Find a copy online
Links to this item
myilibrary.com Available to Stanford-affiliated users at:
Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| Named Person: | Donald Davidson; Donald Davidson; Donald Davidson, Philosoph. |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ernest LePore; Kirk Ludwig |
| ISBN: | 0199251347 9780199251346 |
| OCLC Number: | 56942444 |
| Description: | xvii, 446 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | I: Historical introduction to truth-theoretic semantics -- Learnable languages and the compositionality requirement -- The form of a meaning theory and difficulties for traditional approaches -- The introduction of a truth theory as the vehicle of a meaning theory -- A closed form recursive definition of 'true₀' -- Truth and context sensitivity -- Formulating a truth theory for natural languages which predicates truth of utterances of sentences -- Davidson's extensionalist proposal -- The extensionality and determination problems -- Foster's objection -- Relation to an explicit meaning theory and to semantic competence -- The problem of semantic defects in natural languages -- Summary of part I -- II: Radical interpretation -- Clarifying the project -- The procedure of the radical interpreter -- The justification of the principle of charity -- The theory of agency and additional constraints -- Indeterminacy -- Development of a unified theory of meaning and action -- The reality of language -- Summary of part II -- III: Metaphysics and epistemology -- The impossibility of alternative conceptual schemes -- Externalism and the impossibility of massive error -- First person authority -- Inscrutability of reference -- Language, thought, and world -- Summary of Part III. |
| Responsibility: | Ernie Lepore, Kirk Ludwig. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig present a critical exposition of the philosophical system of Donald Davidson (1917-2003)"--Provided by publisher.
Reviews
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Tags
Add tags for "Donald Davidson : meaning, truth, language, and reality".
Be the first.

