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	Donald Davidson (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Donald Davidson was one of the most important philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century.
		Davidson treats the connection between reason and action (where the reason is indeed the reason for the action) as a connection that obtains between two events (the agent's believing and desiring on the one hand and her acting on the other) that can be variously described.
		Davidson emphasises the holistic character of the mental (both in terms of the interdependence that obtains between various forms of knowledge as well as the interconnected character of attitudes and of attitudes and behaviour).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/davidson (7926 words)

	Donald Davidson (philosopher) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donald Davidson (March 6, 1917 – August 30, 2003) was an American philosopher and the Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
		Davidson argued that the fact that the expression of a reason was not so precise, did not mean that the having of a reason could not itself be a state capable of causally influencing behaviour.
		Davidson argues that because the language is compositional, it is also holistic: sentences are based on the meanings of words, but the meaning of a word depends on the totality of sentences in which it appears.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Davidson_(philosopher) (1962 words)

	Donald Davidson [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Donald Herbert Davidson was a 20th century American philosopher whose most profound influences on contemporary philosophy were in the philosophy of mind and action.
		Davidson’s argument that mental phenomena can’t be captured by strict, deterministic scientific laws as they are normally understood, depends upon his treatment of propositional attitudes, attitudes of hoping that p, or fearing that p, or believing that p, where p is some proposition.
		Davidson's latter claim is considered to be a rejection of the most basic goal of the science of psychology.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/d/davidson.htm (4461 words)

	Donald Davidson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Davidson treats the connection between reason and action (where the reason is indeed the reason for the action) as a connection that obtains between two events (the agent's believing and desiring on the one hand and her acting on the other) that can be variously described.
		Davidson claims that the way to achieve this is through the application of the so-called ‘principle of charity’ (Davidson has also referred to it as the principle of ‘rational accommodation’) a version of which is also to be found in Quine.
		Davidson emphasises the holistic character of the mental (both in terms of the interdependence that obtains between various forms of knowledge as well as the interconnected character of attitudes and of attitudes and behaviour).
	www.science.uva.nl /~seop/entries/davidson (7917 words)

	Donald Davidson (philosopher) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Davidson takes three questions to be central to radical interpretation.
		Davidson points out that beliefs and meanings are inseparable.
		However, Davidson does allow that the interpreter can reasonably ascertaine when a speaker holds a sentence true, without knowing anything about a particular belief or meaning.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Davidson_%28philosopher%29 (1962 words)

	Donald Davidson (poet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donald Grady Davidson (August 8, 1893 - April 25, 1968) was a U.S. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author.
		Davidson received both his bachelor's (1917) and master's (1922) degrees at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
		Davidson received honorary doctorates from Cumberland University, Washington and Lee University, and Middlebury College.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Davidson_(poet) (300 words)

	Donald Davidson - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Donald Davidson (1917 - 2003) ist einer der einflussreichsten Philosophen der Gegenwart, der vor allem für seine Beiträge zur Handlungstheorie und zur Sprachphilosophie bekannt ist.
		Davidsons Sprachphilosophie beruht in vielen Punkten auf Willard Quines antimentalistischer und behaviouristischer Sprachphilosophie.
		Der Vordenker der zeitgenössischen Analytischen Philosophie, Donald Davidson, und der Mitbegründer des philosophischen Neopragmatismus, Richard Rorty, führten seit den siebziger Jahren eine vielbeachtete Debatte über die Bedeutung, die dem Wahrheitsbegriff in der Philosophie zukommt.
	www.perlentaucher.de /autoren/14485.html (243 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Donald Davidson
		Donald Davidson, who has died aged 86, was one of the greatest philosophers of the late 20th century.
		Davidson's revolutionary work in the philosophy of language probes the issue of how anyone is to understand another (unknown) language.
		Davidson was urging us to try and construct in a deliberate, laborious way what we do instinctively and immediately, so as to analyse how we do it.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1035161,00.html (1334 words)

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		Donald Davidson is a poet whose creative, artistic, descriptive style gives his poems a unique characteristic that catches the reader's attention and interest.
		Davidson was born in 1893, in Campbellsville, Tennessee.
		Davidson was also part of other pleasant activities such as formal and informal musical sessions at the home of friends and faculty members and visits to Nashville's Vendome Theatre.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/davidson_donald_tn.htm (2622 words)

	09.04.2003 - Renowned UC Berkeley professor and philosopher Donald Davidson dies at 86
		Davidson was recognized as one of the most influential philosophers of his generation.
		Davidson came to UC Berkeley in 1981, after holding positions at Queen's College in New York, Princeton University, Rockefeller University, the University of Chicago and Stanford University.
		Nagel described Davidson as having a "huge appetite for life." He and his wife traveled extensively with Davidson and his wife, Marcia Cavell, who is also a philosopher and occasionally teaches philosophy courses at UC Berkeley.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2003/09/04_davidson.shtml (1002 words)

	Anomalous Monism: Entry
		Donald Davidson’s anomalous monism is a theory of mind that can be regarded as emerging from two pressures on its predecessor, the type-identity theory.
		Davidson has said that he accepts something like weak supervenience (Davidson, 1985), in which case it appears that, if Kim's intuitions about the modal force necessary for dependence are correct, Davidson’s characterisation of supervenience cannot be regarded as a kind of dependence.
		A further problem with Davidson's conception of supervenience is that it is consistent with the possibility that two people who are physically indiscernible with the exception of one small detail, such as that one has one eyelash that is slightly longer than his counterpart’s, could differ radically in their mental states.
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	Donald Davidson Poet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Donald Grady Davidson (August 8, 1893 - April 25, 1968) was an American poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author.
		Davidson is best known for his association with the Southern Agrarians.
		Donald Grady Davidson was born in Campbellsville, Tennessee.
	www.wikiverse.org /donald-davidson-poet (305 words)

	Special Collections: Donald Davidson, Chronology
		Davidson joins the faculty of the Breadloaf School of English of Middlebury College for the summers of 1931 - 1967, Ripton, Vermont.
		Davidson is the editor and author of introduction, notes, and biographical sketches.
		The Literary Correspondence of Donald Davidson and Allen Tate.
	www.library.vanderbilt.edu /speccol/davidsond_bio.shtml (630 words)

	AllRefer.com - Donald Herbert Davidson (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		A student of W. Quine, Davidson emerged as one of the major figures in post–World War II analytic philosophy.
		Davidson subsequently developed a philosophy of language, a central tenet of which is that knowing the meaning of a sentence is a matter of knowing the conditions under which it is true.
		Davidson's views on language and mind led him to reject both scepticism and conceptual relativism, i.e., the idea that human beings can possess radically divergent conceptual schemes such that some cannot, in principle, be translated into others.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DavidsnD.html (268 words)

	Donald Davidson The Philosophy-Linguistics Connection 1967-76
		Donald Davidson was at Princeton University from 1967 to 1970 and at Rockefeller University in New York from 1970-76, occasionally teaching a seminar at Princeton.
		Davidson was going to be at the Stanford Center for 1969-70, so he and I set up a small conference there in 1969 that brought together a few linguists and philosophers of language.
		Davidson had wanted to explain intentional action in terms of beliefs, desires, and causality, and then use the notion of intentional action to explain what intentions are.
	www.princeton.edu /~harman/Papers/Davidson.html (1219 words)

	Donald Davidson's Commentary on Tate's "Ode" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Donald Davidson’s 1927 Critique of the Tate's "Ode"
		[Davidson had known Tate as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt; they had been members of the so-called "Fugitive" group that, with John Crowe Ransom, tentatively introduced the principles of modernist poetry to some of the most entrenched environs of the 1920s south.
		Langdon Hammer has characterized it as a "rude fantasy of racial power" that is "aligned with the nativist violence and immigration quotas of the mid-1920s," "a polemical attack on the ironized, deracinated, elite dialect of modernism." Tate objected to the poem because it failed, in his words, "as poetry," because it was too overtly polemical.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/tate/davidson.htm (393 words)

	The Attack on Leviathan: Donald Davidson and the South's Conservatism
		I propose to discuss with you Donald Davidson as the latter-day champion of the South's political and social inheritance.
		W ashington did not call Donald Davidson, who was a guardian of the permanent things, which perish on the pavements of the Long Street.
		In person, Davidson was a lean and austere gentleman who smiled rarely; his conversation, nevertheless, was lively, and he was a kindly h ost.
	www.heritage.org /Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL206.cfm?renderforprint=1 (3822 words)

	Dan Hutto: Davidson's Identity Crisis
		Honderich says "Donald Davidson needs to choose whether a mental event as mental or that same event as physical which is causal with respect to an ensuing action, and...either choice is fatal to anomalous monism" (Honderich, 1983, p.
		One possible reply, which Davidson has recently considered, is to advocate the view that the causal efficacy of the intentional is underwritten by the possibility of non-strict laws in that domain.
		Davidson openly acknowledged this and has written, "one would like to be given a reason for supposing there is a close connection between laws and causal explanations.
	www.herts.ac.uk /humanities/philosophy/Dialectica.html (5664 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Out of the Matrix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Davidson would reply that Cartesian skeptics are misusing the expression "really real." It makes sense to say that the people I encounter in my dreams, or the things I see after taking hallucinogens, are not really real.
		If you see the film after having read Davidson, you will be struck by the fact that the hero has mostly the same beliefs after he is ripped out of his artificial environment as he did before.
		Wittgenstein and Davidson thought it was time for philosophers to stop fooling around with the inverted spectrum and the incommensurable Galactics.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/10/05/out_of_the_matrix (1570 words)

	Donald Davidson -- UC professor of philosophy
		Retired UC Berkeley professor Donald Herbert Davidson, one of the foremost and most influential philosophers of his generation, died Saturday in Berkeley at the age of 86.
		Professor Davidson himself was heavily influenced by the work of Harvard philosopher W.V.O. Quine, and in recent years he taught graduate seminars on Quine's philosophical theories.
		Davidson met Cavell while the two were at Stanford, and they eventually married in 1984.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/05/BA303235.DTL (563 words)

	Donald Davidson (philosopher) Details, Meaning Donald Davidson (philosopher) Article and Explanation Guide
		In Mental Events Davidson advanced a form of the "identity thesis" in the philsophy of mind: that mental events just are brain events, and that mental states are brain states.
		Davidson argued that such a reduction would not be necessary to an identity thesis: it is possible that each individual mental state or event just is the corresponding brain state or event, without there being laws relating kinds of mental states to kinds of brain states--such as those in the above example.
		Davidson's essays are collected in four volumes: Essays on Actions and Events, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, and Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective, and Problems of Rationality.
	www.e-paranoids.com /d/do/donald_davidson__philosopher_.html (1508 words)

	Philosophy Now
		Donald Herbert Davidson ranks as one of the greatest American philosophers.
		Thus we arrive at the position that Davidson calls Anomalous Monism: mental events are identical with physical events, despite the absence of strict laws that connect them.
		Davidson also wrote extensively on topics in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of knowledge.
	www.philosophynow.org /issue43/43sherratt.htm (774 words)

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		Donald Davidson's monism or identity theory of mind and brain has rightly got a great deal of attention.
		Davidson has elaborated his conception of an event as an irreducible entity, not something to be removed from our ontology.
		Davidson’s account of an action as being caused by a reason, roughly a belief and an attitude, suggests that he takes the mental events in question to be causal as mental.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /~uctytho/AnMon.htm (4308 words)

	Donald Davidson
		Donald Davidson was born on 2nd April, 19l0, in the Deeside town of Ballater.
		Donald told friends that he started to play the mouth-organ when he was only four years old being inspired by the music that he heard on his parent's old wind-up gramophone (with a gold and scarlet horn).
		Donald's nephew Gordon continues to play the pipes in Banchory, whilst Gordon's daughter, Judy Davidson, is making a name for herself as a fiddle-player in the Shetland Isles, where she now lives.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /articles/davidson.htm (2286 words)

	Language Philosophy, Writing, and Reading: A Conversation with Donald Davidson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Donald Davidson is an analytic philosopher in the tradition of Wittgenstein and Quine, and his formulations of action, truth, and communicative interaction have generated considerable debate in philosophical circles.
		Davidson's important and largely unheralded contribution to rhetorical theory and, consequently, to composition studies resides in his elaboration of a vigorously anti-foundationalist conception of language and communicative interaction.
		In this interview, Davidson maintains that he has "departed from foundationalism completely," and in his version of anti-foundationalism, Davidson breaks with the Cartesian philosophical tradition that understands language to be a medium of either representation or expression.
	jac.gsu.edu /jac/13.1/Articles/1.htm (9050 words)

	Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition ...
		Donald Davidson presents a new edition of the 1984 volume which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language.
		Donald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
		Donald Davidson is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
	www.halloween.com /halloween-books/free.php?in=us&asin=0199246297 (578 words)

	Philosophers' Imprint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Donald Davidson's theory of mind is widely regarded as a normative theory.
		Once a distinction has been made between the categorisation scheme of a norm and the norm's force-maker, it becomes clear that a Davidsonian theory of mind is not a normative theory after all.
		Making clear the distinction, applying it to Davidson's theory of mind, and showing its significance are the main purposes of this paper.
	www.philosophersimprint.org /003001 (99 words)

	Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance
		Donald Davidson (1893!1968) may well be the most unjustifiably neglected figure in twentieth-century southern literature.
		Davidson was more directly involved in political and social activities than most writers of his generation, and Winchell provides the context, both literary and historical, in which Davidson's opinions and works developed.
		Donald Davidson may not have achieved the recognition he deserved, but this remarkable biography finally makes it possible for a considerable literary audience to discover his true achievement.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/spring2000/winchell.htm (337 words)

	Donald Davidson Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Conversations With Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Nozick, Danto, Rorty, Cavell, MacIntyre, and Kuhn
		For Davidson, on the contrary, the notion of consensus remains secondary, and precisely herein lies his fundamental originality in comparison with the pragmatist perspective.
		An aside: Davidson is one of the most important philosophers on this side of the second World War.
	www.sylloge.com /davidson_interview.html (1369 words)

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