Bücher von Donald Davidson

Der Vordenker der zeitgenössischen analytischen Philosophie, Donald Davidson, und der Mitbegründer des philosophischen Neopragmatismus, Richard Rorty, führten seit den siebziger Jahren eine vielbeachtete Debatte über die Bedeutung, die dem Wahrheitsbegriff in der Philosophie zukommt. Ausgangspunkt war die Verabschiedung des erklärenden Wahrheitsverständnisses. An seine Stelle tritt bei Davidson und Rorty die interpretationistische Analyse unseres Gebrauchs von »wahr«. Strittig ist die Frage, ob und wie zitattilgende, billigende und warnende Verwendungsweisen miteinander zusammenhängen und was daraus für die Wahrheit als Grundproblem der Philosophie folgt. Die ausgewählten Schlüsseltexte stammen aus den Jahren 1974 bis 2000 und erscheinen zum großen Teil erstmals in deutscher Sprache.

Compiling the celebrated papers of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers, this volume distils Donald Davidson's seminal contributions to the understanding of language, the mind, action, and knowledge. It is useful for those seeking a reference point for some of the most brilliant and influential academic writing of modern times.

Comprising Donald Davidson's philosophical writings, this work explores the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between language and the world; speaker intention and linguistic meaning; language and mind; mind and body; mind and world; and mind and other minds.

Donald Davidson's unified theory of the interpretation of thought, meaning, and action holds that rationality is a necessary condition for both mind and interpretation. Here, he develops this theory to illuminate value judgements and how we understand them, and to investigate what the conditions are for attributing mental states to an object.

This investigation of the nature of human action argues for an ontology which includes events along with persons and other objects. Among the topics discussed are: freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; and decision theory.

A third volume of philosophical writings by Donald Davidson, whose influence on philosophy since the 1960s has been deep and broad. His ideas have continued to flow since the previous volumes and he presents a selection of his best work on knowledge, mind, and language from the 1980s and 90s.

A decade and more has passed since the first publication of Still Rebels, Still Yankees. During that time the book has become recognised as a classic affirmation of the necessity of tradition in conserving cultural order.

Uproariously funny and filled with choice narration, The Big Ballad Jamboree is Donald Davidson's only novel. He set his story - the romance of hillbilly and country singer Danny MacGregor with folk singer and ballad scholar Cissy Timberlake - in the fictional western North Carolina town of Carolina City during the summer of 1949.