Loose Ends Will Be Cleared Up

Links to Readings

Skepticism and Interpretation
Argues that Davidson's arguments against the possibility of massive error are unsuccessful, ultimately because it requires an overly strong reading of the requirement that meanings be publicly available.
Semantics for Opaque Contexts
Criticizes Davidson's account of attitude contexts and offers a replacement which treats the relata of attitude reports as sentences rather than utterances.
Complex Demonstratives
Paper with Lepore on the semantic form of complex demonstratives. The central proposal is that 'That F' has the form '[The x: x is F and x is that]'.
Vagueness and the Sorities Paradox
On vagueness rather than Davidson, but background for the problem that vagueness presents for truth-theoretic semantics.
Davidson
An overview of Davidson's life and philosophy.
Ontology in the Theory of Meaning
A Davidson inspired argument against the utility of meanings in the theory of meaning.
Radical Misinterpretation: Reply to Stoutland
Correcting misunderstandings of Davidson and the book in a review by Fred Stoutland.
De Re Necessities
Deflationary semantics for modal statements with special attention to de re modal statements in a truth-theoretic framework. We won't be discussing this in the seminar.
Triangulation Triangulated
Takes a critical look at the appeal to triangulation in Davidson's later work to solve the problem of finding an objective ground for the object of thought.
The Problem with Radical Interpretation: replies to Evnine and Rawling
See pp. 139 ff. Replies to some commentary on the book focusing on the problem with radical interpretation.
Truth and Meaning Redux: Reply to Soames
A response to Soames's 2008 "Truth and Meaning: In Perspective" in which he argues Davidson's program has run its course.
Sententialism and Higher-order Attitude Attributions
A response to the higher-order attitude objection to sententialism that charges that the propositionalist has the same problem and the same moves are open to both approaches.
Review of volumes 3-5 of Davidson's collected papers
Review in Mind of Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective, Problems of Rationality, and Truth, Language and History.
Singular Thought and the Cartesian Theory of Mind
Defends, inter alia, the view that 'I am hungry' as used by me expresses the same proposition as 'Ludwig is hungry' despite our resistance to substituting in certain attitude contexts.

02/13/2010

This is just to say that I have it in mind to address a number of issues that came up in discussion over the week in posts, but have not had the time to do so yet. So if you want to you can check back in about a week for more follow up. I'll leave the site up also, and I am planning on posting at least a few pictures from the seminar, in particular the group pictures at the end.

Thanks so much to everyone who participated. I enjoyed everything, even the snow.

Posted by Kirk Ludwig on 02/13/2010 at 04:46 PM | Permalink

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TMD Handouts

Handout #1
The Role of a Truth Theory in a Meaning Theory
Handout #2
Objections and Challenges to Truth-theoretic Semantics Met
Handout #3
What is Radical Interpretation?
Handout #4
The Impossibility of Radical Interpretation
Handout #5
Metaphysics and Epistemology: radically different conceptual schemes, impossibility of massive error, first person authority, inscrutability of reference.
Handout #6
Are There Any A Priori Arguments for Radical Interpretation?

Truth and Meaning in Davidson

Kompaktseminar, Heidelberg, February 8-12, 2010

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02/13/2010