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Donald Davidson : meaning, truth, language, and reality / Ernie Lepore, Kirk Ludwig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LePore, Ernest, 1950- author.
- Ludwig, Kirk, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003.
- Davidson, Donald.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 446 pages)
- Other Title:
- Meaning, truth, language, and reality
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig present this critical exposition of the philosophical system of Donald Davidson (1917-2003). Davidson's ideas had a deep and broad influence in the central areas of philosophy; he presented them in essays over four decades.
- Contents:
- I: Historical introduction to truth-theoretic semantics
- Learnable languages and the compositionality requirement
- The form of a meaning theory and difficulties for traditional approaches
- The introduction of a truth theory as the vehicle of a meaning theory
- A closed form recursive definition of 'true₀'
- Truth and context sensitivity
- Formulating a truth theory for natural languages which predicates truth of utterances of sentences
- Davidson's extensionalist proposal
- The extensionality and determination problems
- Foster's objection
- Relation to an explicit meaning theory and to semantic competence
- The problem of semantic defects in natural languages
- Summary of part I
- II: Radical interpretation
- Clarifying the project
- The procedure of the radical interpreter
- The justification of the principle of charity
- The theory of agency and additional constraints
- Indeterminacy
- Development of a unified theory of meaning and action
- The reality of language
- Summary of part II
- III: Metaphysics and epistemology
- The impossibility of alternative conceptual schemes
- Externalism and the impossibility of massive error
- First person authority
- Inscrutability of reference
- Language, thought, and world
- Summary of Part III.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-434) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-160263-9
- 0-19-153071-9
- 1-281-19066-7
- 9786611190668
- 1-4356-2115-8
- OCLC:
- 666910763
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