Davidson, Donald (1917–2003)
DOI
10.4324/9780415249126-U057-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-U057-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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List of works
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Davidson, D. (1980) Actions and Events, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Contains all of Davidson’s essays on action and events mentioned in §§1–2: ‘Actions, Reasons, and Causes’, ‘Causal Relations’ and ‘The Individuation of Events’.) |
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Davidson, D. (1984) Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Includes essays on the philosophy of language (‘Thought and Talk’ and ‘On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme’) and ‘True to the Facts’. Others mentioned in the article are listed under separate titles.) |
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Davidson, D. (1985)‘Rational Animals’, in E.
Lepore and B.
McLaughlin (eds) Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Oxford: Blackwell, 1985. (Argues against the idea of nonlinguistic thinkers.) |
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Davidson, D. (1986) ‘A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge’, in E.
Lepore (ed.) Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Oxford: Blackwell. (Elaborates a theory of the nature and content of beliefs.) |
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Davidson, D. (1989) ‘The Myth of the Subjective’, in M.
Karusz (ed.) Relativism: Interpretation and Confrontation, Paris: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989. (One strand of Davidson’s argument that there are no representations of reality.) |
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Davidson, D. (1990)‘The Structure and Content of Truth’, The Journal of Philosophy
87: 279–328. (Argues that there is nothing in reality for sentences to represent.) |
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Davidson, D. (1991)‘Epistemology Externalized’, Dialectica
45: 191–202. (Includes discussion of ‘triangulation’, contributing to Davidson’s argument against the coherence of non-intertranslatable languages.) |
References and further reading
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Fodor, J. and Lepore, E. (1992) Holism: A Shopper’s Guide, Oxford: Blackwell. (An extended consideration of arguments, including Davidson’s, that the contents of thoughts, concepts and words are fixed only ‘holistically’ – in concert – rather than each in isolation.) |
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Lepore, E. (1986) Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Oxford: Blackwell. (Useful essays on this aspect of Davidson’s work.) |
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Lepore, E. and Loewer, B. (1989)‘You Can Say That Again’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy
14: 338–356. (Explores criticisms and defences of Davidson’s account of propositional attitude ascriptions.) |
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Lepore, E. and McLaughlin, B. (1985) Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Oxford: Blackwell. (Useful essays on this aspect of Davidson’s work.) |
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Neale, S. (1995)‘Gödel and the Best of All Possible Slingshots’, Mind
104: 761–825. (A detailed look at arguments by Davidson and others for denying that sentences stand for entities more specific than truth-values.) |
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