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The essential Davidson / Donald Davidson ; with an introduction by Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. 2006
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Act (Philosophy).
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume compiles the most celebrated papers of Donald Davidson, one of the 20th century's greatest philosophers. There are essays about our understanding of language, the mind, action, and knowledge, which are thematically organised.
- Contents:
- Actions, reasons, and causes (1963)
- The logical form of action sentences (with comments, criticism and defense) (1967)
- How is weakness of the will possible? (1969)
- Individuation of events (1969)
- Mental events (1970) ; Appendix : Emeroses by other names (1966)
- Intending (1978)
- Paradoxes of irrationality (1982)
- Truth and meaning (1967)
- On saying that (1968)
- Radical interpretation (1973)
- On the very idea of a conceptual scheme (1974)
- What metaphors mean (1978)
- A coherence theory of truth and knowledge (1983) ; Appendix : Afterthoughts (1987)
- First person authority (1984)
- A nice derangement of epitaphs (1986).
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-04356-6
- 1-281-15466-0
- 9786611154660
- 0-19-153721-7
- 1-4294-3085-0
- OCLC:
- 476260136
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