In this chapter, the author describes the work of Donald Davidson in philosophy of language
as a manifestation of a willingness to drop the idea of" intrinsic nature," a willingness to face …

Donald Davidson is, arguably, the most important philosopher of mind and language in
recent decades. His articulation of the position he called" anomalous monism" and his ideas …

Donald Davidson has famously denied that linguistic communication requires convention.
Since about the same time, the philosophy of language has been echoing with the Kripkean …

I have found in teaching courses on philosophy of language that one can concentrate either
on the problem of reference or the problem of meaning, not on both and still teach a …

This book is an introduction to and interpretation of the philosophy of language devised by
Donald Davidson over the past 25 years. The guiding intuition is that Davidson's work is best …

Davidson's philosophy of language and mind, among other things, has taught us to think
about the nature of language without a central place being given to the idea of convention …

As Davidson says, commenting on this difference between himself and Tarski on natural
language,'the task of a theory of meaning as I conceive it is not to change, improve, or reform …

What is language? How does it relate to the world? How does it relate to the mind? Should
our view of language influence our view of the world? These are among the central issues …

What does this iconoclasm do to Davidson's philosophy of language? Is there no longer
language for there to be philosophy of? When we turn to Davidson's second volume of …

The late 20th century saw great movement in the philosophy of language, often critical of the
fathers of the subject--Gottlieb Frege and Bertrand Russell--but sometimes supportive of (or …