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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor 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. 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 The work addresses a central question - what it is for words to mean what they do - and features a previously unpublished essay. Zusammenfassung 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 The work addresses a central question - what it is for words to mean what they do - and features a previously unpublished essay. Preface to the Second Edition ; Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1. THEORIES OF MEANING AND LEARNABLE LANGUAGES (1965) ; 2. Truth and Meaning (1967) ; 3. True to the Facts (1969) ; 4. Semantics for Natural Languages (1970) ; 5. In Defence of Convention T (1973) ; 6. QUOTATION (1979) ; 7. On Saying That (1968) ; 8. Moods and Performances (1979) ; 9. RADICAL INTERPRETATION (1973) ; 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) ; 13. ON THE VERY IDEA OF A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME (1974) ; 14. The Method of Truth in Metaphysics ; 15. Reality Without Reference (1977) ; 16. The Inscrutibility of Reference (1979) ; 17. WHAT METAPHORS MEAN (1978) ; 18. Communication and Convention (1982) ; Bibliographical References, Index ...
