Truth, Language, and History by Donald Davidson - 9780198237570

Truth, Language, and HistoryPhilosophical Essays Volume 5\nAuthor(s): Donald Davidson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780198237570, 978-0198237570\nSynopsis\nTruth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In the four groups of essays that comprise it, Davidson continues to explore 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; mind and other minds. He asks: what is the role of the concept of truth in these explorations? And, can a scientific world view make room for human thought without reducing it to something material and mechanistic? \n\nDavidson's underlying picture, which can be seen in many of these essays, is that we are acquainted directly with the world, not indirectly via some interm.