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15Helge Svare: «Livet er en reise» – Metaforer i filosofi, vitenskap og dagliglivNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 38 (3): 241-245. 2003.
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1Interpretasjon og førstepersonsautoritet. Kan oppriktige selvtilskrivelser av ønsker og oppfatninger være feilaktige?Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 45 (2): 94-106. 2010.The presumption of first-person authority suggests that social scientists might take an informants sincere self-ascriptions at face value. However, in cases involving irrational belief-formation or akrasia, it might be difficult to square an informants sincere self-ascriptions with observations of his conduct, casting doubts about their accuracy or correctness. This paper discusses the scope and role played by first-person authority in interpretation, offers an account of when, and why, counte…Read more
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Triangulation, Interpretation, and First-Person Authority: An Essay on the Philosophy of Donald DavidsonDissertation, University of Miami. 2002.This dissertation provides an interpretation and assessment of Donald Davidson's work on first-person authority. First-person authority is the thesis that subjects have a privileged non-evidence-based form of epistemic warrant for self-ascriptions of psychological concepts that does not attach to third-person evidence-based ascriptions of the same concepts. Davidson thinks the fact that we do have first-person authority over self-ascriptions of psychological concepts gives rise to two connected …Read more
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32Interpretivism, First-Person Authority, and ConfabulationPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 47 (4-5): 311-329. 2017.Psychological experiments allegedly show that people have a tendency to confabulate explanations of their behavior, because their conscious selves do not know why they do what they do, and therefore create the explanations that make most sense. This article explains why confabulation is neither a threat to interpretivist social science nor a threat to the presumption of first-person authority in Davidson’s interpretation theory. The reason is that the interpretative endeavor, which is necessary …Read more
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366Davidsons forklaring på førstepersons autoritetNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 39 (1-2): 120-136. 2004.
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7In An Interpretation and Assessment of First-Person Authority in the Writings of Philosopher Donald Davidson, first-person authority is the thesis that subjects have a non-evidence-based form of epistemic warrant for self-ascriptions of psychological concepts that does not attach to a third-person evidence-based ascriptions of the same concepts.
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