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    Paper   IPM / Philosophy / 8083
       School of Analytic Philosophy
      Title: Charity, supervenience and skepticism
      Author(s): H. Vahid
      Status: Published
      Journal: Metaphilosophy
      Vol.: 32
      Year: 2001
      Pages: 308
      Supported by: IPM
      Abstract:
    In a number of articles Donald Davidson has argued that the charitable nature of his method of radical interpretation rules out the possibility of massive error, and, thus, refutes Cartesian skepticism. The diversity of such arguments and the suggestions that are all being made under the name of the principle of charity have prompted a large body of conflicting responses, adding only to the obscurity of the issues that are generally associated with the question of skepticism. In this paper I propose to consider the debate in a new light by reconstruing the principle of charity as a supervenience constraint on belief attribution. This would help explain some of the puzzling features of Davidson?s arguments, like the idea of an omniscient interpreter, and the ensuing commentaries. Having provided an analysis of the limitations of Davidson?s arguments, I shall then suggest an alternative explanation of the purported necessity of the principle of charity. Finally, I shall examine the consequences of seeing the principle of charity as a supervenience constraint for the logical status of the principle itself and its alleged epistemic potentials.

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