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Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation Donald Davidson (, University of California, Berkeley)

Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation By Donald Davidson (, University of California, Berkeley)

Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation by Donald Davidson (, University of California, Berkeley)


Summary

This volume updates Donald Davidson's "Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation" (1984), which set out his philosophy of language. The work addresses a central question - what it is for words to mean what they do - and features a previously unpublished essay.

Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation Summary

Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays Volume 2 by Donald Davidson (, University of California, Berkeley)

This book is intended for all philosophers, linguists, and psychologists interested in philosophy; anyone else interested in language and mind.

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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 *

About Donald Davidson (, University of California, Berkeley)

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.

Table of Contents

1. THEORIES OF MEANING AND LEARNABLE LANGUAGES (1965) ; 6. QUOTATION (1979) ; 9. RADICAL INTERPRETATION (1973) ; 13. ON THE VERY IDEA OF A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME (1974) ; 17. WHAT METAPHORS MEAN (1978)

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NPB9780199246281
9780199246281
0199246289
Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays Volume 2 by Donald Davidson (, University of California, Berkeley)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press
2001-09-27
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