Professor Donald Davidson is one of the most innovative and influential
recent philosophers. Ranging over a variety of topics in the philosophy
of language, philosophy of mind and epistemology, his system of thought
is unified by his inquiries into the nature of interpretation and
understanding the speech and behavior of others.
Together with its introduction, Language, Mind and Epistemology
examines Davidson's unified stance towards philosophy by joining
American and European authors within a collection of essays, published
here for the first time. The authors discuss the central topics in
Davidson's latest philosophy: his holistic truth-theoretic stance
towards meaning and understanding, the epistemology of interpretation
and translation, the externalist viewpoint in epistemology, the
anti-Cartesian approach in accounting for first person authority, the
thesis of anomalous monism, and the holistic conception of the mental.