Episode 191: Conceptual Schemes: Donald Davidson & Rudolf Carnap (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 28 May 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On Davidson's "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" (1974) and Carnap's "Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology" (1950).
What does it mean to say that we grasp the world through a conceptual scheme? Are schemes different between cultures or even individuals, such that we can't really understand each other? Davidson thinks that this doesn't make sense.
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| 0:16.3 | You're listening to the partially examined life. |
| 0:18.0 | You podcast by some guys who are at one point said I'm doing philosophy for living, |
| 0:21.3 | but then thought better of it. |
| 0:22.3 | Our question for episode 191 is something like, |
| 0:25.5 | what does it mean to claim that we grasp the world through a conceptual scheme? |
| 0:29.1 | And we read on the very idea of a conceptual scheme by Donald Davidson from 1973 |
| 0:35.2 | and empiricism, semantics, and ontology by Rudolph Karnap from 1950. |
| 0:40.4 | For more information, please check out partiallyxamonlife.com. |
| 0:43.2 | This is Mark Linson-Mire, |
| 0:44.4 | beyond the possibility of literal translation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:47.9 | This is Wes Lone in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:51.6 | This is Dylan Casey indulging in metaphysical pseudo-statements in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:57.3 | And this is Dusty Dome in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1:00.4 | Welcome back, Dusty. |
| 1:01.7 | Thanks for having me back. |
| 1:02.9 | From our Chicago Analytic Philosophy, Guess It Chapter. |
| 1:07.1 | Right, along with that. |
| 1:08.6 | The Matt Teckman. |
| 1:10.2 | Folks will recall Dusty from our Wilfred Sellers episode, our most popular episode yet. |
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