Companion to Donald Davidson

Ernie Lepore is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is currently Acting Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, and a professor at Rutgers University. He is the co-author with Herman Cappelen of Insensitive Semantics (Blackwell, 2004) and Language Turned On Itself (2007) and co-author with Kirk Ludwig of Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality (2005) and Donald Davidson’s Truth-theoretic Semantics (2007). He is editor of the Handbook of Philosophy of Language (with B. Smith, 2006) and general editor of the Blackwell series Philosophers and Their Critics.Kirk Ludwig is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of Donald Davidson. He is the editor of the volume on Donald Davidson (2003) in the Cambridge Contemporary Philosophy in Focus series, and he is co-author with Ernie Lepore (Rutgers) of Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality (2005) and Donald Davidson’s Truth-theoretic Semantics (2007).

• Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction: Life and Work 1Ernie Lepore and Kirk LudwigPart I Action Theory 131 Action Explanation 15Ralf Stoecker2 Practical Reason 32Agnes Callard3 Action Individuation 48Hugh J. McCann4 Freedom to Act 62Olav Gjelsvik5 Intention 75Luca FerreroPart II Metaphysics 916 Event Variables and Their Values 93Paul M. Pietroski7 Causation 126John Heil8 Davidson’s “Method of Truth” in Metaphysics 141William G. Lycan9 The Concept of Truth 156Michael GlanzbergPart III Philosophy of Language 17310 Truth in the Theory of Meaning 175Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig11 Parataxis 191Adam Sennet12 Logical Form 208Miguel Hoeltje13 Radical Interpretation and the Principle of Charity 225Peter Pagin14 Davidson’s Measurement-Theoretic Analogy 247Piers Rawling15 Reference 264J. Robert G. Williams16 Language and Thought 287A.P. Martinich17 Conceptual Schemes 300David Henderson18 Interpretation and Value 314Robert H. Myers19 Predication 328Jeff Speaks20 Convention and Meaning 339Kathrin Glüer21 Metaphor and Varieties of Meaning 361Elisabeth Camp22 Davidson and Literary Theory 379Samuel C. Wheeler IIIPart IV Philosophy of Mind 39323 The Larger Philosophical Signifi cance of Holism 395Carol Rovane24 Anomalous Monism 410Brian P. McLaughlin25 Triangular Externalism 443Sven Bernecker26 Triangulation 456Claudine Verheggen27 Rationality as a Constitutive Ideal 472Michael Rescorla28 Irrationality 489Sarah Stroud29 The Rationality of the Emotions 506Mitchell GreenPart V Epistemology 51930 Davidson and Radical Skepticism 521Duncan Pritchard31 First-Person Authority 533William Child32 Knowledge of Other Minds in Davidson’s Philosophy 550Anita AvramidesPart VI Influences and Influence 565 33 Quine and Davidson 567Hans-Johann Glock34 Davidson and Contemporary Philosophy 588Pascal EngelName Index 605General Index 609