The Central Role of Rationalism in Davidson's Philosophy
Within the domain of language philosophy and beyond,Davidson and Quine converge on seemingly identical conclusions regarding certain queries.Yet,the philosophical underpinnings di-verging beneath these consensual outcomes warrant meticulous attention.It emerges that Davidson's philosophical stance is fundamentally rooted in rationalism,guiding his inquiry into language compre-hension from a rationalist perspective.Thus,constructs such as the Tarskian truth theory as a semantic model for natural language,alongside notions seemingly in alignment with Quine—holism and the prin-ciple of charity—are to be interpreted through the lens of rational principles rather than as empirical heu-ristic principles in Quine's context.Importantly Davidson's philosophy,as a form of rationalism,is not entirely traditional.It emphasizes the shared causal environment among speakers,highlights exter-nal objects as the content of statements and beliefs,and integrates this externalism of language and cog-nition into the system of rationalism,thereby avoiding some of the difficulties of traditional rationalism.
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