Davidson, Donald. Truth and Predication.(Book review)

The Review of Metaphysics | September 1, 2006| | Copyright

DAVIDSON, Donald. Truth and Predication. Cambridge: Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. 180 pp. Cloth, $29.95--This work was published posthumously, and its title hints at the two sorts of sources it is based on. The first is Davidson's series of John Dewey lectures on truth, given at Columbia University in 1989. It is reprinted here in the same form it took when it originally appeared in 1990 in the Journal of Philosophy. The second source are the lectures on predication Davidson gave over a period of years. The material has been carefully prepared by his wife, ...

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