A Companion to Donald Davidson

A Companion to Donald Davidson presents newly commissioned essays by leading figures within contemporary philosophy. Taken together, they provide a comprehensive overview of Davidson's work across its full range, and an assessment of his many contributions to philosophy. Highlights the breadth of Davidson's work across philosophy Demonstrates the continuing influence his work h...

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A Companion to Donald Davidson presents newly commissioned essays by leading figures within contemporary philosophy. Taken together, they provide a comprehensive overview of Davidson's work across its full range, and an assessment of his many contributions to philosophy. Highlights the breadth of Davidson's work across philosophy Demonstrates the continuing influence his work has on the philosophical community Includes newly commissioned contributions from leading figures in contemporary philosophy Provides an in-depth exposition and analysis of Davidson's work across the range of areas to which he contributed, including philosophy of action, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind

Ernie Lepore is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is currently Acting Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, and a professor at Rutgers University. He is the co-author with Herman Cappelen of Insensitive Semantics (Blackwell, 2004) and Language Turned On Itself (2007) and co-author with Kirk Ludwig of Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language an...

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Ernie Lepore is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is currently Acting Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, and a professor at Rutgers University. He is the co-author with Herman Cappelen of Insensitive Semantics (Blackwell, 2004) and Language Turned On Itself (2007) and co-author with Kirk Ludwig of Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality (2005) and Donald Davidson's Truth-theoretic Semantics (2007). He is editor of the Handbook of Philosophy of Language (with B. Smith, 2006) and general editor of the Blackwell series Philosophers and Their Critics. Kirk Ludwig is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of Donald Davidson. He is the editor of the volume on Donald Davidson (2003) in the Cambridge Contemporary Philosophy in Focus series, and he is co-author with Ernie Lepore (Rutgers) of Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality (2005) and Donald Davidson's Truth-theoretic Semantics (2007).

Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction: Life and Work
1 Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig
Part I Action Theory 13
1 Action Explanation 15 Ralf Stoecker
2 Practical Reason 32 Agnes Callard
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Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction: Life and Work
1 Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig
Part I Action Theory 13
1 Action Explanation 15 Ralf Stoecker
2 Practical Reason 32 Agnes Callard
3 Action Individuation 48 Hugh J. McCann
4 Freedom to Act 62 Olav Gjelsvik
5 Intention 75 Luca Ferrero Part II Metaphysics 91
6 Event Variables and Their Values 93 Paul M. Pietroski
7 Causation 126 John Heil
8 Davidson's "Method of Truth" in Metaphysics 141 William G. Lycan
9 The Concept of Truth 156 Michael Glanzberg
Part III Philosophy of Language 173
10 Truth in the Theory of Meaning 175 Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig
11 Parataxis 191 Adam Sennet
12 Logical Form 208 Miguel Hoeltje
13 Radical Interpretation and the Principle of Charity 225 Peter Pagin
14 Davidson's Measurement-Theoretic Analogy 247 Piers Rawling
15 Reference 264 J. Robert G. Williams
16 Language and Thought 287 A.P. Martinich
17 Conceptual Schemes 300 David Henderson
18 Interpretation and Value 314 Robert H. Myers
19 Predication 328 Jeff Speaks
20 Convention and Meaning 339 Kathrin Gluer
21 Metaphor and Varieties of Meaning 361 Elisabeth Camp
22 Davidson and Literary Theory 379 Samuel C. Wheeler
III Part IV Philosophy of Mind 393
23 The Larger Philosophical Signifi cance of Holism 395 Carol Rovane
24 Anomalous Monism 410 Brian P. McLaughlin
25 Triangular Externalism 443 Sven Bernecker
26 Triangulation 456 Claudine Verheggen
27 Rationality as a Constitutive Ideal 472 Michael Rescorla
28 Irrationality 489 Sarah Stroud
29 The Rationality of the Emotions 506 Mitchell Green
Part V Epistemology 519
30 Davidson and Radical Skepticism 521 Duncan Pritchard
31 First-Person Authority 533 William Child
32 Knowledge of Other Minds in Davidson's Philosophy 550 Anita Avramides Part VI Influences and Influence 565
33 Quine and Davidson 567 Hans-Johann Glock
34 Davidson and Contemporary Philosophy 588 Pascal Engel
Name Index 605
General Index 609
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