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Donald Davidson (Paperback)
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Donald Davidson (Paperback)
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Donald Davidson's work has been of seminal importance in the
development of analytic philosophy and his views on the nature of
language, mind and action remain the starting point for many of the
central debates in the analytic tradition. His ideas, however, are
complex, often technical, and interconnected in ways that can make
them difficult to understand. This introduction to Davidson's
philosophy examines the full range of his writings to provide a
clear succinct overview of his ideas. This book begins with an
account of the assumptions and structure of Davidson's philosophy
of language, introducing his compositionalism, extensionalism and
commitment to a Tarski-style theory of truth as the model for
theories of meaning. It goes on to show how that philosophical
framework is to be applied and how it challenges the traditional
picture. Marc Joseph examines Davidson's influential work on action
theory and events and discusses the commonly made charge that his
theory of action and mind leaves the mental as a mere
'epiphenomenon' of the physical. The final section explores
Davidson's philosophy of mind, some of its consequences for
traditional views of subjectivity and objectivity and, more
generally, the relation between minded beings and the physical and
mental world they occupy.
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