Donald Davidson: a short introduction
Donald Davidson was one of the 20th Century's deepest analytic thinkers. He developed a systematic picture of the human mind and its relation to the world, an original and sustained vision that exerted a shaping influence well beyond analytic philosophy of mind and language. At its center is an idea of minded creatures as essentially rational animals: Rational animals can be interpreted, their behavior can be understood, and the contents of their thoughts are, in principle, open to others. The …
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- Full title :Donald Davidson : a short introduction / Kathrin Glüer.
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Donald Davidson was one of the 20th Century's deepest analytic thinkers. He developed a systematic picture of the human mind and its relation to the world, an original and sustained vision that exerted a shaping influence well beyond analytic philosophy of mind and language. At its center is an idea of minded creatures as essentially rational animals: Rational animals can be interpreted, their behavior can be understood, and the contents of their thoughts are, in principle, open to others. The combination of a rigorous analytic stance with aspects of humanism so distinctive of Davidsonian thou.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
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- Description:1 online resource (vii, 313 pages)
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- ISBN:9780199910106, 0199910103, 128059537X, 9781280595370, 9780190267469, 0190267461
- oclc:ocn777401241
- LC Classification:B945.D384
- Dewey Decimal:191
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Radical interpretation: Davidson's philosophy of language -- The principle of charity -- Davidson's theory of action -- Language, mind, and world -- The mental and the physical.
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