Donald Davidson Interview: Language, Interpretation, & Philosophy (1993)

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  • Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2024

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  • @TheNeverposts
    @TheNeverposts 2 года назад +13

    ghost of christmas past in the background

  • @darrellee8194
    @darrellee8194 5 месяцев назад +1

    I love the wind behind the interview.
    LoL. I just noticed that half of the other comments are about the sound effects as well 😅

  • @TheScottTubes
    @TheScottTubes Год назад +7

    Davidson, with the possible exception of Grice, is the only Philosopher whose work seriously includes the fact that human knowledge is communal. So many of our epistemological questions, from the most facile "how do I know my red is your red" to some of those most serious, seem almost to disappear when you include triangulation in an understanding of knowledge.

    • @hss12661
      @hss12661 Год назад +1

      You seem to know very little about Grice or about Davidson. They have almost nothing in common. And Davidson as an externalist and as a pragmatist has many allies among, most notably, the German idealists, American pragmatists, Quine, Putnam, Rorty, Dummett, Lorenzen, Brandom, Sellars, Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas etc.

    • @andrewf5210
      @andrewf5210 11 месяцев назад +1

      I'm hardpressed to identify a philosopher who doesn't think knowledge is communal. Foucault: all consciousness is social, for instance.

  • @warwolt
    @warwolt 2 года назад +9

    Excellent Interview, but was it recorded in the attic of an abandoned mansion?

  • @arlieferguson7442
    @arlieferguson7442 9 месяцев назад +1

    The discussion of anti-foundationalism and the stuff that gets past the biographical information begins at 17:45.

  • @ReynaSingh
    @ReynaSingh 2 года назад +6

    Language only exists through us so it only exists as an idea not a thing. More accurate to consider language as metaphorical as opposed to concrete

    • @blairhakamies4132
      @blairhakamies4132 2 года назад

      So beautifully put. 🌹

    • @ovrava
      @ovrava 2 года назад +2

      I dont think "metaphorical" is the right word there

    • @tarnopol
      @tarnopol 2 года назад +1

      Language is a feature of a biological organism. It has an obvious material basis, though that hasn't been worked out, of course. Figuring that system out, which is hard, is the obvious way forward, not woo-woo romanticisms. :) Having said that, I wouldn't argue that any given utterance is biologically determined: the interesting thing is that it's a biological system with finite limits of all kinds that through recursion creates a literal infinity of individual uses/utterances. Check out some of Chomsky and others in the biolinguistics field.
      And none of *that* has a thing to say about creativity in writing. Creativity, period, is a bit of a mystery, as it immediately touches on free will vs determinism, which not only no one can really answer (no matter what anyone says) but also is probably the wrong dichotomy to begin with.

    • @tarnopol
      @tarnopol 2 года назад

      @@tunneling-nanotubes Yes, and I don’t think considering language itself as a metaphor as opposed to a biological capacity (a thing) is consistent with what I said.

    • @andrewf5210
      @andrewf5210 11 месяцев назад +1

      Langue is very real. It at once imprisons us by its limitations and frees us because of its possibilities.

  • @ghamessmona
    @ghamessmona Год назад +2

    ❤❤🙏❤️❤️

  • @EileenFlores
    @EileenFlores Год назад +2

    What is that awful ghostly sound in the background?

  • @drbonesshow1
    @drbonesshow1 2 года назад

    Knowing One's Mind sounds like the script for the movie Total Recall.

  • @martinkennedy2400
    @martinkennedy2400 2 года назад

    ...what a poor first question

  • @drbonesshow1
    @drbonesshow1 2 года назад

    What was the question? That's the question asked by many good (i.e., shady) politicians. Good at being shady.

  • @davetaitt1528
    @davetaitt1528 2 года назад

    He's right, there is no language in that sense. But there is music. And language is made of music.

    • @ovrava
      @ovrava 2 года назад +2

      There is certainly a Relation between music and language. But that Relation is not that of composition.

    • @davetaitt1528
      @davetaitt1528 2 года назад

      @@ovrava it certainly is. I can hear a lie in someone's voice.

    • @davetaitt1528
      @davetaitt1528 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/ZOse6ULikl4/видео.html

  • @inthemomenttomoment
    @inthemomenttomoment 2 года назад +1

    Philosophy is not complete without Empathy that brings US True Ethics. "Philosophy' is more philosophically like, "Feel-Our-Sophie". Now Feel IT!

  • @drbonesshow1
    @drbonesshow1 2 года назад

    I have a hard time writing a check for an overly expensive meal.

  • @drbonesshow1
    @drbonesshow1 2 года назад

    The masochist says to the sadist: Beat me, beat me. To which the sadist replies: No, no...

  • @logos3522
    @logos3522 10 месяцев назад

    Not a philosopher