Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation

Produktbeschreibung

Now in a new edition, this volume updates Davidson's exceptional Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (1984), which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. The original volume remains a central point of reference, and a focus of controversy, with its impact extending into linguistic theory, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Addressing a central question--what it is for words to mean what they do--and featuring a previously uncollected, additional essay, this work will appeal to a wide audience of philosophers, linguists, and psychologists. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Second Edition
Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Truth and Meaning
2: Truth and Meaning (1967)
3: True to the Facts (1969)
4: Semantics for Natural Languages (1970)
5: In Defence of Convention T (1973)
Applications
7: On Saying That (1968)
8: Moods and Performances (1979)
Radical Interpretation
10: Belief and the Basis of Meaning
Appendix to Essay 10: Reply to Quine and Lewis (1974)
11: Thought and Talk (1975)
12: Reply to Foster (1976)
Language and Reality
14: The Method of Truth in Metaphysics
15: Reality Without Reference (1977)
16: The Inscrutibility of Reference (1979)
Limits of the Literal
18: Communication and Convention (1982)
Bibliographical References, Index 

Kritik

Davidson, aside from being one of the most influential philosophers of the last century, shares with many of his generation a capacity to write intelligibly. The Philosophers' Magazine 

Autoreninfo

Donald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Davidson is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in classical philosophy after serving in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. Before coming to Berkeley in 1981, he was Professor at Stanford, Princeton, Rockefeller, and the University of Chicago. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.