Ernest Lepore & Kirk Ludwig 
A Companion to Donald Davidson [PDF ebook] 

A Companion to Donald Davidson presents newly
commissioned essays by leading figures within contemporary
philosophy. Taken together, they provide a comprehensive overview
of Davidson’s work across its full range, and an assessment
of his many contributions to philosophy.

* Highlights the breadth of Davidson’s work across
philosophy

* Demonstrates the continuing influence his work has on the
philosophical community

* Includes newly commissioned contributions from leading figures
in contemporary philosophy

* Provides an in-depth exposition and analysis of Davidson’s work
across the range of areas to which he contributed, including
philosophy of action, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of
language, and philosophy of mind

Table des matières

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction: Life and Work 1

Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig

Part I Action Theory 13

1 Action Explanation 15

Ralf Stoecker

2 Practical Reason 32

Agnes Callard

3 Action Individuation 48

Hugh J. Mc Cann

4 Freedom to Act 62

Olav Gjelsvik

5 Intention 75

Luca Ferrero

Part II Metaphysics 91

6 Event Variables and Their Values 93

Paul M. Pietroski

7 Causation 126

John Heil

8 Davidson’s ‘Method of Truth’ in Metaphysics
141

William G. Lycan

9 The Concept of Truth 156

Michael Glanzberg

Part III Philosophy of Language 173

10 Truth in the Theory of Meaning 175

Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig

11 Parataxis 191

Adam Sennet

12 Logical Form 208

Miguel Hoeltje

13 Radical Interpretation and the Principle of Charity 225

Peter Pagin

14 Davidson’s Measurement-Theoretic Analogy 247

Piers Rawling

15 Reference 264

J. Robert G. Williams

16 Language and Thought 287

A.P. Martinich

17 Conceptual Schemes 300

David Henderson

18 Interpretation and Value 314

Robert H. Myers

19 Predication 328

Jeff Speaks

20 Convention and Meaning 339

Kathrin Glüer

21 Metaphor and Varieties of Meaning 361

Elisabeth Camp

22 Davidson and Literary Theory 379

Samuel C. Wheeler III

Part IV Philosophy of Mind 393

23 The Larger Philosophical Signifi cance of Holism 395

Carol Rovane

24 Anomalous Monism 410

Brian P. Mc Laughlin

25 Triangular Externalism 443

Sven Bernecker

26 Triangulation 456

Claudine Verheggen

27 Rationality as a Constitutive Ideal 472

Michael Rescorla

28 Irrationality 489

Sarah Stroud

29 The Rationality of the Emotions 506

Mitchell Green

Part V Epistemology 519

30 Davidson and Radical Skepticism 521

Duncan Pritchard

31 First-Person Authority 533

William Child

32 Knowledge of Other Minds in Davidson’s Philosophy
550

Anita Avramides

Part VI Influences and Influence 565

33 Quine and Davidson 567

Hans-Johann Glock

34 Davidson and Contemporary Philosophy 588

Pascal Engel

Name Index 605

General Index 609

A propos de l’auteur

Ernie Lepore is an American philosopher and cognitive
scientist. He is currently Acting Director of the Rutgers Center
for Cognitive Science, and a professor at Rutgers University. He is
the co-author with Herman Cappelen of Insensitive Semantics
(Blackwell, 2004) and Language Turned On Itself (2007) and
co-author with Kirk Ludwig of Donald Davidson: Meaning,
Truth, Language and Reality (2005) and Donald Davidson’s
Truth-theoretic Semantics (2007). He is editor of the
Handbook of Philosophy of Language (with B. Smith, 2006) and
general editor of the Blackwell series Philosophers and Their
Critics.

Kirk Ludwig is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana
University, Bloomington. He earned his Ph D from the University
of California, Berkeley, under the direction of Donald Davidson. He
is the editor of the volume on Donald Davidson (2003)
in the Cambridge Contemporary Philosophy in Focus series, and he is
co-author with Ernie Lepore (Rutgers) of Donald Davidson:
Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality (2005)
and Donald Davidson’s Truth-theoretic
Semantics (2007).