Donald Davidson

Donald Davidson was an American philosopher. He taught philosophy during several years at the American universities.

Education

Davidson majored in English and comparative literature on William Shakespeare at Harvard University and switched it to philosophy.

career

He taught Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and also held teaching appointments several other universities such as Stanford University, Rockefeller University, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago.

Works

Here is the list of some of his works in philosophy:

• "Truth and Meaning," Synthese, 17, 1967. (Reprinted in Davidson, 2001b.)
• "Mental Events," in Experience and Theory, Foster and Swanson (eds.). London: Duckworth. 1970. (Reprinted in Davidson, 2001a).
• "Agency," in Agent, Action, and Reason, Binkley, Bronaugh, and Marras (eds.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1971. (Reprinted in Davidson, 2001a.)
• Essays on Actions and Events, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001a.
• Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001b.
• Problems of Rationality, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
• Truth, Language, and History: Philosophical Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005.
• Truth and Predication. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Notes

References

• Lepore, Ernest and Kirk Ludwig. Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005.
• Ludwig, Kirk (ed.). Donald Davidson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003.
• Mou, Bo (ed.). Davidson's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement. Leiden & Boston: Brill. 2006.
• Kotatko, Petr, Peter Pagin and Gabriel Segal (eds.). Interpreting Davidson. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 2001.
• Evnine, Simon. Donald Davidson. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1991.

Other websites

• "Donald Davidson" – by Jeff Malpas, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005.
• "Donald Davidson (1917–2003)" Archived 2009-07-24 at the Wayback Machine by Vladimir Kalugin, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006.
• Donald Davidson on the academic senate website