MEANING AND TRUTH
16 February 2016
LOG
Davidson, D
*Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1984). Read the essays in the section
"Truth and Meaning" and the section "Radical
Interpretation".
Blackburn, S
Spreading the Word (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984),
Ch 2 - 4.
Dummett, M A E
"What is a Theory of Meaning?" in Mind and Language
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975), ed. S Guttenplan.
Evnine, S
*Donald Davidson (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991),
Ch 5 - 7.
Hale, B. & Wright, C.
*A Companion to the Philosophy of Language
(Blackwell, 1997), articles by Avramidos, Heal,
Skorupski.
Horwich, P.
Meaning (OUP, 1998)
LePore, E. (ed.)
Truth and Interpretation (Blackwell, 1986) (papers in
Part II and Part IV)
Harrison, B.
*An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language
(London: MacMillan, 1994)
Luntley, M.
Contemporary Philosophy of Thought (Blackwell
1999), Ch.4
Taylor, K.
*Truth and Meaning (Blackwell, 1998), Ch. 3
How, according to Davidson, would one establish that a particular theory was a theory
of meaning for a given language?
To what extent can one explicate the meaning of a sentence in terms of a notion of
truth?
Does charity make translation indeterminate in an objectionable way?