Title	Interpretations and Causes [electronic resource] : New Perspectives on Donald Davidson's Philosophy / edited by Mario de Caro
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1999
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9227-7
Descript	VII, 272 p. online resource

Many articles and books dealing with Donald Davidson's philosophy are dedicated to the papers and ideas Davidson put forward in the s̀ixties and s̀eventies. In the last two decades, however, Davidson has continued to work in many areas of philosophy, offering new contributions, many of which are highly regarded by philosophers working in the fields concerned. For instance, Davidson has considerably developed his ideas about interpretation, theory of meaning, irreducibility of the mental, causation, and action theory; he has proposed an innovative externalist conception of the mental content and a new analysis of the concept of truth; and he has partly modified his theses about event, and the supervenience of the mental on the physical. In Interpretations and Causes, some of the leading contemporary analytic philosophers discuss Davidson's new ideas in a lively, relevant, useful, and not always entirely sympathetic way. Davidson himself offers and original contribution

Davidson in Focus -- Interpretation: Hard in Theory, Easy in Practice -- I. Language, Metaphysics, and Mind -- Davidson and Understanding Language -- Radical Interpretation, Logic, and Conceptual Schemes -- Donald Davidson's Freedom -- Physicalism and the Anomalism of the Mental -- Anomalous Monism -- Thirty-five Years after โActions, Reasons, and Causesโ: What Has Become of Davidson's Causal Theory of Action? -- Davidson on Rationality and Irrationality -- II. Externalism -- โCred'io ch'ei credette ch'io credesse...โ. What basis for belief? -- First Person Authority and Memory -- Sensory Evidence and Shared Interests -- Owning One's Mind -- Is There a Problem about Davidson's Externalism vis a-vis His Holism? -- Internalism and Scepticism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

1. Philosophy
2. Epistemology
3. Metaphysics
4. Modern philosophy
5. Language and languages -- Philosophy
6. Philosophy of mind
7. Philosophy
8. Philosophy of Language
9. History of Philosophy
10. Philosophy of Mind
11. Modern Philosophy
12. Epistemology
13. Metaphysics