Socrates, Aristotle's favourite example of a substance, is just this sort of thing, as are the rose bush outside my window and the fountain pen I grasp in my right hand. For Aristotelians, the propriety of calling these objects ...
The third is that, without one, we have no answer to Wittgenstein's question about what makes the way we go on the right way. To the first, Davidson protests that there is no obligation to speak as others do, and that the reason we hold ...
Max had tried to fly his kite, gotten it inextricably tangled, and long since given up. Everyone had given up, in fact, except Don, who now stood delicately poking at the knotted strings, directing the full intensity of his intellect at ...
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In this book, Kathrin Gluer carefully outlines Donald Davidson's principal claims and arguments, and discusses them in some detail, providing a concise, systematic introduction to all the main elements of Davidson's philosophy.
This book offers a systematic and accessible introduction to Davidson's work. Evnine begins by discussing Davidson's contribution to the philosophy of mind, including his views on action, events and causation.
Donald Davidson has made enormous contributions to the philosophy of action, epistemology, semantics and philosophy of mind and today is recognized as one of the most important analytical philosophers of the late twentieth century.
The book begins with an account of the assumptions and structure of Davidson's philosophy of language, introducing his compositionalism, extensionalism and commitment to a Tarski-style theory of truth as the model for theories of meaning.
Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most important philosophers of the late twentieth century.
The book begins with an account of the assumptions and structure of Davidson's philosophy of language, introducing his compositionalism, extensionalism and commitment to a Tarski-style theory of truth as the model for theories of meaning.