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Essays On Davidson

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Author : Bruce Vermazen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1985

Essays On Davidson written by Bruce Vermazen and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This collection brings together previously unpublished works by well-known philosophers on the philosophy of action, the metaphysics of causality, and the philosophy of psychology. Nine of the essays directly discuss Donald Davidson's work on these topics, while three others challenge a Davidsonian approach through discussion of independent but related issues. These essays are followed by replies from Davidson, including a previously unpublished essay, "Adverbs of Action."

Essays On Actions And Events

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Author : Donald Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2001-09-27

Essays On Actions And Events written by Donald Davidson and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-27 with Philosophy categories.

Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays. This seminal work on the nature of human action features influential discussions of such topics as freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory.'a classic in its field.' P. F. Strawson -;Donald Davidson has prepared a new edition of his classic 1980 collection of Essays on Actions and Events, including two additional essays. In this seminal investigation of the nature of human action, Davidson argues for an ontology which includes events along with persons and other objects. Certain events are identified and explained as actions when they are viewed as caused and rationalized by reasons; these same events, when described in physical, biological, orphysiological terms, may be explained by appeal to natural laws. The mental and the physical thus constitute irreducibly discrete ways of explaining and understanding events and their causal relations.Among the topics discussed are: freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; the logic of practical reasoning; Hume's theory of the indirect passions; and the nature and limits of decision theory. The introduction, cross-references, and appendices emphasize the relations between the essays and explain how Davidson's views have developed.

Subjective Intersubjective Objective

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Author : Donald Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2001-09-27

Subjective Intersubjective Objective written by Donald Davidson and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-27 with Philosophy categories.

Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective is the long-awaited third volume of philosophical writings by Donald Davidson, whose influence on philosophy since the 1960s has been deep and broad. His first two collections, published by OUP in the early 1980s, are recognized as contemporary classics. Now Davidson presents a selection of his work on knowledge, mind, and language from the 1980s and the 1990s. We all have knowledge of our own minds, knowledge of the contents of other minds, and knowledge of the shared environment. Davidson examines the nature and status of each of these three sorts of knowledge, and the connections and differences among them. Along the way he has illuminating things to say about truth, human rationality, and the relations among language, thought, and the world. This new volume offers a rich and rewarding feast for anyone interested in philosophy today, and is essential reading for anyone working on its central topics.

Essays On Davidson

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Author : Bruce Vermazen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 1986

Essays On Davidson written by Bruce Vermazen and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Business & Economics categories.

Problems Of Rationality

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Author : Donald Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2004

Problems Of Rationality written by Donald Davidson and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Philosophy categories.

Donald Davidson's unified theory of the interpretation of thought, meaning, and action holds that rationality is a necessary condition for both mind and interpretation. Davidson here develops this theory to illuminate value judgements and how we understand them.

The Essential Davidson

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Author : Donald Davidson
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-01-12

The Essential Davidson written by Donald Davidson and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-12 with Philosophy categories.

The Essential Davidson compiles the most celebrated papers of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. It distils Donald Davidson's seminal contributions to our understanding of ourselves, from three decades of essays, into one thematically organized collection. A new, specially written introduction by Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, two of the world's leading authorities on his work, offers a guide through the ideas and arguments, shows how they interconnect,and reveals the systematic coherence of Davidson's worldview.Davidson's philosophical program is organized around two connected projects. The first is that of understanding the nature of human agency. The second is that of understanding the nature and function of language, and its relation to the world. Accordingly, the first part of the book presents Davidson's investigation of reasons, causes, and intentions, which revolutionized the philosophy of action. This leads to his notable doctrine of anomalous monism, the view that all mental events arephysical events, but that the mental cannot be reduced to the physical. The second part of the book presents the famous essays in which Davidson set out his highly original and influential philosophy of language, which founds the theory of meaning on the theory of truth.These fifteen classic essays will be invaluable for anyone interested in the study of mind and language. Fascinating though they are individually, it is only when drawn together that there emerges a compelling picture of man as a rational linguistic animal whose thoughts, though not reducible to the material, are part of the fabric of the world, and whose knowledge of his own mind, the minds of others, and the world around him is as fundamental to his nature as the power of thought and speechitself.

A Companion To Donald Davidson

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Author : Ernest Lepore
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-06-17

A Companion To Donald Davidson written by Ernest Lepore and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Philosophy categories.

A Companion to Donald Davidson presents newly commissioned essays by leading figures within contemporary philosophy. Taken together, they provide a comprehensive overview of Davidson’s work across its full range, and an assessment of his many contributions to philosophy. Highlights the breadth of Davidson's work across philosophy Demonstrates the continuing influence his work has on the philosophical community Includes newly commissioned contributions from leading figures in contemporary philosophy Provides an in-depth exposition and analysis of Davidson's work across the range of areas to which he contributed, including philosophy of action, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind

Truth Language And History

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Author : Donald Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005

Truth Language And History written by Donald Davidson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Continuing to explore the themes that have occupied him for more than 50 years, Donald Davidson looks at the philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of the mind in order to make interconnections between his own views and some of the major philosophers of the past.

Donald Davidson

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Author : Kirk Ludwig
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-21

Donald Davidson written by Kirk Ludwig and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-21 with Philosophy categories.

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