Research Catalog

Title

Language, mind, and epistemology : on Donald Davidson's philosophy / edited by Gerhard Preyer, Frank Siebelt, and Alexander Ulfig.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Preyer, Gerhard.
• Siebelt, Frank.
• Ulfig, Alexander.

Description

xxii, 445 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Professor Donald Davidson is one of the most innovative and influential recent philosophers. Ranging over a variety of topics in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and epistemology, his system of thought is unified by his inquiries into the nature of interpretation and understanding the speech and behavior of others. Together with its introduction, Language, Mind and Epistemology examines Davidson's unified stance towards philosophy by joining American and European authors within a collection of essays, published here for the first time. The authors discuss the central topics in Davidson's latest philosophy: his holistic truth-theoretic stance towards meaning and understanding, the epistemology of interpretation and translation, the externalist viewpoint in epistemology, the anti-Cartesian approach in accounting for first person authority, the thesis of anomalous monism, and the holistic conception of the mental.

Series Statement

Synthese library ; v. 241

Uniform Title

Synthese library ; v. 241.

Alternative Title

On Donald Davidson's philosophy

Subject

• Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003
• Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003
• Davidson, Donald Philosoph
• Philosophy of mind
• Language and languages > Philosophy
• Knowledge, Theory of
• epistemology
• Linguistik
• Sprachphilosophie
• Erkenntnis
• Analytische filosofie
• Filosofie van de geest
• Filosofia da linguagem
• Teoria do conhecimento

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: On Donald Davidson's Philosophy ---- Part I. Philosophy of Language. 1. Meaning, Holism, and the Problem of Extensionality --- 2. Davidson's Use of Truth in Accounting for Meaning --- 3. Was ist Wahrheit? (What Is truth?) --- 4. Eigennamen und Kennzeichnungen -- Anmerkungen zur sogenannten Frege--Russell -- Theory ---- Part II. Epistemology. 5. Quine and Davidson: Two Naturalized Epistemologists --- 6. Davidson and Quine on Observation Sentences --- 7. Events and Externalism --- 8. Conceptual Relativism and Translation --- 9. Conceputal Schemes after Davidson --- 10. Singular Causal Sentences and two Relational Views ---- Part II. Philosophy of Mind and Theory of Action. 11. The Inadequacy of Anomalous Monism as a Realist Theory of Mind --- 12. Internalism, Externalism and Davidson's Conception of the Mental --- 13. Dividing the Self --- 14. Willensschwache -- Wie ist das nur moglich? (Weakness of the Will -- How Is It Possible?) --- 15. Davidson on Intentional Content and Self-Knowledge --- 16. Sharing Beliefs and the Myth of the Subjective --- 17. First-Person Knowledge and Authority --- 18. Rationalitat: Absichten, Primargrunde und praktisches Denken (Rationality: intentions -- primary reasons -- practical thinking) --- 19. Dialectic and Dialogue.

ISBN

• 0792328116
• 9780792328117

LCCN

94007208

OCLC

• ocm30030303
• 30030303
• SCSB-9478032

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library