Davidson on Epistemic Norms
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Davidson’s philosophy can, in an important sense, be characterised as a form of normativism, the view that the mind has essential normative properties. But what is exactly the form of normativism that Davidson defends? In the first place, the norms of the mental, which are the norms of rationality in interpretation, do not have any normative force: they do not have any power of prescribing us how we ought to act or to believe. In the second place they lack specificity: they do not allow us to make the distinctions that we need. I try to suggest a stronger and more fine grained conception of epistemic norms.
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