The analysis of the connections between truth, meaning, thought, and action poses a major philosophical challenge-one that Donald Davidson addressed by establishing a unified theory of language and mind. This volume offers a reappraisal of Davidson's intellectual legacy. Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of enduring philosop...(展开全部)

The analysis of the connections between truth, meaning, thought, and action poses a major philosophical challenge-one that Donald Davidson addressed by establishing a unified theory of language and mind. This volume offers a reappraisal of Davidson's intellectual legacy. Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of enduring philosop...(展开全部)

Regardless of its particular topic, each of Donald Davidson's essays is part of a comprehensive progrqamme to address questions about language, mind and action, and their interconnections. Themes from this larger programme permeate and bind his work on semantics: on the notions of meaning and truth, on theories of truth, reference, logical form and inference, compositionality, ...(展开全部)

Donald Davidson has been one of the most influential figures in modern analytic philosophy and has made seminal contributions in a wide range of subjects: philosophy of language, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics and the theory of rationality. His principal work, embodied in a series of landmark essays stretching over nearly 40 years, exhibits ...(展开全部)

Donald Davidson has been one of the most influential figures in modern analytic philosophy and has made seminal contributions in a wide range of subjects: philosophy of language, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics and the theory of rationality. His principal work, embodied in a series of landmark essays stretching over nearly 40 years, exhibits ...(展开全部)

威廉•詹姆斯（William James，1842—1910），美国心理学家和哲学家，美国机能主义心理学和实用主义哲学的先驱，美国心理学会的创始人之一。1875年，建立美国第一个心理学实验室。1904年当选为美国心理学会主席，1906年当选为国家科学院院士。主要著有《心理学原理》（1890）、《对教师讲心理学和对学生讲生活理想》（1899）、《实用主义》(1907)、《多元的宇宙》（1909）。

威廉•詹姆斯（William James，1842—1910），美国心理学家和哲学家，美国机能主义心理学和实用主义哲学的先驱，美国心理学会的创始人之一。1875年，建立美国第一个心理学实验室。1904年当选为美国心理学会主席，1906年当选为国家科学院院士。主要著有《心理学原理》（1890）、《对教师讲心理学和对学生讲生活理想》（1899）、《实用主义》(1907)、《多元的宇宙》（1909）。

Bertrand Russell is concerned in this book with the foundations of knowledge. He approaches his subject through a discussion of language, the relationships of truth to experience and an investigation into how knowledge of the structure of language helps our understanding of the structure of the world.

Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language and language use. Leading thinkers in the field explore various ways this idea may be challenged as well as obstacles to dev...(展开全部)

Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language and language use. Leading thinkers in the field explore various ways this idea may be challenged as well as obstacles to dev...(展开全部)