Donald Davidson on truth, meaning, and the mental / edited by Gerhard Preyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Preyer, Gerhard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003.

Davidson, Donald.

Truth.

Meaning (Philosophy).

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 290 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 interpretation of Davidson's thought.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-283-65840-2

0-19-165483-3

OCLC:

922971364