戴维森与先验论证问题

Davidson and the Problem of Transcendental Arguments

戴维森是后分析哲学时代最为重要的哲学家之一,他应用了一种语言学版本的先验论证。一般而言,先验论证力图阐明一般性的经验条件和经验命题或事件之间的先天关系,它往往以图式/内容二元论为基础。戴维森的先验论证则建立在一个完全不同的基础之上,它诉诸于其解释理论,以消除这种二元论为己任,力图在一致性论题(主观性)与真(客观性)、一致与符合之间建立先天连结。戴维森的先验论证同样也可以是一种驳斥怀疑论的方法,例如其著名的全知解释者论证。

Donald Davidson is one of the most important philosophers in the post-analytical philosophy time, and he adopts a linguistic version of transcendental argument. In general, a transcendental argument attempts to expose the priori link between general conditions of experience and empirical propositions or affairs, and it is often based on the scheme/content dualism. However, Davidson＇s transcendental arguments have completely different basis. It appeals to his theory of interpretation and commits to eliminating this kind of dualism, attempting to establish a priori link between agreement thesis （subjectivity） and truth （objectivity）, coherence and correspondence. Davidson＇s omniscient interpreter argument （OIA） is a transcendental argument as a kind of method refuting skepticism.