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Donald Davidson’s Triangulation Argument A Philosophical Inquiry By Robert H. Myers, Claudine Verheggen

Donald Davidson’s Triangulation Argument
A Philosophical Inquiry

By Robert H. Myers and Claudine Verheggen

According to many commentators, Davidson’s earlier work on philosophy of action and truth-theoretic semantics is the basis for his reputation, and his later forays into broader metaphysical and epistemological issues, and eventually into what became known as the triangulation argument, are much less successful. This book by two of his former students aims to change that perception. In Part One, Verheggen begins by providing an explanation and defense of the triangulation argument, then explores its implications for questions concerning semantic normativity and reductionism, the social character of language and thought, and skepticism about the external world. In Part Two, Myers considers what the argument can tell us about reasons for action, and whether it can overcome skeptical worries based on claims about the nature of motivation, the sources of normativity and the demands of morality. The book reveals Davidson’s later writings to be full of innovative and important ideas that deserve much more attention than they are currently receiving.

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Gerard Naddaf with Louis-André Dorion
2024

To most, myths are merely fantastic stories. But for Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars and prominent philosophers ...

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds book cover

Kristin Andrews, Jacob Beck
2018

Kristin Andrews and Jacob Beck, Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds  (Routledge, 2017)

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Michael A. Gilbert
2017

Michael A. Gilbert. "Argumentation Theory." In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods, edited by Mike Allen. Sage [Expected 2017].

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Claudine Verheggen
2017

Claudine Verheggen, Wittgenstein and Davidson on Language, Thought, and Action (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

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Gerard Naddaf
2016

Gerard Naddaf, “The young ‘historical’ Socrates in the Apology and Symposium,” in Selected Papers from the Tenth Symposium Platonicum: The ...

Donald Davidson’s Triangulation Argument: A Philosophical Inquiry book cover

Robert Myers, Claudine Verheggen
2016

R. Myers and C. Verheggen, Donald Davidson’s Triangulation Argument: A Philosophical Inquiry (New York: Routledge, 2016). According to many commentators, Davidson’s earlier ...

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Gerard Naddaf
2016

Gerard Naddaf, “Poetic Myths of the Afterlife: Plato’s Last Song,” in Plato’s Poetics (edited by Rick Benitez), London: Academic Printing ...

the edinburgh critical history of greek and roman philosophy

Gerard Naddaf
2016

Gerard Naddaf, “Cosmological Models and the Peri Phuseos Tradition,” in The Edinburgh Critical History of Western Philosophy. Vol I: Greek ...

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Duff R. Waring
2016

Duff R. Waring, The Healing Virtues: Character Ethics in Psychotherapy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).

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Susan Dimock
2016

Susan Dimock, “The Malum Prohibitum -- Malum in Se Distinction and the Wrongfulness Constraint on Criminalization” in press and forthcoming ...

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Michael A. Gilbert
2016

Michael A. Gilbert, "Transgender Identities." In Philosophy of Sex and Love, edited by Gary Foster. Oxford University Press.

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Alice MacLachlan
2015

Alice MacLachlan, “‘Trust Me, I’m Sorry’: The Paradox of Public Apology.” The Monist 98:4 (Fall 2015) 441-56.

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Duff R. Waring
2015

Duff R. Waring, “Patient Responsibilities in a Psychiatric Healing Project,” in The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics, Vol. 2, eds. ...

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Jim Vernon
2015

Jim Vernon, Hegel and Badiou: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity, co-edited with Antonio Calcagno (Lexington Books, 2015).

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Claudine Verheggen
2015

Claudine Verheggen, “Towards a New Kind of Semantic Normativity”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol.23, 3, (June 2015), pp.410-24.

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Gerard Naddaf
2015

Gerard Naddaf, review of G.E.R. Lloyd, Being, Humanity, and Understanding, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 for Revue de Métaphysique et ...