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This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2006. The length of the article is 833 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Davidson, Donald. Truth, Language and History.(Book review)
Author: Alex Orenstein
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 60Issue: 1Page: 147(2)

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Many articles and books dealing with Donald Davidson'sphilosophy are dedicated to the papers and ideas Davidson put forwardin the `sixties and `seventies. In the last two decades, however,Davidson has continued to work in many areas of philosophy, offeringnew contributions, many of which are highly regarded by philosophersworking in the fields concerned. For instance, Davidson hasconsiderably developed his ideas about interpretation, theory ofmeaning, irreducibility of the mental, causation, and action theory;he has proposed an innovative externalist conception of the mentalcontent and a new analysis of the concept of truth; and he has partlymodified his theses about event, and the supervenience of the mentalon the physical.
In Interpretations and Causes, some of the leading contemporaryanalytic philosophers discuss Davidson's new ideas in a lively,relevant, useful, and not always entirely sympathetic way. Davidsonhimself offers and original contribution. ... Read more

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Triumph of revision
Within this book, Mr. Young develops an essay around Donald Davidson's revision of his most famous poem, "Lee in the Mountains."Taking it from its first draft, titled "General Lee Remembers," Young shows how Davidson relied on the opinion of Allen Tate, and how heconstantly looked to the poem as an unfinished work.The work, itself, ismagnificent, but the story behind it is even better. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Mississippi State University on December 22, 1998. The length of the article is 2399 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson.(Review)
Author: John Grammer
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1998
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: 52Issue: 1Page: 143

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Donald Davidson, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2885 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Mississippi State University on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 3484 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Issues discussed concern the relationship and correspondence between US Southern poets Donald Davidson and John Gould Fletcher. Topics addressed include the poets' participation in a poetic association called the Fugitives, and their poetic response to Southern culture in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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Title: Where No Flag Flies: The Correspondence of Donald Davidson and John Gould Fletcher.
Author: Mark Royden Winchell
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1999
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: 52Issue: 2Page: 299

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Donald Davidson has made enormous contributions to the philosophy of action, epistemology, semantics and philosophy of mind and today is recognized as one of the most important analytical philosophers of the late twentieth century. Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning and Knowledge addresses several issues includingDavidson's writings on epistemology and theory of language with their implications of ontology and philosophy of mind and his advances in the philosophy of mind in relation to the views of Williard V. Quine, John McDowell and Peter F. Strawson, in essays by Roger Gibson and Anita Avarmides. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 6057 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "Unto all generations of the faithful heart": Donald Davidson, the Vanderbilt Agrarians, and Appalachian poetry.(Critical essay)
Author: Jim Clark
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 58Page: 299(15)

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This digital document is an article from Crítica, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2499 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Donald Davidson, Truth and Predication.(Reseña de libro)
Author: Sílvio Pinto
Publication: Crítica (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38Issue: 113Page: 75(6)

Article Type: Reseña de libro

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2004 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Davidson, Donald. Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective.(Book Review)
Author: David L. Hildebrand
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 57Issue: 2Page: 395(4)

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