Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-924628-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Davidson, aside from being one of the most influential philosophers of the last century, shares with many of his generation a capacity to write intelligibly. (The Philosophers' Magazine)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidson, Donald

Davidson, D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface to the Second Edition

- Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgements

- Introduction

- Truth and Meaning

- 2: Truth and Meaning (1967)

- 3: True to the Facts (1969)

- 4: Semantics for Natural Languages (1970)

- 5: In Defence of Convention T (1973)

- Applications

- 7: On Saying That (1968)

- 8: Moods and Performances (1979)

- Radical Interpretation

- 10: Belief and the Basis of Meaning

- Appendix to Essay 10: Reply to Quine and Lewis (1974)

- 11: Thought and Talk (1975)

- 12: Reply to Foster (1976)

- Language and Reality

- 14: The Method of Truth in Metaphysics

- 15: Reality Without Reference (1977)

- 16: The Inscrutibility of Reference (1979)

- Limits of the Literal

- 18: Communication and Convention (1982)

- Bibliographical References, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Donald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Davidson is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in classical philosophy after serving in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. Before coming to Berkeley in 1981, he was Professor at Stanford, Princeton, Rockefeller, and the University of Chicago. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.