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Title: Dept Sem: Paul Livingston
Title: Heidegger, Davidson, Tugendhat and Truth
Abstract:
In this paper, I consider the relationship of Heidegger’s theory of truth
as aletheia or “unconcealment” to the propositional theories of truth
developed within the analytic tradition by Wittgenstein, Tarski, and
Davidson. I argue that the classic critique of Heidegger’s conception of
truth developed by Ernst Tugendhat in the 1960s still poses deep and
foundational problems for Heidegger’s account, and that these problems turn
largely on the contrast between Heidegger’s disclosive understanding of
truth and the propositional (but non-correspondence) conception
characteristic of much of the analytic tradition. In a recent book, Mark
Wrathall reconstructs Heidegger’s theory of truth and argues that it can be
seen as paralleling Davidson’s account of truth in that it identifies
social practices as the ultimate foundation of truth; I argue, however,
that because of the problems Tugendhat finds in Heidegger’s account these
alleged parallels cannot succeed. In the final section, I consider the
possibility of accommodating at least some of what Heidegger says about
practices and comportment within a broadly Davidsonian picture and conclude
that, although such a picture would necessarily involve important
modifications in Heidegger’s theory of truth, the most important elements
of his underlying fundamental-ontological project could nevertheless be
preserved.
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