Interpretations and Causes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Davidson in Focus

   1. Davidson in Focus

      • Mario De Caro

      Pages 1-29

3. Interpretation: Hard in Theory, Easy in Practice

   1. Interpretation: Hard in Theory, Easy in Practice

      • Donald Davidson

      Pages 31-44

4. Language, Metaphysics, and Mind

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Davidson and Understanding Language

      • Ernest Lepore

      Pages 47-70

   3. Radical Interpretation, Logic, and Conceptual Schemes

      • Neil Tennant

      Pages 71-93

   4. Donald Davidson’s Freedom

      • Ted A. Warfield

      Pages 95-100

   5. Physicalism and the Anomalism of the Mental

      • Sandro Nannini

      Pages 101-116

   6. Anomalous Monism

      • Paolo Leonardi

      Pages 117-124

   7. Thirty-Five Years after “Actions, Reasons, and Causes”: What has Become of Davidson’s Causal Theory of Action?

      • Antonio Rainone

      Pages 125-135

   8. Davidson on Rationality and Irrationality

      • Simone Gozzano

      Pages 137-149

5. Externalism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. “Cred’io ch’ei credette ch’io credesse…”: What basis for belief?

      • Rosaria Egidi

      Pages 153-158

   3. First Person Authority and Memory

      • Peter Ludlow

      Pages 159-170

   4. Sensory Evidence and Shared Interests

      • Eva Picardi

      Pages 171-185

   5. Owning One’s Mind

      • Marcia Cavell

      Pages 187-200

   6. Is There a Problem about Davidson’s Externalism Vis-a-Vis His Holism?

      • Raffaella De Rosa

      Pages 201-215

   7. Internalism and Scepticism

      • Akeel Bilgrami

      Pages 217-249

6. Back Matter

   Pages 251-272

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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.

• Donald Davidson
• freedom
• idea
• language
• logic
• metaphysics
• mind
• reason
• scepticism
• truth

• Università Roma Tre, Italy

  Mario Caro

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