TY  - BOOK
AU  - de Caro,Mario
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Interpretations and Causes: New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy 
T2  - Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science,
SN  - 9789401592277
AV  - P101-120 
U1  - 149.94 23
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Language and languages—Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy of mind
KW  - Modern philosophy
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - Philosophy of Language
KW  - History of Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy of Mind
KW  - Modern Philosophy
N1  - Davidson in Focus -- Interpretation: Hard in Theory, Easy in Practice -- I. Language, Metaphysics, and Mind -- Davidson and Understanding Language -- Radical Interpretation, Logic, and Conceptual Schemes -- Donald Davidson’s Freedom -- Physicalism and the Anomalism of the Mental -- Anomalous Monism -- Thirty-five Years after “Actions, Reasons, and Causes”: What Has Become of Davidson’s Causal Theory of Action? -- Davidson on Rationality and Irrationality -- II. Externalism -- “Cred’io ch’ei credette ch’io credesse...”. What basis for belief? -- First Person Authority and Memory -- Sensory Evidence and Shared Interests -- Owning One’s Mind -- Is There a Problem about Davidson’s Externalism vis a-vis His Holism? -- Internalism and Scepticism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
N2  - Many articles and books dealing with Donald Davidson's philosophy are dedicated to the papers and ideas Davidson put forward in the `sixties and `seventies. In the last two decades, however, Davidson has continued to work in many areas of philosophy, offering new contributions, many of which are highly regarded by philosophers working in the fields concerned. For instance, Davidson has considerably developed his ideas about interpretation, theory of meaning, irreducibility of the mental, causation, and action theory; he has proposed an innovative externalist conception of the mental content and a new analysis of the concept of truth; and he has partly modified his theses about event, and the supervenience of the mental on the physical. In Interpretations and Causes, some of the leading contemporary analytic philosophers discuss Davidson's new ideas in a lively, relevant, useful, and not always entirely sympathetic way. Davidson himself offers and original contribution
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9227-7
ER  -