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This review is from: Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson (Paperback)
Well, it looks like I just bought the last copy of this book available anywhere :-) So why bother reviewing it?
Its true that this book is mostly of historical interest now. It is basically the proceedings of a conference held in 1985 on Donald Davidson's theories of, (surprise, surprise) actions and events. The debates are long over; the arguments are stale, for the most part... ...but for the true connoseur, there's some gems to be found here. One of the last rounds of conversation between Quine and Davidson on the ontology of events is recorded here. Terrence Parsons has a nice paper which is basically a precis of this book "Events in the Semantics of English". If you are wondering what it takes to transform a philosophy department into one of the top 5 philosophy departments in the world, understanding this book and the social phenomena behind it is a good place to start. LePore and McLaughlin organized the conference, which attracted the coolest people in philosophy to have one of the coolest conversations--we're still having that conversation, 25 years on. |
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Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson by Ernest LePore (Hardcover - March 20, 1986)
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