma for Davidson.” International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 9: 21–37.
Kemp, Gary, 2012. Quine versus Davidson: Truth, Reference, and Meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Kotatko, Petr, Peter Pagin and Gabriel Segal, eds., 2001. Interpreting Davidson. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Kripke, Saul, 1982. Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Lasonen, Maria and Tomá Marvan, 2004. “Davidson’s Triangulation: Content-Endowing Causes and Circularity.” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 12: 177–95.
Lepore, Ernest, ed., 1986. Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson. Oxford: Blackwell.
Lepore, Ernest and Kirk Ludwig, eds., 2013. A Companion to Donald Davidson. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Ludwig, Kirk and Ernest Lepore, 2005. Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
———, 2007. “The Reality of Language: on the Davidson-Dummett Debate.” In The Philosophy of Michael Dummett. (Library of Living Philosophers 31), edited by Randall E. Auxier and Lewis Edwin Hahn, pp. 185–214. Peru, Ill.: Open Court.
Luntley, Michael, 2003. Wittgenstein: Meaning and Judgement. Oxford: Blackwell.
Macarthur, David, 2017. “Metaphysical Quietism and Everyday Life.” In The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology, edited by Giuseppina D’Oro and Søren Overgaard, pp. 270–96. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
. “Pragmatism, Metaphysical Quietism, and the Problem of Normativity.” Philosophical Topics 36: 193–209.
Malcolm, Norman, 1984. Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Malpas, Jeff, 1992. Davidson’s Holism: Epistemology in the Mirror of Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McDowell, John, 1981. “Anti-realism and the Epistemology of Understanding.” In Meaning and Understanding, edited by Herman Parret and Jacques Bouveresse. Berlin: de Gruyter.
———, 1994. Mind and World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
———, 2009. “Wittgensteinian ‘Quietism’.” Common Knowledge 15: 365–72.
McGinn, Marie, 1997. The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. New York: Routledge.
Miller, Alex, 2017. “Postscript.” In Hale, Wright and Miller (2017), pp. 696–702.
Miller, Alex and Ali Hossein Khani, 2015. “Davidson’s Antirealism?” Revista de Filosofia Aurora 27: 265–76.
Mulhall, Stephen, 2007. Wittgenstein’s Private Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Platts, Mark, 1980. Reference, Truth and Reality: Essays on the Philosophy of Language. London: Routledge.
———, 1997. Ways of Meaning: An Introduction to Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Preyer, Gerhard, Frank Siebelt and Alexander Ulfig, eds., 1994. Language, Mind, and Eplstemology: On Donald Davidson’s philosophy. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Price, Huw, 2015. “Idling and Sidling toward Philosophical Peace.” In Meaning without Representation: Expression, Truth, Normativity, and Naturalism, edited by Steven Gross, Nicholas Tebben and Michael Williams, pp. 307–30. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Proudfoot, Diane, 2004. “The Implications of an Externalist Theory of Rule-Following Behaviour for Robot Cognition.” Minds and Machines 14: 283–308.
Quine, W. V., 1968. “Reply to Chomsky.” Synthese 19: 274–83.
———, 1981. Theories and Things. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Rorty, Richard, 1982. Consequences of Pragmatism. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press.
———, 2007. “Naturalism and Quietism.” In Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philsophical Papers, Vol. 4, pp. 147–59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Stoutland, Frederick, 1982a. “Realism and Antirealism in Davidson’s Philosophy of Language I.” Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 14(41): 13–53.
———, 1982b. “Realism and Antirealism in Davidson’s Philosophy of Language II.” Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 14(42): 19–48.
Stroud, Barry, 2017. “Davidson and Wittgenstein on Meaning and Understanding.” In Verheggen (2017), pp. 123–38.
Talmage, Catherine J. L., 1997. “Meaning and Triangulation.” Linguistics and Philosophy 20: 139–45.
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