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Donald Davidson as an Analytic Phenomenologist: Husserl and Davidson on Anomalous Monism and Action
This paper puts the theories of Donald Davidson into conversation with those of Edmund Husserl, arguing that their work can be read as representing...
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Can There be Thought Without Words?—Donald Davidson on Language and Animal Minds
In a couple of short papers, Donald Davidson holds that a creature cannot think unless it is the interpreter of the speech of another. At first...
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On Davidson Against Language as Conventional
Davidson (in: LePore (ed), pp 433–46, 1986) uses the existence of malapropisms to motivate a model of linguistic communication where communication...
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Davidson, first-person authority, and direct self-knowledge
Donald Davidson famously offered an explanation of “first-person authority” (1984). However, he described first-person authority differently across...
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Analytic Philosophy of Language (Wittgenstein, Sellars, Quine, Davidson, Kuhn)
In this chapter we focus on Rorty’s core commitments with respect to language, and consider their role in Rorty’s stormy relations to mainstream...
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Davidsonian Metasemantics and Radical Interpretation
In the current debate on the metaphysical grounding of semantic properties Donald Davidson is usually taken to represent interpretationism, a stance...
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Davidson on Emotions and Values
Although Davidson has never written specifically on emotions, we can reconstruct his views from his writings on attitudes and values. He defends a...
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Analytic Philosophy of Language(Wittgenstein, Sellars, Quine, Davidson,Kuhn)
In this chapter we focus on Rorty’s core commitments with respect to language, and consider their role in Rorty’s stormy relations to mainstream...
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The Systematicity of Davidson’s Anti-skeptical Arguments
Donald Davidson contributed more deeply to our understanding of language, thought, and reality than perhaps any other recent philosopher. His...
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Literary Méditations Hégéliennes
The next chapter develops the previous case for postructuralism by contending that the work of W.V.O Quine, and in particular, Donald Davidson, have...
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Analytische Philosophie (IV): Hilary Putnam und Donald Davidson
Hilary Putnam (1926–2016) ist seit der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ohne Zweifel einer der einflussreichsten Denker in der analytischen...
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Donald Davidson on Action, Mind and Value
This book brings together a wide range of innovative reflections on the pivotal role that Davidson’s concept of agency plays in his later philosophy...
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The Philosophy of Place and the Place of Philosophy
The text provides an overview of a current in contemporary phenomenology and hermeneutics that puts place at the center of its thinking and seeks to...
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The Dialectical Principle of Charity: A Procedure for a Critical Discussion
This paper aims to discuss a well-known concept from argumentation theory, namely the principle of charity. It will show that this principle,...
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Why are Actions but not Emotions Done Intentionally, if both are Reason-Responsive Embodied Processes?
Emotions, like actions, this paper argues, are typically embodied processes that are responsive to reasons, where these reasons connect closely with...
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Disagreement in Religion
This chapter demonstrates the relevance of the conclusions in Chaps. 6 and 7...
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Disagreement from the Radical Interpreter’s Point of View
This chapter introduces Donald Davidson’s thoughts on interpretation in their relevance to the book’s subject matter. It argues that there is a...
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Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1 (1991)
Der vorliegende Beitrag rekonstruiert die argumentativen Grundlinien der Aufsätze in Objectivity, Relativism and Truth. Rortys scharfe Kritik am...
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“The Only Strictly Correct Method of Philosophy”: Logical Analysis and Anti-Metaphysical Dialectic
The Tractatus revolves around the connection between two central topics – the preconditions of symbolic representation and the nature of...
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Unconventional Linguistic Normativity: Maybe Not So Deranged After All
This paper argues that Donald Davidson’s infamous denial in “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs” that there is any such thing as a language, though it...