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  1. The social aspect of language.Donald Davidson - 1994 - In Brian F. McGuinness & Gianluigi Oliveri (eds.), The Philosophy of Michael Dummett. Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 1--16.
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  • Truth and meaning.Robert C. Cummins - 2002 - In Joseph Keim-Campbell, Michael O'Rourke & David Shier (eds.), Meaning and Truth: Investigations in Philosophical Semantics. Seven Bridges Press. pp. 175-197.
    D O N A L D D AV I D S O N’S “ Meaning and Truth,” re vo l u t i o n i zed our conception of how truth and meaning are related (Davidson    ). In that famous art i c l e , Davidson put forw a rd the bold conjecture that meanings are satisfaction conditions, and that a Tarskian theory of truth for a language is a theory of meaning for that language. (...)
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  • A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs.Donald Davidson - 1986 - In Ernest LePore (ed.), Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson. Cambridge: Blackwell. pp. 433--446.
    This essay argues that in linguistic communication, nothing corresponds to a linguistic competence as summarized by the three principles of first meaning in language: that first meaning is systematic, first meanings are shared, and first meanings are governed by learned conventions or regularities. There is no such a thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language users (...)
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  • (2 other versions)A coherence theory of truth and knowledge.Donald Davidson - 1986 - In Ernest LePore (ed.), Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson. Cambridge: Blackwell. pp. 307-319.
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  • (1 other version)Word and Object.Willard Van Orman Quine - 1960 - Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.
    In the course of the discussion, Professor Quine pinpoints the difficulties involved in translation, brings to light the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our ...
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  • The concept of truth in formalized languages.Alfred Tarski - 1956 - In Logic, semantics, metamathematics. Oxford,: Clarendon Press. pp. 152--278.
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  • Theories of meaning and learnable languages.Donald Davidson - 1965 - In Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (ed.), Proceedings of the International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. North-Holland. pp. 383-394.
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  • Reflections on meaning.Paul Horwich - 2005 - New York : Oxford University Press,: Clarendon Press ;.
    Paul Horwich's main aim in Reflections on Meaning is to explain how mere noises, marks, gestures, and mental symbols are able to capture the world--that is, how words and sentences (in whatever medium) come to mean what they do, to stand for certain things, to be true or false of reality. His answer is a groundbreaking development of Wittgenstein's idea that the meaning of a term is nothing more than its use. While the chapters here have appeared as individual essays, (...)
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  • Semantics of natural language.Donald Davidson & Gilbert Harman - 1970 - Synthese 22 (1-2):1-2.
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  • (2 other versions)Truth and meaning.Donald Davidson - 1967 - Synthese 17 (1):304-323.
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  • (1 other version)The structure and content of truth.Donald Davidson - 1990 - Journal of Philosophy 87 (6):279-328.
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  • (1 other version)Inquiries Into Truth And Interpretation.Donald Davidson - 1984 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Now in a new edition, this volume updates Davidson's exceptional Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (1984), which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. The original volume remains a central point of reference, and a focus of controversy, with its impact extending into linguistic theory, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Addressing a central question--what it is for words to mean what they do--and featuring a previously uncollected, additional essay, this work will appeal to a wide audience of philosophers, linguists, (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Radical interpretation.Donald Davidson - 1973 - Dialectica 27 (1):314-328.
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  • Word and Object.Willard Van Orman Quine - 1960 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 17 (2):278-279.
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  • (2 other versions)Radical Interpretation.Donald Davidson - 1973 - Dialectica 27 (3-4):313-328.
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  • Review: Willard Van Orman Quine, Notes on the Theory of Reference. [REVIEW]John G. Kemeny - 1954 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 19 (2):136-136.
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  • (2 other versions)Truth and meaning.Donald Davidson - 1967 - Synthese 17 (1):304-323.
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  • (4 other versions)1960 International Congress For Logic, Methodology And Philosophy Of Science.[author unknown] - 1960 - Scientia 54 (95):10.
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  • (1 other version)Semantic Innocence and Uncompromising Situations.Jon Barwise & John Perry - 1981 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 6 (1):387-404.
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  • Reply to Foster.Donald Davidson - 1976 - In Gareth Evans & John McDowell (eds.), Truth and meaning: essays in semantics. Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon Press. pp. 33--41.
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  • Davidson's extensional theory of meaning.Charles S. Chihara - 1975 - Philosophical Studies 28 (1):1 - 15.
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  • (1 other version)Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays Volume 2.Donald Davidson - 2001 - Clarendon Press.
    Donald Davidson presents a new edition of the 1984 volume which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation has been a central point of reference and a focus of controversy in the subject ever since, and its influence has extended into linguistic theory, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. The central question which these essays address is what it is for words to mean what they do. This new edition features an additional essay, previously uncollected.
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  • Davidson's Semantic Program.Stephen P. Stich - 1976 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 6 (2):201-227.
    Donald Davidson did it. He did it slowly, deliberately, in more than a half dozen widely noted essays. What he did was to elaborate a program for the study of empirical semantics. Nor did he stop there. He went on to apply his program to some of the problems that have long bedeviled semantics: action sentences, indirect discourse and propositional attitudes. My goal in this paper is to assess Davidson's achievement. The first step is to assemble the program from the (...)
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  • Truth, meaning, and understanding.Scott Soames - 1992 - Philosophical Studies 65 (1-2):17-35.
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  • (1 other version)Truth and Meaning: In Perspective.Scott Soames - 2008 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 32 (1):1-19.
    My topic is the attempt by Donald Davidson, and those inspired by him, to explain knowledge of meaning in terms of knowledge of truth conditions. For Davidsonians, these attempts take the form of rationales for treating theories of truth, constructed along Tarskian lines, as empirical theories of meaning. In earlier work1, I argued that Davidson’s two main rationales – one presented in “Truth and Meaning”2 and “Radical Interpretation,”3 and the other in his “Reply to Foster ”4 – were unsuccessful. Here, (...)
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  • (1 other version)Word and Object.Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia Smith Churchland & Dagfinn Føllesdal - 1960 - Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.
    Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is asocial art.
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  • Common sense in semantics.Jerrold J. Katz - 1982 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 23 (2):174-218.
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  • (1 other version)The Sharpness of Vague Terms.Paul Horwich - 2005 - In Reflections on meaning. New York : Oxford University Press,: Clarendon Press ;.
    According to the ancient sorites paradox, zero grains of sand is not enough to make a heap, and adding one single grain can never transform a non-heap into a heap, so there can be no heaps of sand! Similar reasoning applies to all vague terms. In view of this problem, some philosophers have suggested that we must modify classical logic. This chapter argues that there is no need for this, for we should allow that one grain of sand can make (...)
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  • The Need for Abstract Entities in Semantic Analysis.Yehoshua Bar-Hillel - 1951 - Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 80 (1):100-112.
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  • (1 other version)Philosophy of Language and Mind: 1950-1990.Tyler Burge - 1992 - Philosophical Review 101 (1):3.
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  • Church's thesis misconstrued.Jonathan Berg & Charles Chihara - 1975 - Philosophical Studies 28 (5):357 - 362.
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  • In Defense of Convention T.Donald Davidson - 1973 - In Hugues Leblanc (ed.), Truth, Syntax and Modality. Amsterdam,: North-Holland.
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  • (2 other versions)Radical Interpretation.Donald Davidson - 2003 - In John Heil (ed.), Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press.
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  • (1 other version)Semantic innocence and uncompromising situations.Jon Barwise & John Perry - 2019 - In John Perry (ed.), Studies in language and information. Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
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