Reflecting Davidson
Subtitle: Donald Davidson Responding to an International Forum of Philosophers (Foundations of Communication)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: October 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9783110131802
Subjects: Analytical & linguistic philosophy; Philosophy of language; Reference; American Philosophy (20th Century); Philosophy; USA; History & Surveys - Modern; Davidson, Donald; Congresses; 1917-; Davidson, Donald,
First sentence: The governing idea of Professor Davidson's inquiries into truth and interpretation I take to be this: We would know "what it is for words to mean what they do" if we knew how to construct a theory of "radical interpretation" for a natural language.