1. First Person Authority

Author: Davidson, Donald

Source: Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective, September 2001 , pp. 3-15(13)

Publisher: Oxford Scholarship Online Monographs

Key:

- Free Content

- New Content

- Subscribed Content

- Free Trial Content

Abstract:

Attempts to explain the assumption that a speaker's sincere self-attribution of propositional attitudes is justified, while such justification is lacking if the attribution is done by somebody else. By tracing the source of first-person authority, the justification of such self-attribution, to a necessary feature of language, Davidson offers both an original solution to the authority-problem and an escape from sceptical solutions to the problem of other minds.

Keywords: justification; scepticism; problem of other minds; propositional attitudes; language; necessary features of language; first-person authority

Document Type: Research article

This article is hosted on another website.

You may be required to register, activate a subscription or purchase the article before you can obtain the full text.

Proceed