Ideas from 'Davidson on himself' by Donald Davidson [1994], by Theme Structure

[found in 'A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind' (ed/tr Guttenplan,Samuel) [Blackwell 1995,0-631-19996-9]].

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity

3972	Truth and objectivity depend on a community of speakers to interpret what they mean

3969	There are no ultimate standards of rationality, since we only assess others by our own standard

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / a. Mind

3960	There are no such things as minds, but people have mental properties

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 1. Reductionism critique

3964	If the mind is an anomaly, this makes reduction of the mental to the physical impossible

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 2. Anomalous Monism

3961	Obviously all mental events are causally related to physical events

3963	There are no strict psychophysical laws connecting mental and physical events

3965	Mental entities do not add to the physical furniture of the world

17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 3. Property Dualism

3966	The correct conclusion is ontological monism combined with conceptual dualism

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality

3967	Absence of all rationality would be absence of thought

18. Thought / C. Content / 6. Broad Content

3974	Our meanings are partly fixed by events of which we may be ignorant

19. Language / D. Propositions / 6. Propositions Critique

3968	Propositions explain nothing without an explanation of how sentences manage to name them

19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language

3970	Thought is only fully developed if we communicate with others

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

3971	There is simply no alternative to the 'principle of charity' in interpreting what others do

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching

3973	Without a teacher, the concept of 'getting things right or wrong' is meaningless

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation

3962	Cause and effect relations between events must follow strict laws