Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation

Philosophical Essays Volume 2

Donald Davidson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2001
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-924628-1 (ISBN)

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This volume updates Donald Davidson's "Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation" (1984), which set out his philosophy of language. The work addresses a central question - what it is for words to mean what they do - and features a previously unpublished essay.

Donald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Davidson is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in classical philosophy after serving in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. Before coming to Berkeley in 1981, he was Professor at Stanford, Princeton, Rockefeller, and the University of Chicago. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

1. THEORIES OF MEANING AND LEARNABLE LANGUAGES (1965) ; 6. QUOTATION (1979) ; 9. RADICAL INTERPRETATION (1973) ; 13. ON THE VERY IDEA OF A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME (1974) ; 17. WHAT METAPHORS MEAN (1978)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2001
Reihe/Serie	The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (5 Volumes)
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	146 x 224 mm
Gewicht	483 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	0-19-924628-9 / 0199246289
ISBN-13	978-0-19-924628-1 / 9780199246281
Zustand	Neuware