Dialogues with Davidson
Acting, Interpreting, Understanding
Published on 24. June 2011
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-262-01556-1 (ISBN)
Description
Leading scholars discuss Donald Davidson's work in relation to a wide range of contemporary philosophical issues and approaches.The work of the philosopher Donald Davidson (1917-2003) is not only wide ranging in its influence and vision, but also in the breadth of issues that it encompasses. Davidson's work includes seminal contributions to philosophy of language and mind, to philosophy of action, and to epistemology and metaphysics.In Dialogues with Davidson, leading scholars engage with Davidson's work as it connects not only with aspects of current analytic thinking but also with a wider set of perspectives, including those of hermeneutics, phenomenology, the history of philosophy, feminist epistemology, and contemporary social theory. They link Davidson's work to other thinkers, including Collingwood, Kant, Derrida, Heidegger, and Gadamer.The essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Davidson's philosophy, not only in terms of the philosophical relevance of the ideas he advanced, but also in the further connections and insights those ideas engender.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
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Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
816 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-01556-1 (9780262015561)
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Philippe Aghion is Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Aghion is coauthor (with Peter Howitt) of Endogenous Growth Theory (MIT Press, 1997).
Content
Foreword Dagfinn Føllesdal Acknowledgments Introduction: Davidson and Contemporary Philosophy Jeff Malpas I On Language, Mind, and World 1 1 Davidson versus Descartes Richard Rorty 3 2 What Subjectivity Isn't David Couzens Hoy and Christoph Durt 7 3 Davidson, Derrida, and Differance Samuel C. Wheeler III 29 4 Davidson, Kant, and Double-Aspect Ontologies Gordon G. Brittan, Jr. 43 5 Interpretive Semantics and Ontological Commitment Richard N. Manning 61 6 Davidson, Heidegger, and Truth Mark Okrent 87 7 Davidson and the Demise of Representationalism Giancarlo Marchetti 113 8 Method and Metaphysics: Pragmatist Doubts Bjørn Ramberg 129 II On Interpretation and Understanding 147 9 Davidson's Reading of Gadamer Triangulation, Conversation, and the Analytic-Continental Divide Lee Braver 149 10 In Gadamer's Neighborhood Robert Dostal 167 11 The Relevance of Radical Interpretation to the Understanding of Mind Jonathan Ellis 191 12 Incommensurability in Davidson and Gadamer Barbara Fultner 219 13 Davidson, Gadamer, Incommensurability, and the Third Dogma of Empiricism David Vessey 241 14 What Is Common to All Davidson on Agreement and Understanding Jeff Malpas 259 III On Action, Reason, and Knowledge 281 15 Davidson and the Autonomy of the Human Sciences Giuseppina D'Oro 283 16 Interpreting Davidson on Intentional Action Frederick Stoutland 297 17 Evaluative Attitudes Gerhard Preyer 325 18 Davidson's Normativity Stephen Turner 343 19 Davidson and the Source of Self-Knowledge Louise Röska-Hardy 371 20 Radical Interpretation, Feminism, and Science Sharyn Clough 405 Bibliography 427 Contributors Index