Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation

2. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-924629-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 407 g

Donald Davidson presents a new edition of the 1984 volume which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation has been a central point of reference and a focus of controversy in the subject ever since, and its influence has extended into linguistic theory, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. This new edition features an additional essay, previously uncollected.
The central question which these essays address is what it is for words to mean what they do. Davidson argues that a philosophically instructive theory of meaning should acknowledge the holistic nature of linguistic understanding, in that it should provide an interpretation of all utterances, actual and potential, of a speaker or group of speakers; and that it should not rely upon the concepts it attempts to explain, in that it should be verifiable independently of knowledge of the detailed propositional attitudes of the speaker. Among the topics covered in the essays are the relation between theories of truth and theories of meaning, translation, quotation, belief, radical interpretation, reference, metaphor, and communication.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidson, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface to the Second Edition

- Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgements

- Introduction

- Truth and Meaning

- 2: Truth and Meaning (1967)

- 3: True to the Facts (1969)

- 4: Semantics for Natural Languages (1970)

- 5: In Defence of Convention T (1973)

- Applications

- 7: On Saying That (1968)

- 8: Moods and Performances (1979)

- Radical Interpretation

- 10: Belief and the Basis of Meaning

- Appendix to Essay 10: Reply to Quine and Lewis (1974)

- 11: Thought and Talk (1975)

- 12: Reply to Foster (1976)

- Language and Reality

- 14: The Method of Truth in Metaphysics

- 15: Reality Without Reference (1977)

- 16: The Inscrutibility of Reference (1979)

- Limits of the Literal

- 18: Communication and Convention (1982)

- Bibliographical References, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Donald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Davidson is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in classical philosophy after serving in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. Before coming to Berkeley in 1981, he was Professor at Stanford, Princeton, Rockefeller, and the University of Chicago. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.