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Donald Davidson on truth, meaning, and the mental [electronic resource] / edited by Gerhard Preyer

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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1 online resource (vi, 290 pages)
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Preyer, Gerhard
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Truth theory, meaning, and logical form -- Davidson's contribution to the philosophy of language / Gilbert Harman -- Truth theories, competence, and semantic computation / Peter Pagin -- Davidson's explication of meaning / Gary Ebbs -- Against logical form / Zoltan Gendler Szabo -- A truth predicate in the object language / William G. Lycan -- Swampman, response-dependence, and meaning / Nathaniel Goldberg -- pt. II Radical interpretation, perception, and the mental -- Knowledge and error: a new approach to radical interpretation / Olav Gjelsvik -- Perception and intermediaries / Kathrin Gluer -- On Davidson's view of first-person authority / Bruce Aune -- Davidson, first-person authority, and the evidence for semantics / Steven Gross -- Davidsonian holism in recent philosophy of psychiatry / Marga Reimer -- Taking back the excitement: construing "theoretical concepts" so as to avoid the threat of underdetermination / Richard N. Manning.
Summary
A reappraisal of Donald Davidson's influential philosophy of thought, meaning, and action. Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of themes and problems relating to these subjects, and engage in particular with Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig's interpretation of Davidson's thought.
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9780191742316 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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