1st Edition

Donald Davidson: Life and Words

Edited By Maria Baghramian Copyright 2013
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. His thinking about language, mind, and epistemology has shaped the views of several generations of philosophers. This book brings together articles by a host of prominent philosophers to provide new interpretations of Davidson’s key ideas about meaning, language and thought.... Read more

Foreword Marcia Cavell

Introduction: Davidson: Life and Legacy Maria Baghramian

Part I. Remembering Donald

1. Marcia Cavell

2. Akeel Bilgrami

3. Elizabeth Boyer (Davidson)

4. Tyler Burge

5. Pascal Engel

6. Dagfinn Follesdal

7. Kathrin Glüer

8. Gilbert Harman

9. John McDowell

10. Jeff Malpas

11. Thomas Nagel

12. Stephen Neale

13. Richard Rorty

14. Carol Rovane

15. Barry Stroud

16. Samuel C. Wheeler III

Part II. Interpreting Davidson

17. Ontology in the Theory of Meaning Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig

18. A Mistaken View of Davidson's Legacy Frederick Stoutland

19. Radical Misinterpretation: A Reply to Stoutland Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig

20. Radical Misinterpretation Indeed: Response to Lepore and Ludwig Frederick Stoutland

21. The Status of Charity I: Conceptual Truth or A Posteriori Necessity? Kathrin Glüer

22 The Status of Charity II: Charity, Probability, and Simplicity Peter Pagin

23. Davidson, Interpretation and First-Person Constraints on Meaning Barry Smith

24. Expression, Truth, Predication and Context: Two Perspectives James Higginbotham

25. Interpreting People and Interpreting Texts William Child

26. Why Davidson is not a Property Epiphenomenalist Sophie Gibb

Part III. The Last Word

27. Could There Be a Science of Rationality? Donald Davidson

Biography

Maria Baghramian is currently Head of the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland, and Editor of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies. She has published widely on contemporary American philosophy, relativism and pluralism. In 2010 she was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy.