Inquiries Into Truth and InterpretationClarendon Press, 1984 - 292 pages Now in a new edition, this volume updates Davidson's exceptional Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (1984), which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. The original volume remains a central point of reference, and a focus of controversy, with its impact extending intolinguistic theory, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Addressing a central question--what it is for words to mean what they do--and featuring a previously uncollected, additional essay, this work will appeal to a wide audience of philosophers, linguists, and psychologists. |
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Language and Reality | 181 |
On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme 1974 | 183 |
The Method of Truth in Metaphysics 1977 | 199 |
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