Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality

1. Introduction; PART I: HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO TRUTH-THEORETIC SEMANTICS; 2. Learnable Languages and the Compositionality Requirement; 3. The Form of a Meaning Theory and Difficulties for Traditional Approaches; 4. The Introduction of a Truth Theory as the Vehicle of a Meaning Theory; 5. Truth and Context Sensitivity; 6. Davidson's Extensionalist Proposal; 7. The Extensionality and Determination Problems; 8. Foster's Objection; 9. Relation to an Explicit Meaning Theory and to Semantic Competence; 10. The Problem of Semantic Defects in Natural Languages; PART II: RADICAL INTERPRETATION; 11. Clarifying the Project; 12. The Procedure of the Radical Interpreter; 13. The Justification of the Principle of Charity; 14. The Theory of Agency and Additional Constraints; 15. Indeterminacy; 16. Development of a Unified Theory of Meaning and Action; 17. The Reality of Language; PART III: METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY; 18. The Impossibility of Alternative Conceptual Schemes; 19. Externalism and the Impossibility of Massive Error; 20. First Person Authority; 21. Inscrutability of Reference; 22. Language, Thought, and World; Bibliography

an outstanding book on Davidson's achievement...a model of excellent scholarship both for students and scholars. Dr Alessandro Capone, University of Messina