Truth, Language, and History

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. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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) 

Kritik

'While every one of the five volumes of Davidson's essays is a philosophical treasure trove, all containing influential and important essays, this final volume is especially interesting since it encompasses a number of key topics that are of special significance in Davidson's thinking. . . . One of the great merits of this volume is that it does indeed give a sense of the breadth of Davidson's thinking, and of the extent to which it extended beyond the usual confines of traditional "analytic" philosophy. . . . the radical and idiosyncratic character of Davidson's thinking is still, it seems to me, very much underappreciated and often unrecognised . . . The hope is that the publication of the essays in this volume, along with the essays included in the other four . . . will eventually give rise to a more integrated appreciation of Davidson's work - work that constitutes one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy' Jeff Malpas, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews