The Dummett Interview, part one of two (a)

[blackphilosopher1]

R.I.P. His writings might be untoward in their style, but always rife with insight. He was an extremely searching thinker. A great loss to Oxford philosophy and analytic philosophy generally. This is an interesting back and forth between Davidson and Dummett as well. Thanks for uploading! (A good place to look at some of Dummett's specific criticisms of Davidson is in his "What is a Theory of Meaning (II)", if anyone hasn't already)

[majaymohan]

thanks a lot. And looking forward for the video

[MatchDancer]

I was looking for this for ages, so thought I'd post the reference:

Davidson starts talking about the principle of bivalence in (f) at around 8.20.

[cornutus11]

thumbs up!

[Peterh588]

I wish the narrator would shut up and let the men speak for themselves.

[nibus9]

philosophers experience complexities in expressing their own ideas ! they dont talk fast and show atleast a slight feeling of inconfidence while expressing their ideas and opinions ! thats the biggest indicator of the above fact !! *** theories ....theories....theories......­ever and ever !!

[CF127]

Sean Hannity stole all of his ideas from Donald Davidson.

[raffen79]

Aaarggh! You're crazy, Dummett! Quit smoking and quit being an anti-realist. Respect the principle of bivalence, you madman!

[saerit9]

Listen- if you accept the manifestation principle, then you've got to reject bivalence as a general property of sentences. It's not that no class of sentences is bivalent, but rather that bivalence is not general. You can get this result otherwise than by adopting intuitionism, too-- i.e. noncognitivism about anything, for instance + correspondence theory of truth. It's really not so big a leap to deny bivalence.

[OldschoolMetalDeath]

@raffen79 What about intuitionism? What if you take the underlying logic of natural language to be non-classical?

[ukdrummergirl]

thanks for putting this up. excellent!

[sssswwwsssss]

Glad you got something from it.

[randyhelzerman]

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[sssswwwsssss]

Good on you, Randy.