Davidson and Sellars on Animal Minds: Rationality and Normativity
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Davidson and Sellars on Animal Minds: Rationality and Normativity
Original language description
An overriding aim of Davidson and Sellars is to find an appropriate place for human beings in what Sellars calls the scientific image of the world. An illuminating way in which they do so is to distinguish us from other animals on the assumption that we but not they are lingual. They agree that in its rational and normative character, the use of language goes a long way in defining what it is to have a mind. At this point, they part company. Davidson contends that rationality is presupposed by an interpretation of behavior which grounds the attribution of propositionally contentful mental states to other humans when they speak/gesture. He is deeply skeptical that animal behavior can be so interpreted. Sellars contends that rationality should not be associated with such states but with a capacity to use logic which other animals lack. That is, he is willing to attribute a degree of rationality, and with it mind, to other animals in a way that Davidson is not. The thesis of this essay is that both philosophers suggest ways in which the attribution of mindedness (and perhaps rationality) to alingual animals can be justified.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Sellars and Davidson in Dialogue: Truths, Meanings, and Minds
ISBN
978-1-00-348522-3
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
247-266
Number of pages of the book
332
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
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