Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson

Now in a new edition, this volume updates Davidson’s exceptional Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (1984), which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. The original volume remains a central point of reference, and a focus of controversy, with its impact extending into linguistic theory, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Addressing a central question–what it is for words to mean what they do–and featuring a previously uncollected, additional essay, this work will appeal to a wide audience of philosophers, linguists, and psychologists.