Donald Davidson on truth, meaning, and the mental /

A reappraisal of Donald Davidson's influential philosophy of thought, meaning, and action. Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of themes and problems relating to these subjects, and engage in particular with Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig's...

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Other Authors: Preyer, Gerhard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Davidson's contribution to the philosophy of language / Gilbert Harman
  • Truth theories, competence, and semantic computation / Peter Pagin
  • Davidson's explication of meaning / Gary Ebbs
  • Against logical form / Zoltán Gendler Szabó
  • A truth predicate in the object language / William G. Lycan
  • Swampman, response-dependence, and meaning / Nathaniel Goldberg
  • Knowledge and error : a new approach to radical interpretation / Olav Gjelsvik
  • Perception and intermediaries / Kathrin Glüer
  • On Davidson's view of first-person authority / Bruce Aune
  • Davidson, first-person authority, and the evidence for semantics / Steven Gross
  • Davidsonian holism in recent philosophy of psychiatry / Marga Reimer
  • Taking back the excitement : construing "theoretical concepts" so as to avoid the threat of underdetermination / Richard N. Manning.