Problems of Rationality

- Authors
- Davidson, Donald
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Tags
- philosophy
- ISBN
- 9780198237549
- Date
- 2004-03-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.30 MB
- Lang
- en
*Problems of Rationality* is the eagerly awaited fourth volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. From the 1960s until his death in August 2003 Davidson was perhaps the most influential figure in English-language philosophy, and his work has had a profound effect upon the discipline. His unified theory of the interpretation of thought, meaning, and action holds that rationality is a necessary condition for both mind and interpretation. Davidson here develops this theory to illuminate value judgements and how we understand them; to investigate what the conditions are for attributing mental states to an object or creature; and to grapple with the problems presented by thoughts and actions which seem to be irrational. Anyone working on knowledge, mind, and language will find these essays essential reading.