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| Reviews |
| - 'an outstanding book on Davidson's achievement...a model of excellent scholarship both for students and scholars.' - Dr Alessandro Capone, University of Messina
- 'In this monumental work, Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig have done for Davidson what he did not do for himself. For those interested in a synoptic account of Davidsons deep but elusive philosophical project, this book is cause for celebration. . . . From now on, anyone working on Davidson is obligated to learn the lessons of this important book' - Peter Hanks, International Quarterly of
Philosophy
- 'Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig have done the philosophical community a great service by beginning the project of providing an accessible account of Davidson's work, along with an informed and sympathetic critical analysis. . . . A review cannot do justice to the rich, intricate, and valuable analysis presented in this book. One of its main strengths is the introduction of nicely crafted
distinctions used in clear and helpful reconstructions of Davidson's arguments. It is easy to find one's way around in this work, as there are clear guideposts to what will be covered in each chapter, and excellent summaries at the end of both chapters and sections. . . . Though complex and subtle, this book will be accessible to undergraduate philosophy majors with a taste for hard work. . . .
this is also a must read for any Davidson scholar. . . . the complexity, cleverness, creativity, and intellectual stamina of Davidson's work shines out in this book' - James W. Garson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- 'They offer a straight-ahead, analytic Davidson and their rendition is, I think, pitch perfect. Not only do they get Davidson right in general terms, but on every disputed point of exegesis, their careful reconstructions of Davidson's views are exactly right. This is, therefore, a very impressive, and a very useful achievement.' - Simon Evnine, Mind
- 'Lepore and Ludwig have provided a magnificently impressive critical detailed account of Donald Davidsons contributions to the philosophy of logic, language, and mind.' - Gilbert Harman, Princeton University
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| Description | | - The first exposition and analysis of Donald Davidson's philosophical system
- The authors are the world's leading experts on Davidson
- Essential tool for all those getting to grips with a key twentieth-century philosopher
- Crosses philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind
| | Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig present the definitive critical exposition of the philosophical system of Donald Davidson (1917-2003). Davidson's ideas had a deep and broad influence in the central areas of philosophy; he presented them in brilliant essays over four decades, but never set out explicitly the overarching scheme in which they all have their place. Lepore's and Ludwig's book will
therefore be the key work, besides Davidson's own, for understanding one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. |
Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy
| Contents |
1.
Introduction
Part I: Historical Introduction to Truth-Theoretic Semantics
2.
Learnable Languages and the Compositionality Requirement
3.
The Form of a Meaning Theory and Difficulties for Traditional Approaches
4.
The Introduction of a Truth Theory as the Vehicle of a Meaning Theory
5.
Truth and Context Sensitivity
6.
Davidson's Extensionalist Proposal
7.
The Extensionality and Determination Problems
8.
Foster's Objection
9.
Relation to an Explicit Meaning Theory and to Semantic Competence
10.
The Problem of Semantic Defects in Natural Languages
Part II: Radical Interpretation
11.
Clarifying the Project
12.
The Procedure of the Radical Interpreter
13.
The Justification of the Principle of Charity
14.
The Theory of Agency and Additional Constraints
15.
Indeterminacy
16.
Development of a Unified Theory of Meaning and Action
17.
The Reality of Language
Part III: Metaphysics and Epistemology
18.
The Impossibility of Alternative Conceptual Schemes
19.
Externalism and the Impossibility of Massive Error
20.
First Person Authority
21.
Inscrutability of Reference
22.
Language, Thought, and World
Bibliography
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Ernest Lepore, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University and
Kirk Ludwig, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville
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