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Truth and Interpretation
Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson

Ernest Lepore (Author)

9780631169482, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 29 June 1989

544 pages
22.9 x 15.6 x 2.9 cm, 0.822 kg

Regardless of its particular topic, each of Donald Davidson's essays is part of a comprehensive progrqamme to address questions about language, mind and action, and their interconnections. Themes from this larger programme permeate and bind his work on semantics: on the notions of meaning and truth, on theories of truth, reference, logical form and inference, compositionality, 'intentional' operators, indeterminacy, conceptual relativism, skepticism and metaphor.

Twenty-eight critical essays, including a substantial introduction to Davidson's philosophy of language, and three essays by Davidson himself, make up this volume. The volume's six sections corespond to the major section of Davidson's inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. Each contains critical essays addressing, interpreting and further develoing his views. The first section, written by the editor, gives an overview of the whole volume, the second section focuses on truth and meaning; the third, applications of Davidson's semantic theory; the fourth, radical interpretation; the fifth, language and reality, and the sixth, limits of the literal.

Preface
DONALD DAVIDSON ix

Preface
ERNEST LEPORE xi

Part I Introduction

1 Truth in Meaning
ERNEST LEPORE 3

Part Il Truth and Meaning

2 Linguistic Theory and Davidson's Program in Semantics
JAMES HIGGINBOTHAM 29

3 Learnability of Semantic Theory
ROBERT J. MATTHEWS 49

4 Why Intensionalists Ought Not Be Fregeans
JERROLD J. KATZ 59

5 How to Turn the Tractatus Wittgenstein into (Almost) Donald Davidson
J. J. C. SMART 92

6 Meaning, Holism and Use
AKEEL BILGRAMI 101

Part III Applications

7 The Meanings of Logical Constants
GILBERT HARMAN 125

8 Tenses, Temporal Quantifiers and Semantic Innocence
BARRY RICHARDS 135

9 What a Truth Theory Need Not Tell Us
RICHARD E. GRANDY 179

10 On Davidson's "Saying That"
TYLER BURGE 190

Part IV Radical Interpretations

11 Translation Theories and the Decipherment of Linear B
JOHN WALLACE 211

12 Testing Theories of Interpretation
BRUCE VERMAZEN 235

13 Semantics and Methodological Solipsism
WILLIAM G. LYCAN 245

14 Information and the Mental
HILARY PUTNAM 262

15 Davidson and Social Science
MICHAFI ROOT 272

Part V Language and Reality

16 A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge
DONALD DAVIDSON 307

17 Empirical Content
DONALD DAVIDSON 320

18 Pragmatism, Davidson and Truth
RICHARD RORTY 333

19 Radical Interpretation and Epistemology
COLIN MCGINN 356

20 Radical Interpretation and Global Skepticism
PETER D. KLEIN 369

21 'Circular' Coherence and 'Absurd' Foundations
ERNEST SOSA 387

22 The Third Dogmna
ROBERT KRALT 398

23 The Metaphysics of Interpretation
CAROL ROVANE 417

Part VI Limits of the Literal

24 A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
DONALD DAVIDSON 433

25 The Parody of Conversation
IAN HACKING 447

26 'A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs': Some Comments on Davidson and Hacking MICHAEL DUMMETT 459

27 Indeterminacy of French Interpretation: Derrida and Davidson
SAMUEL C. WHEELER III 477

28 Metaphor, Dreamwork and Irrationality
MARCIA CAVELL 495

Index 508

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
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