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Truth, Language, and History - Philosophical Essays Volume 5 (Paperback, New)
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Truth, Language, and History - Philosophical Essays Volume 5 (Paperback, New)
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Truth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume
of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In the four groups of
essays that comprise it, Davidson continues to explore the themes
that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between
language and the world; speaker intention and linguistic meaning;
language and mind; mind and body; mind and world; mind and other
minds. He asks: what is the role of the concept of truth in these
explorations? And, can a scientific world view make room for human
thought without reducing it to something material and mechanistic?
Davidson's underlying picture, which can be seen in many of these
essays, is that we are acquainted directly with the world, not
indirectly via some intermediary such as sense-data,
representations, or language itself; that thought emerges in the
first place through interpersonal communication in a shared
material world, and continues to develop as we engage each other in
dialogue; and that language depends on communication, not vice
versa. This is the triangulating situation - two creatures
communicating about a common world - about which Davidson has
written elsewhere. As for the mind-body relation: our ontology need
posit nothing more that material objects and events; but as
explainers we require two mutually irreducible vocabularies: mind
and body. In the last six essays Davidson finds interconnections
between his own views and those of some of the major philosophers
of the past. Including a new introduction by his widow, Marcia
Cavell, this volume completes Donald Davidson's colossal
intellectual legacy.
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