Buch, Englisch, 466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 702 g
Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality
Buch, Englisch, 466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 702 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-920432-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most important philosophers of the late twentieth century. His work on language and the theory of meaning has been particularly influential.Two of the world's leading authorities on Davidson's philosophy, Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, provide a systematic exposition of his work in this field and of his contributions to philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology which spring from it. Their second aim is to assess Davidson's program critically, to mark its successes, but also to identify where its ccomplishments fall short of its ambitions, and, since it is an on-going research program, to assess its prospects for the future, and to contribute to the expansion of that program.
Criticizing and extending Davidson's thought, as well as providing an introduction to it, Lepore and Ludwig address a broad academic audience. Their work will be of fundamental importance for those who are coming to Davidson's work for the first time; while some philosophical sophistication and training is presupposed, it is accessible both to advanced undergraduates and to graduate students. It will also be welcomed by professional philosophers, linguists, and anyone wishing to assess and understand Davidson's remarkable intellectual legacy.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
Weitere Infos & Material
- 1: Introduction
- Part I: Historical Introduction to Truth-Theoretic Semantics
- 2: Learnable Languages and the Compositionality Requirement
- 3: The Form of a Meaning Theory and Difficulties for Traditional Approaches
- 4: The Introduction of a Truth Theory as the Vehicle of a Meaning Theory
- 5: Truth and Context Sensitivity
- 6: Davidson's Extensionalist Proposal
- 7: The Extensionality and Determination Problems
- 8: Foster's Objection
- 9: Relation to an Explicit Meaning Theory and to Semantic Competence
- 10: The Problem of Semantic Defects in Natural Languages
- Part II: Radical Interpretation
- 11: Clarifying the Project
- 12: The Procedure of the Radical Interpreter
- 13: The Justification of the Principle of Charity
- 14: The Theory of Agency and Additional Constraints
- 15: Indeterminacy
- 16: Development of a Unified Theory of Meaning and Action
- 17: The Reality of Language
- Part III: Metaphysics and Epistemology
- 18: The Impossibility of Alternative Conceptual Schemes
- 19: Externalism and the Impossibility of Massive Error
- 20: First Person Authority
- 21: Inscrutability of Reference
- 22: Language, Thought, and World
- Bibliography
