Donald Davidson Meaning Truth Language and Reality 1st Edition by Ernest Lepore, Kirk Ludwig 0199204322 9780199204328

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ISBN 10: 0199204322

ISBN 13: 9780199204328

Author: Ernest Lepore, Kirk Ludwig

Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most important philosophers of the late twentieth century. His work on language and the theory of meaning has been particularly influential.Two of the world’s leading authorities on Davidson’s philosophy, Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, provide a systematic exposition of his work in this field and of his contributions to philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology which spring from it. Their second aim is to assess Davidson’s program critically, to mark its successes, but also to identify where its ccomplishments fall short of its ambitions, and, since it is an on-going research program, to assess its prospects for the future, and to contribute to the expansion of that program. Criticizing and extending Davidson’s thought, as well as providing an introduction to it, Lepore and Ludwig address a broad academic audience. Their work will be of fundamental importance for those who are coming to Davidson’s work for the first time; while some philosophical sophistication and training is presupposed, it is accessible both to advanced undergraduates and to graduate students. It will also be welcomed by professional philosophers, linguists, and anyone wishing to assess and understand Davidson’s remarkable intellectual legacy.

Donald Davidson Meaning Truth Language and Reality 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Historical Introduction to Truth-Theoretic Semantics

1. Introduction
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

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