Lexicon of Arguments

 

Rorty VI 165
Brain/Davidson/Rorty: cannot lose contact with the outside world. It is irrelevant whether it is a brain in a vat! This is also true for the mind: it must always be connected to something. That cannot be negated by a mentalist redescription. >Brains in a vat.
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Davidson I 8
Def externalism: events and objects that create a conviction determine at the same time the content of this conviction. This is not the thought that nature ensures that our simple judgments are always correct, but that the causal history of such judgments provides a constitutive characteristic of their content. >Externalism.
I 84 ff
Mind/subjective/objective/objectivity/subjectivity/world/reality/Davidson: old theme: the relations between the human mind and the rest of nature, between the subjective and the objective.
Consciousness/Davidson: exists in the plural; nature only in the singular. That everyone has his point of view in the world is a harmless relativism, because it refers to a coordinate system, just the one nature. >Objectivity, >Subjectivity.
I 85
Concept relativism/Davidson: has it harder because the common coordinate system is not so easy to identify. >Reference systems.