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Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig

Print publication date: 2005

Print ISBN-13: 9780199251346

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2005

DOI: 10.1093/0199251347.001.0001

First Person Authority 265

Chapter:
(p. 343 ) 20 First Person Authority 265
Source:
Donald Davidson
Author(s):

Ernie Lepore (Contributor Webpage)

Kirk Ludwig (Contributor Webpage)

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0199251347.003.0022

Takes up the question whether an account of meaning and the propositional attitudes that takes the third person standpoint of the radical interpreter as methodologically and conceptually basic can accommodate our special epistemic position with respect to our own thoughts. Examines Davidson’s most extended argument for this in ’First Person Authority’ and concludes that the argument falls short of explaining the relevant asymmetry in the knowledge one has of one’s own thoughts and the knowledge that other people do.

Keywords:   asymmetry of warrant, First Person Authority, self-knowledge, third person standpoint

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