Davidson’s “Three Varieties of Knowledge”

Here is an on-line copy of Donald Davidson’s remarkable 1991 essay “Three Varieties of Knowledge”. As far as contemporary philosophical essays go, it is perhaps the finest, far-reaching essay in my memory. In terms of style it employs a jargon-free, clear language approach reminiscent of Wittgenstein’s straightforward  problem solving (without the hypnotic aphoristic gloss over of aporias). In terms [...]

The Trick of Dogs: Etiologic, Affection and Triangulation, Part I of IV

[Part II here] Intentions: Deceiving Dogs, and Pretentious Infants …and so it seems that, even though they themselves cannot know, they nonetheless wish to be known.  Augustine, The City of God against the Pagans, Book XI, chapter 27             The purposeof this study is to investigate the possible connections between Wittgenstein’s [...]