256 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
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Donald Davidson's work has been of seminal importance in the development of analytic philosophy and his views on the nature of language, mind and action remain the starting point for many of the central debates in the analytic tradition. His ideas, however, are complex, often technical, and interconnected in ways that can make them difficult to understand. This introduction to Davidson's... Read more
Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Davidson's philosophical project 2. Meaning and truth I 3. Meaning and truth II 4. Radical interpretation 5. Interpretation and meaning 6. Events and causes 7. Action theory and explanation in the social sciences 8. The matter of mind 9. Conclusion: scepticism and subjectivity Notes Bibliography Index
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