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Reply to JJC SmartIn Bruce Vermazen & Merrill B. Hintikka (eds.), Essays on Davidson: actions and events, Oxford University Press. pp. 244--47. 1985.
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1Replies to essaysIn Bruce Vermazen & Merrill B. Hintikka (eds.), Essays on Davidson: actions and events, Oxford University Press. 1985.
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1Replies to Essays X-XIIn Bruce Vermazen & Merrill B. Hintikka (eds.), Essays on Davidson: actions and events, Oxford University Press. pp. 242--252. 1985.
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Reply to Harry LewisIn Bruce Vermazen & Merrill B. Hintikka (eds.), Essays on Davidson: actions and events, Oxford University Press. pp. 242--244. 1985.
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219Psychology as philosophyIn Stuart C. Brown (ed.), Philosophy Of Psychology, : Macmillan. pp. 41-52. 1974.This essay develops the relation, implicit in Essay 11, of intentional action to behaviour described in purely physical terms; Davidson repeats from Essay 3 that an action counts as intentional if the agent caused it, and asks to which degree a study of action thus conceived permits being scientific. Davidson stresses the central importance of a normative concept of rationality in attributing reasons to agents ; because this concept has no echo in physical theory, any explanatory schema governed…Read more
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5Representation and InterpretationIn Problems of rationality, Oxford University Press. pp. 13-26. 2004.
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In Defense of Convention TIn Hugues Leblanc (ed.), Truth, Syntax and Modality, North-holland. 1973.
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3On Events and Event-DescriptionsIn Joseph Margolis (ed.), Fact and existence, Blackwell. pp. 74--84. 1969.
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2The material mindIn Patrick Suppes (ed.), Logic, methodology and philosophy of science, American Elsevier Pub. Co.. 1973.
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81A coherence theory of truth and knowledgeIn Ernest LePore (ed.), Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Blackwell. pp. 307-319. 1986.
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9Agent, Action, and ReasonIn Robert Williams Binkley, Richard N. Bronaugh & Ausonio Marras (eds.), Agent, action, and reason, University of Toronto Press. 1971.
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Epistemologia e veritàIn Alessandro Pagnini (ed.), Realismo/antirealismo: aspetti del dibattito epistemologico contemporaneo, La Nuova Italia. 1995.
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1A coherence theory of truth and knowledgeIn Ernest LePore (ed.), Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Blackwell. 1986.
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14Freedom to actIn Ted Honderich (ed.), Essays on Freedom of Action, Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1973.
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8La contingenza dei fatti e l'oggettivita dei valori (edited book)Mimesis. 2013.L’idea che vi sia una netta dicotomia tra fatti e valori è uno dei dogmi dell’empirismo. Secondo questa concezione, i giudizi fattuali, in quanto verificabili o falsificabili empiricamente, riguardano le aree di razionalità «pura» e omogenea e sono ancorati naturalisticamente al mondo. Gli enunciati di valore, invece, sarebbero da relegare nella sfera di ciò che è semplicemente «soggettivo», emotivo, irrazionale. Questo assunto, che ha dominato per molto tempo le scienze e la filosofia, è stato …Read more
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5Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosphical Essays, Volume 2Oxford University Press UK. 2001.'Davidson, aside from being one of the most influential philosophers of the last century, shares with many of his generation a capacity to write intelligibly.' -The Philosophers' MagazineDonald Davidson presents a new edition of the 1984 volume which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation has been a central point of reference and a focus of controversy in the subject ever since, and its influence has extended into linguistic theory, phi…Read more
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9Essays on Actions and Events: Philosphical Essays, Volume 1Oxford University Press UK. 2001.Review from other book by this author `...these intriguing views are ingeniously argued and fruitfully provocative.' Philosophy. 'Review from previous edition 'it must be said that this is one of the most impressive works of analytical philosophy to appear for a good many years.' -Peter Strawson, Times Literary Supplement 'Review from previous edition 'it must be said that this is one of the most impressive works of analytical philosophy to appear for a good many years... The positions adopted a…Read more
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739A Nice Derangement of EpitaphsIn Ernest LePore (ed.), Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Blackwell. pp. 433--446. 1986.This essay argues that in linguistic communication, nothing corresponds to a linguistic competence as summarized by the three principles of first meaning in language: that first meaning is systematic, first meanings are shared, and first meanings are governed by learned conventions or regularities. There is no such a thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which lang…Read more
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1872Mental EventsIn Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays Volume 1, Clarendon Press. pp. 207-224. 1970.
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