The Davidsonian theory of akrasia

Abstract

Davidson's treatment of akrasia resorts to the introduction of a type of operator, the prima facie connector. This operator should yield conditional judgments in which the affirmation of the antecedent does not admit to obtain the consequent as a separate conclusion; and it must allow to separate the consequent in order to obtain the non-conditional judgment. In this article I intend to show the reasons which led Davidson to propose this particular operator and then I intend to develop an interpretation of the operator which satisfies the two requirements aforementioned.