Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation

Donald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Davidson is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in classical philosophy after serving in the US Navy from 1942 to 1945. Before coming to Berkeley in 1981, he was Professor at Stanford, Princeton, Rockefeller, and the University of Chicago. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

Davidson, aside from being one of the most influential philosophers of the last century, shares with many of his generation a capacity to write intelligibly.

• 1. THEORIES OF MEANING AND LEARNABLE LANGUAGES (1965) ; 6. QUOTATION (1979) ; 9. RADICAL INTERPRETATION (1973) ; 13. ON THE VERY IDEA OF A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME (1974) ; 17. WHAT METAPHORS MEAN (1978)