Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation

by Davidson, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780198750468
• ISBN10: 0198750463
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1984-04-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Now in a new edition, this volume updates Davidson's exceptional Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (1984), which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. The original volume remains a central point of reference, and a focus of controversy, with its impact extending intolinguistic theory, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Addressing a central question--what it is for words to mean what they do--and featuring a previously uncollected, additional essay, this work will appeal to a wide audience of philosophers, linguists, and psychologists.

Table of Contents

inquiries Into Truth And Interpretation	p. i
Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation: Second Edition	p. iii
Provenance of the Essays and Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Truth and Meaning	p. 1
Theories of Meaning and Learnable Languages	p. 3
Truth and Meaning	p. 17
True to the Facts	p. 37
Semantics for Natural Languages	p. 55
In Defence of Convention T	p. 65
Applications	p. 77
Quotation	p. 79
On Saying That	p. 93
Moods and Performances	p. 109
Radical Interpretation	p. 123
Radical Interpretation	p. 125
Belief and the Basis of Meaning	p. 141
Thought and Talk	p. 155
Reply to Foster	p. 171
Language and Reality	p. 181
On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme	p. 183
The Method of Truth in Metaphysics	p. 199
Reality Without Reference	p. 215
The Inscrutability of Reference	p. 227
Limits of the Literal	p. 243
What Metaphors Mean	p. 245
Communication and Convention	p. 265
Appendix to Essay 10: Belief and the Basis of Meaning (1974)	p. 281
Bibliographical References	p. 287
Index	p. 293
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