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The Essential Davidson (Hardcover, New)
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The Essential Davidson (Hardcover, New)
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The Essential Davidson compiles the most celebrated papers of one
of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. It distills
Donald Davidson's seminal contributions to our understanding of
ourselves, from three decades of essays, into one thematically
organized collection. A new, specially written introduction by
Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, two of the world's leading
authorities on his work, offers a guide through the ideas and
arguments, shows how they interconnect, and reveals the systematic
coherence of Davidson's worldview.
Davidson's philosophical program is organized around two connected
projects. The first is that of understanding the nature of human
agency. The second is that of understanding the nature and function
of language, and its relation to the world. Accordingly, the first
part of the book presents Davidson's investigation of reasons,
causes, and intentions, which revolutionized the philosophy of
action. This leads to his notable doctrine of anomalous monism, the
view that all mental events are physical events, but that the
mental cannot be reduced to the physical. The second part of the
book presents the famous essays in which Davidson set out his
highly original and influential philosophy of language, which
founds the theory of meaning on the theory of truth.
These fifteen classic essays will be invaluable for anyone
interested in the study of mind and language. Fascinating though
they are individually, it is only when drawn together that there
emerges a compelling picture of man as a rational linguistic animal
whose thoughts, though not reducible to the material, are part of
the fabric of the world, and whose knowledge of his own mind, the
minds ofothers, and the world around him is as fundamental to his
nature as the power of thought and speech itself.
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