Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics by Ernest Lepore

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Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics by Ernest Lepore

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Summary

The work of Donald Davidson transformed the study of meaning. Lepore and Ludwig, two of the world's leading authorities on Davidson's work, present the definitive study of his widely admired and influential program of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages, giving an exposition and critical examination of its foundations and applications.

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Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics by Ernest Lepore

Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig examine the foundations and applications of Davidson's influential program of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages. The program uses an axiomatic truth theory for a language, which meets certain constraints, to serve the goals of a compositional meaning theory. Lepore and Ludwig explain and clarify the motivations for the approach, and then consider how to apply the framework to a range of important natural language constructions, including quantifiers, proper names, indexicals, simple and complex demonstratives, quotation, adjectives and adverbs, the simple and perfect tenses, temporal adverbials and temporal quantifiers, tense in sentential complement clauses, attitude and indirect discourse reports, and the problem of interrogative and imperative sentences. They not only discuss Davidson's own contributions to these subjects but consider criticisms, developments, and alternatives as well. They conclude with a discussion of logical form in natural language in light of the approach, the role of the concept of truth in the program, and Davidson's view of it. Anyone working on meaning will find this book invaluable.

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Review from previous edition An outstanding book on Davidson's achievement in philosophical semantics..a model of excellent scholarship both for students and scholars. * Journal of Pragmatics *
Ernest Lepore is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and Associate Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. Kirk Ludwig is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida.
SKU NIN9780199561681
ISBN 13 9780199561681
ISBN 10 0199561680
Title Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics
Author Ernest Lepore
Condition New
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2009-01-08
Number of pages 362
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