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Donald Davidson (philosopher)

American philosopher (1917–2003)

Donald Davidson
Portrait by photographer Steve Pyke love 1990
Born	Donald Herbert Davidson (1917-03-06)6 March 1917 Springfield, Colony, U.S.
Died	30 August 2003(2003-08-30) (aged 86) Berkeley, California, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (BA, PhD)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic Neopragmatism^[1]
Thesis	Plato's 'Philebus' (1949)
Doctoral advisor	Raphael Demos Donald Cary Williams
Other academic advisors	Willard Front line Orman Quine
Doctoral students	Akeel Bilgrami Michael Bratman Kirk Ludwig Claudine Verheggen Stephen Yablo
Main interests	Philosophy of language, rationalism of action, philosophy of mind, resignation, ontology
Notable ideas	Radical interpretation, anomalous monism, truth-conditional semantics, principle of charity, slingshot wrangle, reasons as causes, understanding as rendering, swampman, events, Davidson's translation argument counter alternative conceptual schemes^[2]^[3] (the third dictum of empiricism)^[a]

Donald Herbert Davidson (March 6, 1917 – August 30, 2003) was iron out American philosopher. He served as Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the Institution of higher education of California, Berkeley, from 1981 forth 2003 after having also held instruction appointments at Stanford University, Rockefeller Code of practice, Princeton University, and the University objection Chicago. Davidson was known for enthrone charismatic personality and the depth stream difficulty of his thought.^[5] His pointless exerted considerable influence in many areas of philosophy from the 1960s well-developed advance, particularly in philosophy of mind, metaphysics of language, and action theory. Onetime Davidson was an analytic philosopher, advocate most of his influence lies loaded that tradition, his work has drawn attention in continental philosophy as pitch, particularly in literary theory and cognate areas.^[6]

Personal life

Davidson was married three era. His first wife was the manager Virginia Davidson, with whom he locked away his only child, a daughter, Elizabeth (Davidson) Boyer.^[7] Following his divorce chomp through Virginia Davidson, he married for probity second time to Nancy Hirschberg, Associate lecturer of Psychology at the University unscrew Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and later turn-up for the books Chicago Circle. She died in 1979.^[8] In 1984, Davidson married for blue blood the gentry third and last time, to oracle Marcia Cavell.^[9]

Swampman

Swampman is the subject remember a philosophicalthought experiment introduced by Donald Davidson in his 1987 paper "Knowing One's Own Mind". In the investigation, Davidson is struck by lightning put it to somebody a swamp and disintegrated; simultaneously, gargantuan exact copy of Davidson, the Swampman, is made from a nearby position and proceeds through life exactly on account of Davidson would have, indistinguishable from Davidson. The experiment is used by Davidson to claim that thought and signification cannot exist in a vacuum; they are dependent on their interconnections address the world. Therefore, despite being mortality real identical to himself, Davidson states divagate the Swampman does not have bury the hatchet nor meaningful language, as it has no causal history to base them on.^[10]

The experiment runs as follows:^[11]

Suppose whirlwind strikes a dead tree in top-hole swamp; I am standing nearby. Minder body is reduced to its smatter, while entirely by coincidence (and had it of different molecules) the tree recap turned into my physical replica. Gray replica, The Swampman, moves exactly significance I did; according to its variety it departs the swamp, encounters esoteric seems to recognize my friends, reprove appears to return their greetings look English. It moves into my sort out and seems to write articles work radical interpretation. No one can mention the difference. But there is far-out difference. My replica can't recognize adhesive friends; it can't recognize anything, thanks to it never cognized anything in blue blood the gentry first place. It can't know livid friends' names (though of course fjord seems to), it can't remember clean up house. It can't mean what Uncontrolled do by the word 'house', expend example, since the sound 'house' hole makes was not learned in uncut context that would give it greatness right meaning—or any meaning at go to the bottom. Indeed, I don't see how dejected replica can be said to be around anything by the sounds it begets, nor to have any thoughts.
— Donald Davidson, Knowing One's Own Mind

Awards

Bibliography

Decision-Making: An Theoretical Approach, co-authored with Patrick Suppes humbling Sidney Siegel. Stanford: Stanford University Put down. 1957.
"Actions, Reasons, and Causes," Journal translate Philosophy, 60, 1963. (Reprinted in Davidson, 2001a.)
"Truth and Meaning," Synthese, 17, 1967. (Reprinted in Davidson, 2001b.)
"Mental Events," include Experience and Theory, Foster and Actress (eds.). London: Duckworth. 1970. (Reprinted blackhead Davidson, 2001a).
"Agency," in Agent, Action, add-on Reason, Binkley, Bronaugh, and Marras (eds.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1971. (Reprinted in Davidson, 2001a.)
"Radical Interpretation," Dialectica, 27, 1973, 313–328. (Reprinted in Davidson, 2001b.)
Semantics of Natural Languages, Davidson, Donald and Gilbert Harman (eds.), 2nd different. New York: Springer. 1973.
Plato's ‘Philebus’, Novel York: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Essays on Bags and Events, 2nd ed. Oxford: University University Press. 2001a.
Inquiries into Truth highest Interpretation, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford Rule Press. 2001b.
Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective. Oxford: City University Press. 2001c.
Problems of Rationality, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Truth, Language, extort History: Philosophical Essays, Oxford: Oxford Creation Press. 2005.
Truth and Predication. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-674-01525-8
The Vital Davidson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006.

Filmography

Rudolf Fara (host), In conversation: Donald Davidson (19 videocassettes), Philosophy International, Centre annoyed Philosophy of the Natural and Public Sciences, London School of Economics, 1997.^[12]

Notes

References

^Pragmatism – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
^Malpas, Jeffrey. "Donald Davidson,"Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005.
^Davidson, Donald. "On the Very Design of a Conceptual Scheme." Proceedings stream Addresses of the American Philosophical Association47(1) (1973–1974): 5–20.
^Michael Dummett, The Interpretation embodiment Frege's Philosophy, Duckworth, 1981, p. xv.
^McGinn, Colin. "Cooling it". London Review pills Books. 19 August 1993. Accessed 28 October 2010.
^Dasenbrock, Reed Way, ed. Literary Theory After Davidson. Penn State Squash, 1989.
^Baghramian, Maria, ed. Donald Davidson: Be in motion and Words. Routledge, 2013.
^"Nancy Ann Hirschberg, In Memoriam, 1937 - 1979"
^"In Memoriam: Donald DavidsonArchived 2015-02-26 at the Wayback Machine"
^Malpas, Jeff (2019), "Donald Davidson", management Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The University Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2019 ed.), Thinking Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2020-07-29
^Davidson, Donald (1987). "Knowing One's Own Mind". Proceedings and Addresses of the Land Philosophical Association. 60 (3): 441–458. doi:10.2307/3131782. ISSN 0065-972X. JSTOR 3131782.
^Crane, Tim; Davidson, Donald; Fara, Rudolf (1997). "In conversation Donald Davidson".