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Aug 2011
ISBN 0262015560
384 pp.
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Dialogues with Davidson
Jeff Malpas

The work of the philosopher Donald Davidson (1917--2003) is not only wide ranging in its influence and vision, but also in the breadth of issues that it encompasses. Davidson's work includes seminal contributions to philosophy of language and mind, to philosophy of action, and to epistemology and metaphysics.In Dialogues with Davidson, leading scholars engage with Davidson's work as it connects not only with aspects of current analytic thinking but also with a wider set of perspectives, including those of hermeneutics, phenomenology, the history of philosophy, feminist epistemology, and contemporary social theory. They link Davidson's work to other thinkers, including Collingwood, Kant, Derrida, Heidegger, and Gadamer.The essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Davidson's philosophy, not only in terms of the philosophical relevance of the ideas he advanced, but also in the further connections and insights those ideas engender.

Table of Contents
 Foreword
by Dagfinn Follesdal
 Acknowledgments
 Introduction: Davidson and Contemporary Philosophy
by Jeff Malpas
I On Language, Mind, and World
1 Davidson versus Descartes
by Richard Rorty
2 What Subjectivity Isn't
by David Couzens Hoy and Christoph Durt
3 Davidson, Derrida, and Differance
by Samuel C. Wheeler III
4 Davidson, Kant, and Double-Aspect Ontologies
by Gordon G. Brittan, Jr.
5 Interpretive Semantics and Ontological Commitment
by Richard N. Manning
6 Davidson, Heidegger, and Truth
by Mark Okrent
7 Davidson and the Demise of Representationalism
by Giancarlo Marchetti
8 Method and Metaphysics: Pragmatist Doubts
by Bjorn Ramberg
II On Interpretation and Understanding
9 Davidson's Reading of Gadamer: Triangulation, Conversation, and the Analytic¿¿¿Continental Divide
by Lee Braver
10 In Gadamer's Neighborhood
by Robert Dostal
11 The Relevance of Radical Interpretation to the Understanding of Mind
by Jonathan Ellis
12 Incommensurability in Davidson and Gadamer
by Barbara Fultner
13 Davidson, Gadamer, Incommensurability, and the Third Dogma of Empiricism
by David Vessey
14 What Is Common to All: Davidson on Agreement and Understanding
by Jeff Malpas
III On Action, Reason, and Knowledge
15 Davidson and the Autonomy of the Human Sciences
by Giuseppina D'Oro
16 Interpreting Davidson on Intentional Action
by Frederick Stoutland
17 Evaluative Attitudes
by Gerhard Preyer
18 Davidson's Normativity
by Stephen Turner
19 Davidson and the Source of Self-Knowledge
by Louise Roska-Hardy
20 Radical Interpretation, Feminism, and Science
by Sharyn Clough
 Bibliography
 Contributors
 Index
 
 


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