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This brief book takes readers to the very heart of what it is that philosophy can do well. Completed shortly before Donald Davidson's death at 85, Truth and Predication brings full circle a journey moving from the insights of Plato and Aristotle to the problems of contemporary philosophy. In particular, Davidson, countering many of his contemporaries, argues that the concept of truth is not ...
“What is it for words to mean what they do?” (Davidson 1984b, xiii).Ever since his seminal paper Truth a n d Meaning appeared in 1967, Davidson’s work in the philosophy of language has, in one way or other, pursued this question. Over the years, he fine-tuned and developed his answers. He defended, elaborated, and corrected elements of his position, but the most central and basic ...
Donald Davidson was one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers. When he died in 2003, at the age of eighty-six, he had not only lived a wondrously rich life, but also made important, often seminal contributions to most of the core areas of philosophy.
27 de ago. de 1990 · Donald Davidson (1917-2003) lehrte u. a. in New York, Stanford, Chicago und Paris. 1970 hielt er die legendären John Locke Lectures in Oxford, 1991 wurde er mit dem Hegel-Preis der Stadt Stuttgart ausgezeichnet. Davidson war u. a. Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences sowie Fellow der British Academy.
Donald C. Davidson (born 1942-43) was the historian of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from 1998 to 2020, the only person to hold such a position on a full-time basis for any motorsports facility in the world. Davidson started his career as a statistician, publicist, and historian at USAC.His radio program, The Talk of Gasoline Alley, is broadcast annually throughout the "Month of May" on WFNI ...
11 de feb. de 2006 · Furthermore, they leave the more technical issues concerning the core of Davidson's theory of meaning to another book: Donald Davidson: Truth Theoretic Semantics (Oxford University Press, 2005). Even so, the volume to be reviewed here is a workout. It runs to well over 400 pages of compactly written presentation and analysis.
29 de may. de 1996 · Donald (Herbert) Davidson was one of the most important philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century whose reception and influence is matched, among American philosophers, perhaps only by that of his teacher, W. V. O. Quine. Davidson’s ideas, presented in a series of essays (and one posthumous monograph) from the 1960s onwards ...
