Chapter The Notion of Rationality in Donald Davidson

Rationality in Donald Davidson is manifested in acting, speaking and interpreting. Rationality in this sense has two aspects: logical or linguistic and externalist or causal. The first aspect of rationality is expressed byDavidsonian Principle of Coherence, which says that every rational creature ha...

Celý popis

Uloženo v:
Podrobná bibliografie
Hlavní autor: Maciaszek, Janusz
Médium: Online
Jazyk:polština
Vydáno: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 2025
On-line přístup:ONIX_20250307_9788382200355_793
Tagy: Přidat tag
Žádné tagy, Buďte první, kdo vytvoří štítek k tomuto záznamu!
_version_ 1869529854393712640
author Maciaszek, Janusz
author_browse Maciaszek, Janusz
author_facet Maciaszek, Janusz
author_sort Maciaszek, Janusz
collection Directory of Open Access Books
description Rationality in Donald Davidson is manifested in acting, speaking and interpreting. Rationality in this sense has two aspects: logical or linguistic and externalist or causal. The first aspect of rationality is expressed byDavidsonian Principle of Coherence, which says that every rational creature has relatively coherent net of propositional attitudes. The principle is used in the process of interpreting human utterances and actions, when the interpreter ascribes propositional attitudes to a speaker or to an agent. The second aspect of rationality is connected with causal history of language acquisition and is expressed by the Principle of Correspondence. As uttered words and human actions are causal effects of events in the external world, a rational creature, i.e. a creature possessing a verbalized knowledge of the world, a first-person knowledge of its propositional attitudes, and a third-person knowledge of propositional attitudes of other rational creatures, must have undergone a causal process of interactions with the reality and other rational creatures. Davidson called this process a “triangulation”.
format Online
id doab-20.500.12854ir-155368
institution Directory of Open Access Books
language pol
publishDate 2025
publishDateRange 2025
publishDateSort 2025
publisher Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
publisherStr Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
record_format ojs
spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1553682025-03-07T14:10:41Z Chapter The Notion of Rationality in Donald Davidson Maciaszek, Janusz Rationality in Donald Davidson is manifested in acting, speaking and interpreting. Rationality in this sense has two aspects: logical or linguistic and externalist or causal. The first aspect of rationality is expressed byDavidsonian Principle of Coherence, which says that every rational creature has relatively coherent net of propositional attitudes. The principle is used in the process of interpreting human utterances and actions, when the interpreter ascribes propositional attitudes to a speaker or to an agent. The second aspect of rationality is connected with causal history of language acquisition and is expressed by the Principle of Correspondence. As uttered words and human actions are causal effects of events in the external world, a rational creature, i.e. a creature possessing a verbalized knowledge of the world, a first-person knowledge of its propositional attitudes, and a third-person knowledge of propositional attitudes of other rational creatures, must have undergone a causal process of interactions with the reality and other rational creatures. Davidson called this process a “triangulation”. 2025-03-07T14:10:40Z 2025-03-07T14:10:40Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788382200355_793 9788382200355 9788382200348 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/155368 pol image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/213 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8220-034-8.18 Rationality in Donald Davidson is manifested in acting, speaking and interpreting. Rationality in this sense has two aspects: logical or linguistic and externalist or causal. The first aspect of rationality is expressed byDavidsonian Principle of Coherence, which says that every rational creature has relatively coherent net of propositional attitudes. The principle is used in the process of interpreting human utterances and actions, when the interpreter ascribes propositional attitudes to a speaker or to an agent. The second aspect of rationality is connected with causal history of language acquisition and is expressed by the Principle of Correspondence. As uttered words and human actions are causal effects of events in the external world, a rational creature, i.e. a creature possessing a verbalized knowledge of the world, a first-person knowledge of its propositional attitudes, and a third-person knowledge of propositional attitudes of other rational creatures, must have undergone a causal process of interactions with the reality and other rational creatures. Davidson called this process a “triangulation”. 10.18778/8220-034-8.18 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788382200355 9788382200348 273-288 open access
spellingShingle Maciaszek, Janusz
Chapter The Notion of Rationality in Donald Davidson
title Chapter The Notion of Rationality in Donald Davidson
title_full Chapter The Notion of Rationality in Donald Davidson
title_fullStr Chapter The Notion of Rationality in Donald Davidson
title_full_unstemmed Chapter The Notion of Rationality in Donald Davidson
title_short Chapter The Notion of Rationality in Donald Davidson
title_sort chapter the notion of rationality in donald davidson
url ONIX_20250307_9788382200355_793
work_keys_str_mv AT maciaszekjanusz chapterthenotionofrationalityindonalddavidson