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: July 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925134-6
doi:10.1093/0199251347.003.0015
Ernie Lepore
Kirk Ludwig
Discusses the role of the theory of agency and additional constraints in the radical interpreter’s procedure. These are holism about attitude content, constraints on logical form in the object language, constraints that come from seeing a speaker as a member of a particular linguistic community, and the role of empirical constraints in the radical interpreter’s procedure.
Keywords: empirical constraints, holism about attitude content, linguistic community, logical form, the theory of agency,
doi:10.1093/0199251347.003.0015
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Part 1 Historical Introduction to Truth-Theoretic Semantics
Part II Radical Interpretation
Part III Metaphysics and Epistemology