- Title Pages
- Preface
- Detailed Table of Contents
- Note on In-Text Citations
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1 Introduction -
Part 1 Historical Introduction to Truth-Theoretic Semantics -
2 Learnable Languages and the Compositionality Requirement -
3 The Form of a Meaning Theory and Difficulties for Traditional Approaches -
4 The Introduction of a Truth Theory as the Vehicle of a Meaning Theory -
5 Truth and Context Sensitivity -
6 Davidson's Extensionalist Proposal -
7 The Extensionality and Determination Problems -
8 Foster's Objection -
9 Relation to an Explicit Meaning Theory and to Semantic Competence -
10 The Problem of Semantic Defects in Natural Languages - Summary of Part I
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Part II Radical Interpretation -
11 Clarifying the Project -
12 The Procedure of the Radical Interpreter -
13 The Justification of the Principle of Charity -
14 The Theory of Agency and Additional Constraints -
15 Indeterminacy -
16 Development of a Unified Theory of Meaning and Action -
17 The Reality of Language - Summary of Part II
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Part III Metaphysics and Epistemology -
18 The Impossibility of Alternative Conceptual Schemes -
19 Externalism and the Impossibility of Massive Error239 -
20 First Person Authority265 -
21 Inscrutability of Reference285 -
22 Language, Thought, and World - Summary of Part III
- Bibliography
- Index
The Justification of the Principle of Charity
The Justification of the Principle of Charity
- Chapter:
- (p.198) 13 The Justification of the Principle of Charity
- Source:
- Donald Davidson
- Author(s):
Ernie Lepore (Contributor Webpage)
Kirk Ludwig (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Takes up the question of how to justify the Principle of Charity. Three a priori arguments are examined, the argument from the holism of attitude content, the argument to the best explanation of human beings and their place in the natural world, and the argument from the necessity of radical interpretation. Difficulties are raised for each of these arguments.
Keywords: justification of the Principle of Charity, the argument from holism of attitude content, the argument from the best explanation, the argument from the necessity of radical interpretation
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Detailed Table of Contents
- Note on In-Text Citations
-
1 Introduction -
Part 1 Historical Introduction to Truth-Theoretic Semantics -
2 Learnable Languages and the Compositionality Requirement -
3 The Form of a Meaning Theory and Difficulties for Traditional Approaches -
4 The Introduction of a Truth Theory as the Vehicle of a Meaning Theory -
5 Truth and Context Sensitivity -
6 Davidson's Extensionalist Proposal -
7 The Extensionality and Determination Problems -
8 Foster's Objection -
9 Relation to an Explicit Meaning Theory and to Semantic Competence -
10 The Problem of Semantic Defects in Natural Languages - Summary of Part I
-
Part II Radical Interpretation -
11 Clarifying the Project -
12 The Procedure of the Radical Interpreter -
13 The Justification of the Principle of Charity -
14 The Theory of Agency and Additional Constraints -
15 Indeterminacy -
16 Development of a Unified Theory of Meaning and Action -
17 The Reality of Language - Summary of Part II
-
Part III Metaphysics and Epistemology -
18 The Impossibility of Alternative Conceptual Schemes -
19 Externalism and the Impossibility of Massive Error239 -
20 First Person Authority265 -
21 Inscrutability of Reference285 -
22 Language, Thought, and World - Summary of Part III
- Bibliography
- Index
