Davidsonian Pragmatism
Donald Davidson didnāt like being called a pragmatist. He associated pragmatism with William Jamesās definition of truth as that what works (or something similar), which he rejected for a number of reasons. Davidsonās understanding of pragmatism and how it contrasts with his own view is probably most clearly expressed in a passage from āTruth Rehabilitatedā: Truth is not a value, so the āpursuit of truthā is an empty enterprise unless it means only that it is often worthwhile to increase our confidence in our beliefs, by collecting further evidence or checking our calculations. From the fact that we will never...
Atrekic Buddhism
To be clear, atrekic Buddhism is not a variety of Buddhism. Itās not un-Buddhist either, I think, but weāll get to that later. The term āatrekic Buddhismā works in a similar way as āmethodological anarchismā (famously proposed by Feyerabend) or āmetaphilosophical anarchismā. The latter is a ā more or less ā anarchist approach to doing philosophy. It isnāt anarchism per sĆ© (i.e., anarchism as political ideology), but can be thought of as something like anarchism about philosophy. That said, it could be argued that (political) anarchists should also be metaphilosophical anarchists (but not necessarily the other way around), which doesnāt...