Dialogues with Davidson: Acting, Interpreting, Understanding

✍ Scribed by Jeff Malpas (editor)

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 508
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"There is a philosophical vision at work in Davidson's thinking that exceeds in importance and attraction his masterly analyses of meaning and action even while it matches them in subtlety. This volume brings that vision to the fore, engaging with it, as well as with other aspects of the Davidsonian position, in a way that demonstrates its intrinsic significance as well as its connection with the mainstream of contemporary thought." Dieter Henrich , Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Munich

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
I On Language, Mind, and World......Page 28
1 Davidson versus Descartes......Page 30
2 What Subjectivity Isn’t......Page 34
3 Davidson, Derrida, and Differance......Page 56
4 Davidson, Kant, and Double-Aspect Ontologies......Page 70
5 Interpretive Semantics and Ontological Commitment......Page 88
6 Davidson, Heidegger, and Truth......Page 114
7 Davidson and the Demise of Representationalism......Page 140
8 Method and Metaphysics......Page 156
II On Interpretation and Understanding......Page 174
9 Davidson’s Reading of Gadamer......Page 176
10 In Gadamer’s Neighborhood......Page 194
11 The Relevance of Radical Interpretation to theUnderstanding of Mind......Page 218
12 Incommensurability in Davidson and Gadamer......Page 246
13 Davidson, Gadamer, Incommensurability, and the Third Dogma of Empiricism......Page 268
14 What Is Common to All......Page 286
III On Action, Reason, and Knowledge......Page 308
15 Davidson and the Autonomy of the Human Sciences......Page 310
16 Interpreting Davidson on Intentional Action......Page 324
17 Evaluative Attitudes......Page 352
18 Davidson’s Normativity......Page 370
19 Davidson and the Source of Self-Knowledge......Page 398
20 Radical Interpretation, Feminism, and Science......Page 432
Bibliography......Page 454
Contributors......Page 480
Index......Page 484