La contingencia del yo epistemológico en el debate Davidson�Rorty
ISSN: 2011-8643
Argitalpen urtea: 2007
Alea: 1
Zenbakia: 2
Orrialdeak: 377-391
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: Magistro
Laburpena
The article presents the relation between the contingency of language and the contingency of the epistemological self. To accept that language is a medium that neither represents reality nor expresses the interiority of the speaker implies a reconsideration of the concept of rationality and therefore of philosophical work. The disabling of the epistemological subject as a nucleus of conscience that represents reality is in accordance with a notion of language where it is not the new medium that separates subject and object. The contingency of language holds, with Wittgenstein, that language is a tool box, and Donald Davidson�s notion of metaphor may be counted as a tool. First, the davidsonian reconstruction of metaphor is presented, and afterwards discourse is centered on the disabling of the epistemological subject.