Abstract

DUICA, William. Triangulation and Objective Content. Diánoia [online]. 2017, vol.62, n.78, pp.27-46. ISSN 0185-2450.

In this paper I examine one of McDowell’s arguments against Davidson on the fixation of representational content. In the first part, I expose McDowell’s analysis according to which we can leave aside the context of triangulation when explaining how the content of perception is responsible to the objective world. In the second part, I discuss this analysis and I develop an answer that (although davidsonian in spirit) introduces a couple of elements: the distinction between interdependence and complementarity (of objective, subjective and intersubjective) and the account of what I call linguistically-conditioned triangulation.

Keywords : perception; complementarity; epistemology; interdependence; linguistic-conditioned triangulation.