Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-969751-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

The analysis of the connections between truth, meaning, thought, and action poses a major philosophical challenge--one that Donald Davidson addressed by establishing a unified theory of language and mind. This volume offers a reappraisal of Davidson's intellectual legacy. Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of enduring philosophical problems, and engage in particular with Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig's interpretation of Davidson's philosophy. The collection affirms Davidson's continuing influence on the study of language, mind, and action, and offers a variety of new perspectives on his work.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and advanced students in philosophy; linguists interested in the semantics of natural language; psychologists interested in philosophy of mind.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Preyer, Gerhard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Davidson's Philosophical Project

- Part I: Truth-Theory, Meaning, and Logical Form

- 1: Gilbert Harman: Davidson's Contribution to the Philosophy of Language

- 2: Peter Pagin: Truth Theories, Competence, and Semantic Computation

- 3: Gary Ebbs: Davidson's Explication of Meaning

- 4: Zoltán Gendler Szabó: Against Logical Form

- 5: William G. Lycan: A Truth Predicate in the Object Language

- 6: Nathaniel Goldberg: Swampman, Response-Dependence, and Meaning

- Part II: Radical Interpretation, Perception, and the Mental

- 7: Olav Gjelsvik: Knowledge and Error: A New Approach to Radical Interpretation

- 8: Kathrin Glüer: Perception and Intermediaries

- 9: Bruce Aune: On Davidson's View of First Person Authority

- 10: Steven Gross: Davidson, First Person Authority, and the Evidence for Semantics

- 11: Marga Reimer: Davidsonian Holism in Recent Philosophy of Psychiatry

- 12: Richard Manning: Taking Back the Excitement: Construing 'Theoretical Concepts' so as to Avoid the Threat of Underdetermination

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Preyer, Gerhard
Gerhard Preyer is Professor of Sociology at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt. He is the editor of ProtoSociology: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research. He is author, among other works, of Donald Davidson's Philosophy: From Radical Interpretation to Radical Contextualism (2nd edition, 2011), and Intention and Practical Thought (2011).