Gerhard Preyer

Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers a reappraisal of Donald Davidson's influential philosophy of thought, meaning, and language, Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of themes and problems relating to these subjects, and engage in particular with Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig's interpretation of Davidson's thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780199697519
• ISBN-10: 0199697515
• Artikelnr.: 35299592

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

* 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