
Truth, Language, and History
Philosophical Essays Volume 5
Donald Davidson(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 17. February 2005
Book
Hardback
370 pages
978-0-19-823756-3 (ISBN)
Description
Truth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In four groups of essays, Davidson continues to explore the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between language and the world; speaker intention and linguistic meaning; language and mind; mind and body; mind and world; mind and other minds. He asks: what is the role of the concept of truth in these explorations? And, can a scientific world view make room for human thought without reducing it to something material and mechanistic? Including a new introduction by his widow, Marcia Cavell, this volume completes Donald Davidson's colossal intellectual legacy.
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
All philosophers, psychologists and linguists interested in philosophy, anyone else interested in cutting-edge work on knowledge, mind, and language
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
655 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-823756-3 (9780198237563)
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Donald Davidson, (1917-2003) formerly Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
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(1917-2003) formerly Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Content
TRUTH ; LANGUAGE ; ANOMALOUS MONISM ; HISTORICAL THOUGHTS