Donald Davidson

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American philosopher analytic philosopher human philosopher

Donald Davidson was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, mind, and action, particularly his theories of radical interpretation and anomalous monism.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American philosopher → analytic philosopher → human → philosopher →
academicDiscipline	philosophy →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1917-03-06 →
dateOfDeath	2003-08-30 →
educatedAt	Harvard College → Harvard University →
familyName	Davidson →
fieldOfWork	epistemology → metaphysics → philosophy of action → philosophy of language → philosophy of logic → philosophy of mind → philosophy of psychology →
givenName	Donald →
influenced	Crispin Wright → Donald McGinnis → John McDowell → Robert Brandom →
influencedBy	Alfred Tarski → Ludwig Wittgenstein → W. V. O. Quine →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
mainInterest	action → meaning → mental causation →
movement	analytic philosophy →
notableIdea	anomalous monism → event semantics → principle of charity → radical interpretation → triangulation in epistemology → truth-conditional semantics →
notableWork	Actions, Reasons, and Causes → Essays on Actions and Events → Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation → Mental Events → On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme → Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective → Truth and Meaning →
placeOfBirth	Springfield, Massachusetts, United States →
placeOfDeath	Berkeley, California, United States →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Marcia Cavell → Margeurite Davidson →
workLocation	Princeton University → Rockefeller University → Stanford University → University of California, Berkeley →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ludwig Wittgenstein → Rudolf Carnap → Willard Van Orman Quine → Word and Object →	influenced
analytic philosophy →	associatedWith
linguistic turn →	associatedWithPhilosopher