Language, Mind and Epistemology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Philosophy of Language

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Meaning, Holism and the Problem of Extensionality

      • Jerry Fodor, Ernie Lepore

      Pages 3-19

   3. Davidson’s Use of Truth in Accounting for Meaning

      • Olav Gjelsvik

      Pages 21-43

   4. Was Ist Wahrheit?

      • Wilhelm K. Essler

      Pages 45-53

   5. Eigennamen und Kennzeichnungen — Anmerkungen zur Sogenannten Frege-Russell-Theorie

      • Arend Kulenkampff

      Pages 55-76

3. Epistemology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Quine and Davidson: Two Naturalized Epistemologists

      • Roger F. Gibson

      Pages 79-95

   3. Davidson and Quine on Observation Sentences

      • Eva Picardi

      Pages 97-116

   4. Events and Externalism

      • Ralf Naumann

      Pages 117-144

   5. Conceptual Relativism and Translation

      • Dorit Bar-On

      Pages 145-170

   6. Conceptual Schemes after Davidson

      • David K. Henderson

      Pages 171-197

   7. Singular Causal Sentences and Two Relational Views

      • Frank Siebelt

      Pages 199-219

4. Philosophy of Mind and Theory of Action

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. The Inadequacy of Anomalous Monism as a Realist Theory of Mind

      • Louise M. Antony

      Pages 223-253

   3. Internalism, Externalism, and Davidson’s Conception of the Mental

      • Louise Röska-Hardy

      Pages 255-297

   4. Dividing the Self

      • Marcia Cavell

      Pages 299-311

   5. Willensschwäche — Wie Ist das Nur Möglich?

      • Ralf Stoecker

      Pages 313-338

   6. Davidson on Intentional Content and Self-Knowledge

      • Klaus Puhl

      Pages 339-352

   7. Sharing Beliefs and the Myth of the Subjective

      • Johannes Brandl

      Pages 353-366

Professor Donald Davidson is one of the most innovative and influential recent philosophers. Ranging over a variety of topics in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and epistemology, his system of thought is unified by his inquiries into the nature of interpretation and understanding the speech and behavior of others.
Together with its introduction, Language, Mind and Epistemology examines Davidson's unified stance towards philosophy by joining American and European authors within a collection of essays, published here for the first time. The authors discuss the central topics in Davidson's latest philosophy: his holistic truth-theoretic stance towards meaning and understanding, the epistemology of interpretation and translation, the externalist viewpoint in epistemology, the anti-Cartesian approach in accounting for first person authority, the thesis of anomalous monism, and the holistic conception of the mental.

• Donald Davidson
• epistemology
• knowledge
• language
• mind
• philosophy of language
• subject
• truth

`The present volume is one among a number of evidences of the new openness to the pleasures and advantages of the free exchange of ideas drawn from philosophical cultures that until recently often seemed so disparate as to preclude productive conversation. '
Donald Davidson

• Johann W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  Gerhard Preyer, Frank Siebelt, Alexander Ulfig

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