A companion to Donald Davidson /

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Imprint:Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2013.
Description:xiii, 615 pages ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 53
Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 53.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9349935
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Other authors / contributors:LePore, Ernest, 1950- editor of compilation.
ISBN:9780470673706 (cloth)
0470673702 (cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Other form:Online version: Companion to Donald Davidson Hoboken : Wiley, 2013 9781118328279
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Life and Work
  • Part I. Action Theory
  • 1. Action Explanation
  • 2. Practical Reason
  • 3. Action Individuation
  • 4. Freedom to Act
  • 5. Intention
  • Part II. Metaphysics
  • 6. Event Variables and Their Values
  • 7. Causation
  • 8. Davidson's "Method of Truth" in Metaphysics
  • 9. The Concept of Truth
  • Part III. Philosophy of Language
  • 10. Truth in the Theory of Meaning
  • 11. Parataxis
  • 12. Logical Form
  • 13. Radical Interpretation and the Principle of Charity
  • 14. Davidson's Measurement-Theoretic Analogy
  • 15. Reference
  • 16. Language and Thought
  • 17. Conceptual Schemes
  • 18. Interpretation and Value
  • 19. Predication
  • 20. Convention and Meaning
  • 21. Metaphor and Varieties of Meaning
  • 22. Davidson and Literary Theory
  • Part IV. Philosophy of Mind
  • 23. The Larger Philosophical Significance of Holism
  • 24. Anomalous Monism
  • 25. Triangular Externalism
  • 26. Triangulation
  • 27. Rationality as a Constitutive Ideal
  • 28. Irrationality
  • 29. The Rationality of the Emotions
  • Part V. Epistemology
  • 30. Davidson and Radical Skepticism
  • 31. First-Person Authority
  • 32. Knowledge of Other Minds in Davidson's Philosophy
  • Part VI. Influences and Influence
  • 33. Quine and Davidson
  • 34. Davidson and Contemporary Philosophy
  • Name Index
  • General Index