Donald Davidson: a short introduction
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Beteilige Person: Glüer, Kathrin 1966- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press ©2011
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 313 pages)
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