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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Donald Davidson |
| ISBN: | 0198237561 9780198237563 019823757X 9780198237570 |
| OCLC Number: | 58482791 |
| Description: | xx, 350 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Truth rehabilitated (1997) -- The folly of trying to define truth (1996) -- Method and metaphysics (1993) -- Meaning, truth, and evidence (1990) -- Pursuit of the concept of truth (1995) -- What is Quine's view of truth? (1994) -- A nice derangement of epitaphs (1986) -- The social aspect of language (1994) -- Seeing through language (1997) -- James Joyce and Humpty Dumpty (1989) -- The third man (1992) -- Locating literary language (1993) -- Thinking causes (1993) -- Laws and cause (1995) -- Plato's philosopher (1985) -- The Socratic concept of truth (1992) -- Dialectic and dialogue (1994) -- Gadamer and Plato's Philebus (1997) -- Aristotle's action (2001) -- Spinoza's causal theory of the affects (1993) -- Appendix: Replies to Rorty, Stroud, McDowell, and Pereda (1998). |
| Responsibility: | Donald Davidson. |
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No serious philosopher or student of philosophy should be without a copy. Times Higher Education Supplement '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 Read more...
