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Jul 23, 2009 · Put this broadly, Lewis’s position is indebted to Donald Davidson’s work, and Lewis frequently acknowledges the debt. But Lewis differs from Davidson in several respects. I’ll briefly mention four of them here, then look at two substantial changes in the next two sections.
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Jul 1, 2013 · Summary. Donald Davidson famously argued, contra radical skepticism, that belief is in its nature veridical. In assessing whether Davidson was successful in this regard, it is first necessary to establish the exact philosophical basis Davidson was adducing for this claim, which is far from clear.
- Duncan Pritchard
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Davidson argued that an appropriate theory could be framed by modifying the kind of theory of truth which Tarski had devised for formal languages. This suggestion, and the conception of meaning which it embodies, has been significant both for philosophy and linguistics.
The recent deaths of Quine, Lewis and Davidson have deprived philosophy of three great stylists. Donald Davidson remained philosophically active until the end of his life. Neither did he lose his enthusiasm for the outdoors – well into his eighties he was seen snorkelling off the coast of Mexico.
Donald Herbert Davidson (March 6, 1917 – August 30, 2003) was an American philosopher. He served as Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1981 to 2003 after having also held teaching appointments at Stanford University, Rockefeller University, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago.
David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) was an American philosopher. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton University from 1970 until his death. He is closely associated with Australia, whose philosophical community he visited almost annually for more than 30 years.
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This chapter presents the basics of Donald Davidson’s philosophy of language. It explains the essential principles of truth-conditional semantics, and briefly looks into Alfred Tarski’s project of defining truth for formal languages through T-theories.
