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:10.1093/0199251347.003.0016
Ernie Lepore
Kirk Ludwig
Takes up the question of the indeterminacy of interpretation, according to which there is no unique correct interpretation theory for another speaker. Argues that indeterminacy cannot be made sense of from the standpoint of the radical interpreter, and that Davidson’s analogy between measurement theory and interpretation breaks down when applied to the interpreter’s own language.
Keywords: analogy with measurement theory, indeterminacy of interpretation, underdetermination of interpretation,
doi:10.1093/0199251347.003.0016
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Part 1 Historical Introduction to Truth-Theoretic Semantics
Part II Radical Interpretation
Part III Metaphysics and Epistemology