Donald Herbert Davidson, one of the most prominent philosophers of our time, died suddenly following surgery on August 30, 2003, in Berkeley, California. His death was an immense loss to the international philosophical community and to his many friends. This commemorative special issue brings together articles on different aspects of Davidson's work by philosophers from both analytic and continental traditions. It also publishes three commemorative addresses delivered by those personally and philosophically close to him.
Contents
Introduction: Maria Baghramian and Jeff Malpas
In Memoriam
I - Marcia Cavell
II - Tyler Burge
III - Richard Rorty
Ontology in the Theory of Meaning
Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University, USA) and Kirk Ludwig
(University of Florida, USA)
The Status of Charity I: Conceptual Truth or
A Posteriori Necessity?
Kathrin Glüer (Stockholm University, Sweden)
The Status of Charity II: Charity, Probability, and Simplicity
Peter Pagin (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Davidson, Interpretation and the First-Person Constraints
on Meaning
Barry Smith (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)
Why Davidson is not a Property Epiphenomenalist
Sophie Gibb (Durham University, UK)
Interpreting People and Interpreting Texts
Bill Child (University College, Oxford)
Davidsonian Triangulation and Heideggerian Comportment
Timothy J. Nulty (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA)
