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A Companion to Donald Davidson

Beschreibung

A Companion to Donald Davidson presents newly commissioned essays by leading figures within contemporary philosophy. Taken together, they provide a comprehensive overview of Davidson's work across its full range, and an assessment of his many contributions to philosophy. * Highlights the breadth of Davidson's work across philosophy * Demonstrates the continuing influence his work has on the philosophical community * Includes newly commissioned contributions from leading figures in contemporary philosophy * Provides an in-depth exposition and analysis of Davidson's work across the range of areas to which he contributed, including philosophy of action, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind

Autor

Ernie Lepore is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is currently Acting Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, and a professor at Rutgers University. He is the co-author with Herman Cappelen of Insensitive Semantics (Blackwell, 2004) and Language Turned On Itself (2007) and co-author with Kirk Ludwig of Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality (2005) and Donald Davidson's Truth-theoretic Semantics (2007). He is editor of the Handbook of Philosophy of Language (with B. Smith, 2006) and general editor of the Blackwell series Philosophers and Their Critics. Kirk Ludwig is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of Donald Davidson. He is the editor of the volume on  Donald Davidson (2003) in the Cambridge Contemporary Philosophy in Focus series, and he is co-author with Ernie Lepore (Rutgers) of Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality (2005) and Donald Davidson's Truth-theoretic Semantics (2007).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 170mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1098g
• ISBN-13: 9780470673706
• ISBN-10: 0470673702
• Artikelnr.: 38605113

Rezensionen

"This Companion to Davidson offers a cornucopia of new writings establishing the continuing relevance of Davidson's philosophical writings in action theory, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and epistemology."

--Gilbert Harman, Princeton University