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http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-675
Autoren: | Roskies, Adina |
Titel: | Davidson on believers : can non-linguistic creatures have propositional attitudes? |
Online-Publikationsdatum: | 31-Okt-2016 |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
Sprache des Dokuments: | Englisch |
Zusammenfassung/Abstract: | Donald Davidson has argued that only language-users can have propositional attitudes. His strongest argument in support of this claim is one that links having propositional attitudes to language via a concept of belief. Here I consider various possible interpretations of this argument, looking first at the canonical conception of a concept of belief from the Theory of Mind literature, then at a weaker notion of the concept of belief corresponding to a conception of objective reality, and finally at an intermediate notion involving the ability to attribute mental states. I argue that under each of these various interpretations, analysis and appeal to empirical evidence from developmental and comparative psychology shows the Davidsonian argument to be unsound. Only on a reading of the argument that slides between different interpretations of “concept of belief” are all the premises true, but in that case the argument is invalid. I conclude that Davidson doesn’t provide sufficient reason to deny that non-linguistic creatures can have propositional attitudes. |
DDC-Sachgruppe: | 100 Philosophie 100 Philosophy |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Organisationseinheit: | FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie |
Veröffentlichungsort: | Mainz |
ROR: | https://ror.org/023b0x485 |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-675 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-550543 |
Version: | Published version |
Publikationstyp: | Buchbeitrag |
Nutzungsrechte: | Urheberrechtsschutz |
Informationen zu den Nutzungsrechten: | https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Quelle: | Open MIND Metzinger, Thomas |
Seitenzahl oder Artikelnummer: | Kap. 33(T) |
Verlag: | MIND Group |
Verlagsort: | Frankfurt am Main |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
URL der Originalveröffentlichung: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15502/9783958570337 |
DOI der Originalveröffentlichung: | 10.15502/9783958570337 |
Enthalten in den Sammlungen: | JGU-Publikationen |
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