Donald Davidson

Truth, Language, and History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Truth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In four groups of essays, Davidson continues to explore the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between language and the world; speaker intention and linguistic meaning; language and mind; mind and body; mind and world; mind and other minds. He asks: what is the role of the concept of truth in these explorations? And, can a scientific world view make room for human thought without reducing it to something material and mechanistic? Including a new introduction by his widow, Marcia Cavell, this volume completes Donald Davidson's colossal intellectual legacy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 146mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780198237563
• ISBN-10: 0198237561
• Artikelnr.: 21687070

Autorenporträt

Donald Davidson, (1917-2003) formerly Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Truth
1: Truth Rehabilitated (1997)
2: The Folly of Trying to Define Truth (1996)
3: Method and Metaphysics (1993)
4: Meaning, Truth, and Evidence (1990)
5: Pursuit of the Concept of Truth (1995)
6: What is Quine's View of Truth? (1994)
Language
7: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1986)
8: The Social Aspect of Language (1994)
9: Seeing Through Language (1997)
10: James Joyce and Humpty Dumpty (1989)
11: The Third Man (1992)
12: Locating Literary Language (1993)
Anomalous Monism
13: Thinking Causes (1993)
14: Laws and Cause (1995)
Historical Thoughts
15: Plato's Philosopher (1985)
16: The Socratic Concept of Truth (1992)
17: Dialectic and Dialogue (1994)
18: Gadamer and Plato's Philebus (1997)
19: Aristotle's Action (2001)
20: Spinoza's Causal Theory of the Affects (1993)
Appendix: Replies to Rorty, Stroud, McDowell, and Pereda (1998)