Indeterminism and Antirealism

Abstract

Abstract Gives an insight into the richness of Davidson's contributions to the realism–anti‐realism debate, here with regards to the factuality of propositional‐attitude talk. Davidson argues that anti‐realism is best understood in epistemological terms, as a stance that commits ontologically in the light of what can be known. He concludes that, generally, one should not have anti‐realist attitudes as understood here towards propositional attitudes and, in particular, argues that one does not have to give up belief in first‐person authority, even if one accepts Quine's indeterminacy thesis.