Donald Davidson - Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality
Lepore, Ernie Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Ludwig, Kirk Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville
Print publication date: 2005 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925134-6
doi:10.1093/0199251347.003.0001
 

1 Introduction
Ernie Lepore
Kirk Ludwig
Provides a synoptic overview of the book and Davidson’s philosophical project, emphasizing the interrelation of fives themes, compositionality, meaning, the inutility of reifying meanings, truth, ontology, interpretation, and anti-Cartesianism.
Keywords: anti-Cartesianism, compositionality, interpretation, meaning, ontology, reification, truth
doi:10.1093/0199251347.003.0001
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Preface
1 Introduction
Part 1 Historical Introduction to Truth-Theoretic Semantics
2 Learnable Languages and the Compositionality Requirement
3 The Form of a Meaning Theory and Difficulties for Traditional Approaches
4 The Introduction of a Truth Theory as the Vehicle of a Meaning Theory
5 Truth and Context Sensitivity
6 Davidson's Extensionalist Proposal
7 The Extensionality and Determination Problems
8 Foster's Objection
9 Relation to an Explicit Meaning Theory and to Semantic Competence
10 The Problem of Semantic Defects in Natural Languages
Summary of Part I
Part II Radical Interpretation
11 Clarifying the Project
12 The Procedure of the Radical Interpreter
13 The Justification of the Principle of Charity
14 The Theory of Agency and Additional Constraints
15 Indeterminacy
16 Development of a Unified Theory of Meaning and Action
17 The Reality of Language
Summary of Part II
Part III Metaphysics and Epistemology
18 The Impossibility of Alternative Conceptual Schemes
19 Externalism and the Impossibility of Massive Error
20 First Person Authority
21 Inscrutability of Reference
22 Language, Thought, and World
Summary of Part III
Bibliography
Index
 
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