{"product_id":"donald-davidson-9780631164586","title":"Donald Davidson","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is an introduction to and interpretation of the philosophy of language devised by Donald Davidson over the past 25 years. The guiding intuition is that Davidson''s work is best understood as an ongoing attempt to purge semantics of theoretical reifications. Seen in this light the recent attack on the notion of language itself emerges as a natural development of his Quinian scepticism towards meanings and his rejections of reference-based semantic theories.  \u003cp\u003eLinguistic understanding is, for Davidson, essentially dynamic, arising only through a continuous process of theory construction and reconstruction. The result is a conception of semantics in which the notion of interpretation and not the notion of knowing a language is fundamental.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the course of his book Bjorn Ramberg provides a critical discussion of reference-based semantic theories, challenging the standard accounts of the principle of charity and elucidating the notion of radical interpretation. The final\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 What is a Theory of Truth? 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Reference 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Correspondence, Satisfaction and Explanatory Power 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Convention T 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Radical Interpretation (I): The Principle of Charity 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Radical Interpretation (II): Anomalies and Indeterminacies 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 What is a Language? 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 What is Incommensurability? 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Conclusion: The Hermeneutics of Radical Interpretation 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 147\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403389215063,"sku":"9780631164586","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631164586.jpg?v=1730483318","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/donald-davidson-9780631164586","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}