Truth, Language, and History

Produktbeschreibung

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. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Introduction


* Truth


* 1: Truth Rehabilitated (1997)


* 2: The Folly of Trying to Define Truth (1996)


* 3: Method and Metaphysics (1993)


* 4: Meaning, Truth, and Evidence (1990)


* 5: Pursuit of the Concept of Truth (1995)


* 6: What is Quine's View of Truth? (1994)


* Language


* 7: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1986)


* 8: The Social Aspect of Language (1994)


* 9: Seeing Through Language (1997)


* 10: James Joyce and Humpty Dumpty (1989)


* 11: The Third Man (1992)


* 12: Locating Literary Language (1993)


* Anomalous Monism


* 13: Thinking Causes (1993)


* 14: Laws and Cause (1995)


* Historical Thoughts


* 15: Plato's Philosopher (1985)


* 16: The Socratic Concept of Truth (1992)


* 17: Dialectic and Dialogue (1994)


* 18: Gadamer and Plato's Philebus (1997)


* 19: Aristotle's Action (2001)


* 20: Spinoza's Causal Theory of the Affects (1993)


* Appendix: Replies to Rorty, Stroud, McDowell, and Pereda (1998)