Since I don’t see you mention it here, a reasonable solution to the meaninglessness of a view from nowhere yet still finding it useful is to replace it with intersubjectivity: an abstracted view of reality that aggregates over reports of many subjective experiences. For many purposes the intersubjective and objective views are functionality the same, hence you end up with people defending the metaphysics of objectivity even though they don’t make sense because they don’t have the handle for intersubjectivity they would need not make unusual metaphysical claims.
I think Intersubjectivity is the right direction, the detail is in how to aggregates multiple subjective experiences. I suppose the only way is to find the reports that are common to all subjectives being considered. So objectivity becomes all things that can be inter-perspectively tested. And yes, for almost all purposes the inter-perspective objectivity and view-from-nowhere objectivity function the same. That’s why we typically don’t pay attention to it. And in cases they do matter we end up in debates and paradoxes.
Since I don’t see you mention it here, a reasonable solution to the meaninglessness of a view from nowhere yet still finding it useful is to replace it with intersubjectivity: an abstracted view of reality that aggregates over reports of many subjective experiences. For many purposes the intersubjective and objective views are functionality the same, hence you end up with people defending the metaphysics of objectivity even though they don’t make sense because they don’t have the handle for intersubjectivity they would need not make unusual metaphysical claims.
I think Intersubjectivity is the right direction, the detail is in how to aggregates multiple subjective experiences. I suppose the only way is to find the reports that are common to all subjectives being considered. So objectivity becomes all things that can be inter-perspectively tested. And yes, for almost all purposes the inter-perspective objectivity and view-from-nowhere objectivity function the same. That’s why we typically don’t pay attention to it. And in cases they do matter we end up in debates and paradoxes.