Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation

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book philosophical essay collection

Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation is a seminal collection of Donald Davidson’s essays that helped shape contemporary philosophy of language, especially theories of meaning, truth, and interpretation.

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instanceOf	book ⓘ philosophical essay collection ⓘ
author	Donald Davidson ⓘ
centralConcept	Tarskian object-language/metalanguage distinction ⓘ surface form: Tarskian truth theory holism about meaning ⓘ principle of charity ⓘ radical interpretation ⓘ truth-conditional semantics ⓘ
containsWork	A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs ⓘ Belief and the Basis of Meaning ⓘ In Defense of Convention ⓘ On Saying That ⓘ On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme ⓘ Radical Interpretation ⓘ Reality and Reference ⓘ Reply to Foster ⓘ The Method of Truth in Metaphysics ⓘ Thought and Talk ⓘ Truth and Meaning ⓘ
countryOfPublication	United Kingdom ⓘ
editor	Donald Davidson ⓘ
field	epistemology of interpretation ⓘ philosophy ⓘ semantics ⓘ
genre	academic non-fiction ⓘ
hasEdition	second edition ⓘ
hasPart	introduction by Donald Davidson ⓘ
hasSequel	Truth, Language, and History ⓘ
influenced	contemporary philosophy of language ⓘ theories of interpretation ⓘ theories of truth ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
mainSubject	interpretation ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ theories of meaning ⓘ truth ⓘ
notableFor	influencing debates on realism and anti-realism in language ⓘ systematizing Davidson’s work on truth and meaning ⓘ
philosophicalTradition	analytic philosophy ⓘ
placeOfPublication	Oxford ⓘ
publicationYear	1984 ⓘ
publisher	Oxford University Press ⓘ surface form: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press ⓘ
secondEditionPublicationYear	2001 ⓘ

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