Truth and Interpretation

Ernest LePore; James Higginbotham; Robert J. Matthews; Jerrold J. Katz; Akeel Bilgrami; Gilbert Harman; Barry Richards; Richard E. Grandy; Tyler Burge

ISBN 10: 0631169482 / ISBN 13: 9780631169482

Published by Blackwell (edition New Ed), 1991

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Synopsis:

Regardless of its particular topic, each of Donald Davidson's essays is part of a comprehensive progrqamme to address questions about language, mind and action, and their interconnections. Themes from this larger programme permeate and bind his work on semantics: on the notions of meaning and truth, on theories of truth, reference, logical form and inference, compositionality, 'intentional' operators, indeterminacy, conceptual relativism, skepticism and metaphor.

Twenty-eight critical essays, including a substantial introduction to Davidson's philosophy of language, and three essays by Davidson himself, make up this volume. The volume's six sections corespond to the major section of Davidson's inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. Each contains critical essays addressing, interpreting and further develoing his views. The first section, written by the editor, gives an overview of the whole volume, the second section focuses on truth and meaning; the third, applications of Davidson's semantic theory; the fourth, radical interpretation; the fifth, language and reality, and the sixth, limits of the literal.

About the Author: Ernest LePore is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Truth and Interpretation
Publisher: Blackwell (edition New Ed)
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Edition: New Ed.