| Conventionalism, Objectivity and Constitution |
| Henry Jackman |
| Presented at the 2000 Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, May 2000. |
| Area 1 Philosophy of Language |
| Area 2 Epistemology |
| Keywords Haugeland Charity Rationality Normativity |
| http://www.yorku.ca/hjackman/papers/Haugeland.pdf |
| John Haugeland has recently attempted to provide a naturalistic account of intentionality that explains how we can (collectively) misidentify objects in the world in terms of the interplay of two types of 'recognitional' skill. Nevertheless, it is argued here that his inegalitarian conception of the two sorts of skill leaves him with a quasi-conventionalist account of our relation to the world which lacks the more robust sort of objectivity that a more holistic theory could provide. |
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