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Truth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In the four groups of essays that comprise it, Davidson continues to explore the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between language and the world; speaker intention and linguistic meaning; language and mind; mind and body; mind and world; mind and other minds. He asks: what is the role of the concept of truth in these explorations? And, can a scientific world view make room for human thought without reducing it to something material and mechanistic? Davidson's underlying picture, which can be seen in many of these essays, is that we are acquainted directly with the world, not indirectly via some intermediary such as sense-data, representations, or language itself; that thought emerges in the first place through interpersonal communication in a shared material world, and continues to develop as we engage each other in dialogue; and that language depends on communication, not vice versa. This is the triangulating situation - two creatures communicating about a common world - about which Davidson has written elsewhere. As for the mind-body relation: our ontology need posit nothing more that material objects and events; but as explainers we require two mutually irreducible vocabularies: mind and body. In the last six essays Davidson finds interconnections between his own views and those of some of the major philosophers of the past. Including a new introduction by his widow, Marcia Cavell, this volume completes Donald Davidson's colossal intellectual legacy.

Philosophy of language --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy, Modern --- Philosophy, American --- Philosophy [Modern ] --- 20th century --- Philosophy [American ] --- Erkenntnistheorie. --- Langage et langues --- Logik. --- Philosophy --- Philosophie américaine --- Philosophie --- Philosophy, American. --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Sprachphilosophie. --- Taal. --- Waarheid. --- Wahrheit. --- Philosophie. --- History & Surveys --- Modern. --- 1900-1999.

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This book is the eagerly awaited fourth volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. From the 1960s until his death in August 2003 the author was perhaps the most influential figure in English-language philosophy, and his work has had a profound effect upon the discipline. His unified theory of the interpretation of thought, meaning, and action holds that rationality is a necessary condition for both mind and interpretation. The author here develops this theory to illuminate value judgements and how we understand them; to investigate what the conditions are for attributing mental states to an object or creature; and to grapple with the problems presented by thoughts and actions which seem to be irrational.

Practical reason. --- Objectivity. --- Philosophy, British. --- Raison pratique --- Objectivite --- Philosophie britannique --- Practical reason --- Praktische rede --- Theory of knowledge --- Objectivity --- Philosophy [British ] --- Philosophy, British --- Practical rationality --- Practical reasoning --- Rationality, Practical --- Reasoning, Practical --- Reason --- British philosophy --- Philosophy, English --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Reality --- Personal equation --- Raison pratique. --- Objectivité. --- Philosophie britannique. --- Erkenntnistheorie. --- Rationaliteit. --- Filosofia contemporânea (ensaios)

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Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays.

Act (Philosophy) --- Events (Philosophy) --- Psychology --- Action (Philosophie) --- Evénement (Philosophie) --- Psychologie --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Events (Philosophy). --- Action (Philosophy) --- Agent (Philosophy)

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Essais parus dans divers revues et ouvrages collectifs de 1982 à 1998

Théorie de la connaissance. --- Subjectivité. --- Objectivité. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Brain. --- Other minds (Theory of knowledge) --- Subjectivity --- Philosophy of mind --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Altérité --- Subjectivité --- Philosophie de l'esprit --- Brain --- Knowledge, Theory of --- 800.1 --- 800.1 Taalfilosofie --- Taalfilosofie --- Minds of others (Theory of knowledge) --- Mind and body --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Cerebrum --- Mind --- Central nervous system --- Head --- Other minds (Theory of knowledge). --- Philosophical anthropology --- Philosophy of language --- Knowledge [Theory of ]

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