Davidsonian Coherentism

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• causal link between experience and belief

• only beliefs can stand in normative relations to other beliefs

• irreducible role of interpretation in determining mental states of others — but ultimately have token-token identity between mental and physical states — role of inference to the best explanation

• From Putnam’s paper in Reading McDowell: “if our beliefs lack rational connections to experiences - if experiences are only causes of those beliefs, and not also justifiers - then it is impossible to see how our beliefs have empirical content at all.”

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Seminar Paper

Chris Wilcox