Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays Volume 3 (The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (5 Volumes)) - Hardcover

Davidson, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198237529 ISBN 13: 9780198237525

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2001

Synopsis

A third volume of philosophical writings by Donald Davidson, whose influence on philosophy since the 1960s has been deep and broad. Davidson's first two collections were published by OUP in the early 1980s, His ideas have continued to flow, and here he presents a selection of his best work on knowledge, mind, and language from the 1980s and 90s.

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Review:

There is a wealth of fascinating ideas here ... Davidson's project is ambitious, but his vision is immensely powerful and its execution highly ingenious. It is a very considerable achievement at the intersection of epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. (Philosophical Investigations)

Davidson writes philosophy like Wagner wrote operas: nothing less than everything is ever at stake. (Jerry Fodor, London Review of Books)

Ces essais contiennent les principes de sa théorie de la connaissance. Réconcilier, comme ce volume s'en donne le programme, connaissance de soi, connaissance d'autrui, et connaissance du monde commun, n'est pas un programme aisé. Quoi qu'il en soit, l'ambition est là, et la constance, la profondeur de la recherche de Davidson depuis une vingtaine d'années sont manifestes. A peu près tous les thèmes classiques de la philosophie analytique sont ici retravaillés, approfondis, et modifiés, dans une prose extrêmement travaillée. Peu de philosophes ont eu une influence si forte sur la philosophie de ces derniè res dé cennies, aussi bien dans les pays anglophones qu'en Europe. Qu'on suive ou non Davidson dans son ambitieux projet, qui ne vise rien moins qu'à concilier naturalisme et normativité, la lecture de ce volume est un must. (Pascal Engel, Revue Philosophique)

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0198237529
• ISBN 13: 9780198237525
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256