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PITHY QUOTE FROM Davidson: Philosophical Essays (2nd Release)

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I conclude that there is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed.

The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (2nd Release). Truth, Language, and History, "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs"

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The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (2nd Release). Electronic Edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-250-3

Language: English

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List of Contents

The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (2nd Release) contains the five volumes of Donald Davidson's essays from Oxford University Press. InteLex previously released the first editions of the first two volumes of this acclaimed series. We now offer all five volumes (with full credit for previous purchase) in their definitive form. The two previous volumes have been revised and augmented.


Davidson, Donald. Essays on Actions and Events. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.

_____. Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.

_____. Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.

_____. Problems of Rationality. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

_____. Truth, Language, and History. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.



There is no more creative or systematic philosopher at work in America today than Donald Davidson, but most people would find his essays formidable. This is not because they are long, convoluted, or technical, or because they are obscure or self-indulgent. On the contrary, it is because the prose is so plain, sparse, pruned, a prose long in preparation and short in delivery.

—Ian Hacking
Review of Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation
The New York Review of Books