Description

The work of Donald Davidson (1917-2003) transformed the study of meaning. Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, two of the world's leading authorities on Davidson's work, present the definitive study of his widely admired and influential program of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages, giving an exposition and critical examination of its foundations and applications.

Features

• Important for a wide range of work in philosophy, and for linguists working on semantics and syntax
• The authors are the world's leading experts on Davidson
• Essential tool for all those getting to grips with a key twentieth-century philosopher

Reviews

"L&L display a lot of ingenuity and technical skill in order to accommodate the Davidson truth-theoretic framework."--Pascal Engel, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Product Details

360 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-929093-2ISBN10: 0-19-929093-8

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