Bøker av Donald Davidson

This questions and answers book is all about political and cultural system in Africa. The questions are asked and are answered from an African perspectives using the African environment.

This book is concerned with the application of academic philosophy to some of the issues that religion presents, showing how philosophical methods and theories have been used to interpret or understand religious belief and practice. It introduces the reader to some of the basic problems provoked by the religious ideas of Christianity and Judaism, centring upon their concept of God. it investigates some methods of dealing with some of these problems. Furthermore, it examines the various description and, or definitions of religion by different sciences and discusses the relationship between religion and metaphysics, faith and reason and examines modern empiricist approach to religious thoughts.

Compiling the celebrated papers of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers, this volume distils Donald Davidson's seminal contributions to the understanding of language, the mind, action, and knowledge. It is useful for those seeking a reference point for some of the most brilliant and influential academic writing of modern times.

Comprising Donald Davidson's philosophical writings, this work explores the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between language and the world; speaker intention and linguistic meaning; language and mind; mind and body; mind and world; and mind and other minds.

Donald Davidson's unified theory of the interpretation of thought, meaning, and action holds that rationality is a necessary condition for both mind and interpretation. Here, he develops this theory to illuminate value judgements and how we understand them, and to investigate what the conditions are for attributing mental states to an object.

This investigation of the nature of human action argues for an ontology which includes events along with persons and other objects. Among the topics discussed are: freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; and decision theory.

A third volume of philosophical writings by Donald Davidson, whose influence on philosophy since the 1960s has been deep and broad. His ideas have continued to flow since the previous volumes and he presents a selection of his best work on knowledge, mind, and language from the 1980s and 90s.

This book marks the first publication of celebrated philosopher Donald Davidson's 1970 Locke Lectures. In detailing his work on the theory of meaning, the role of a truth theory, the ontological commitments of a truth theory, and the notion of logical form, these lectures offer a rare insight into Davidson's thought at a key moment in his career.

A decade and more has passed since the first publication of Still Rebels, Still Yankees. During that time the book has become recognised as a classic affirmation of the necessity of tradition in conserving cultural order.

A quarter of a century before Lyndon B. Johnson popularized the slogan "The Great Society," Donald Davidson wrote his critique of Leviathan, the omnipotent nation-state, in terms that only recently have come to be appreciated

A quarter of a century before Lyndon B. Johnson popularized the slogan "The Great Society," Donald Davidson wrote his critique of Leviathan, the omnipotent nation-state, in terms that only recently have come to be appreciated

Uproariously funny and filled with choice narration, The Big Ballad Jamboree is Donald Davidson's only novel. He set his story - the romance of hillbilly and country singer Danny MacGregor with folk singer and ballad scholar Cissy Timberlake - in the fictional western North Carolina town of Carolina City during the summer of 1949.

The Philebus is hard to reconcile with standard interpretations of Platös philosophy and in this pioneering work Donald Davidson, seeks to take the Philebus at face value and to reassess Platös late philosophy in the light of the results. The author maintains that the approach to ethics in the Philebus represents a considerable return to the methodology of the earlier dialogues. He emphasizes Platös reversion to the Socratic elenchus and connects it with the startling reappearance of Socrates as the leading voice in the Philebus.

Anchored in classical philosophy, this book nonetheless makes telling use of the work of a great number of modern philosophers from Tarski and Dewey to Quine and Rorty. Representing the very best of Western thought, it reopens the most difficult and pressing of ancient philosophical problems, and reveals them to be very much of our day.