Truth Language and History

Truth Language and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson''s philosophical writings. In four groups of essays Davidson continues to explore the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between language and the world; speaker intention and linguistic meaning; language and mind; mind and body; mind and world; mind and other minds. He asks: what is the role of the concept of truth in these explorations? And can a scientific world view make room for human thought without reducing it to something material and mechanistic? Including a new introduction by his widow Marcia Cavell this volume completes Donald Davidson''s colossal intellectual legacy.