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Donald Davidson - A Short Introduction (Hardcover)
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Donald Davidson - A Short Introduction (Hardcover)
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Donald Davidson was one of the 20th Century's deepest analytic
thinkers. He developed a systematic picture of the human mind and
its relation to the world, an original and sustained vision that
exerted a shaping influence well beyond analytic philosophy of mind
and language. At its center is an idea of minded creatures as
essentially rational animals: Rational animals can be interpreted,
their behavior can be understood, and the contents of their
thoughts are, in principle, open to others. The combination of a
rigorous analytic stance with aspects of humanism so distinctive of
Davidsonian thought finds its maybe most characteristic expression
when this central idea is brought to bear on the relation of the
mental to the physical: Davidson defended the irreducibility of its
rational nature while acknowledging that the mental is ultimately
determined by the physical.
Davidson made contributions of lasting importance to a wide range
of topics -- from general theory of meaning and content over formal
semantics, the theories of truth, explanation, and action, to
metaphysics and epistemology. His writings almost entirely consist
of short, elegant, and often witty papers. These dense and
thematically tightly interwoven essays present a profound challenge
to the reader.
This book provides a concise, systematic introduction to all the
main elements of Davidson's philosophy. It places the theory of
meaning and content at the very center of his thought. By using
interpretation, and the interpreter, as key ideas it clearly brings
out the underlying structure and unified nature of Davidson's work.
Kathrin Gluer carefully outlines his principal claims and
arguments, and discusses them in some detail. The book thus makes
Davidson's thought accessible in its genuine depth, and acquaints
the reader with the main lines of discussion surrounding it."
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