M. Losonsky
Donald Davidson's Philosophy of Language
13:20 - 14:55
1. October 4
Introduction: The Problem of Linguistic Meaning
2. October 11
Davidson, Donald. 2006. "Truth and Meaning." In The Essential Davidson, pp.155-70. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. First published 1965.
3. October 18
Davidson, Donald. 2006. "On Saying That." In The Essential Davidson, pp.171-83. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. First published 1968.
4. October 25
Davidson, Donald. 2006. "Radical Interpretation." In The Essential Davidson, pp.184-95. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. First published 1968.
5. November 1
Davidson, Donald. 2006. "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme." In The Essential Davidson,
pp.196-208. Oxford: Oxford University Press. First published 1974
6. November 8
Davidson, Donald. 2006. "What Metaphors Mean." In The Essential Davidson, pp.207-24. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. First published 1978.
7. November 15
Davidson, Donald. "Communication and Convention." In Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, pp.
265-80. Oxford: Oxford University Press. First published 1984.
8. November 22
Davidson, Donald. 2006. "A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge." In The Essential Davidson,
pp.225-41. Oxford: Oxford University Press. First published 1987.
9. November 29
Davidson, Donald. 2006. "First PersonAuthority." In The Essential Davidson, pp.242-50. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. First published 1984.
10. December 6
Davidson, Donald. 2006. "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs." In The Essential Davidson, pp.207-24.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. First published 1986.
11. December 13
Davidson, Donald. 2005. "The Social Aspect of Language." In Truth, Language and History, pp.10926.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
12. December 20
Davidson, Donald. 2001. "Externalisms." In Petr Kotatko, Peter Pagin and Gabriel Segal, eds.,
Interpreting Davidson, pp. 1-16. Stanford: CSLI Publications.