Problems of Rationality is the eagerly awaited fourth volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. From the 1960s until his death in August 2003 Davidson was perhaps the most influential figure in English-language philosophy, and his work has had a profound effect upon the discipline. His unified theory of the interpretation of thought, meaning, and action holds that rationality is a necessary condition for both mind and interpretation. Davidson here develops this theory to illuminate value judgements and how we understand them; to investigate what the conditions are for attributing mental states to an object or creature; and to grapple with the problems presented by thoughts and actions which seem to be irrational. Anyone working on knowledge, mind, and language will find these essays essential reading.
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Donald Davidson was formerly at University of California, Berkeley.
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The philosophical project of Donald Davidson was immense ranging from philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, logic, to rationality. This collections of papers contains his works are rationality but it is does not stand in isolation from his other philosophical papers as is evident in the essay "Representation and Interpretation" where Davidson ties together various aspects of his semantic theory, philosophy of mind, and rationality. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to explore Davidson's theories in any depth as well as to someone studying in the area of theories of rationality.
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Starting with Descartes, most philosophers have assumed that all knowledge is based on data immediately given to the individual mind. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evaluative sentences, inner inconsistency, expressing evaluations, evaluative attitudes, own best judgement, other propositional attitudes, radical interpreter, interpersonal comparisons, sentential connectives, others intelligible, simple preferences, total evidence, causal character, causal concepts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Starting with Descartes, most philosophers have assumed that all knowledge is based on data immediately given to the individual mind. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evaluative sentences, inner inconsistency, expressing evaluations, evaluative attitudes, own best judgement, other propositional attitudes, radical interpreter, interpersonal comparisons, sentential connectives, others intelligible, simple preferences, total evidence, causal character, causal concepts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Richard Jeffrey, Jerry Fodor, New York, Plato Principle, Donald Davidson, The Logic of Decision, University of Chicago Press, Frank Ramsey, Journal of Philosophy, Medea Principle, Philosophical Essays, David Wiggins, Madam Bovary, Philosophical Papers, Simon Blackburn, Ted Honderich, Ann Hathaway, John Mackie, The Multiple Self New!
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- Word and Object (Studies in Communication) by Willard Van Orman Quine on 7 pages
- The Logic of Decision by Richard C. Jeffrey on 6 pages
- Essays on Actions and Events (Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson) by Donald Davidson on 5 pages
- Philosophical Essays on Freud by Richard Wollheim on 4 pages
- The Multiple Self (Studies in Rationality and Social Change) by Jon Elster on 4 pages
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- The Possibility of Discussion: Relativism, Truth And Criticism of Religious Beliefs (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy) (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy) by Hugo Strandberg on 13 pages
- Soziologische Theorie der Gegenwartsgesellschaft: Mitgliedschaftstheoretische Untersuchungen (German Edition) by Gerhard Preyer on page 157, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Donald Davidson (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus) by Kirk Ludwig in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Contemporary Pragmatism (Contemporary Pragmatism 1:2) (v. 1,No. 2) by John R. Shook on page 59, and Back Matter
- Reasons without Rationalism by Kieran Setiya in Back Matter
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