Uses of Mistakes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Truth, Meaning and Logical Form. Reflections on Davidson's Philosophy of Language 1
5. Reply to Wolfgang Künne 21
6. Davidson on Truth 25
7. Reply to Richard Schantz 36
8. Quine and Davidson on Reference and Evidence 41
9. Reply to Felix Mühlhözer 54
10. Is Radical Interpretation Possible? 57
11. Reply to Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore 77
12. The Philosophical Significance of a Shared Language 85
13. Reply to Andreas Kemmerling 117
14. Norms and Meaning 121
15. Reply to Akeel Bilgrami 145
16. Uses of Mistakes 149
17. Reply to Joachim Schulte 158
18. “What Metaphors Mean” and how Metaphors Refer 161
19. Reply to Oliver Scholz 172
20. How Relational Are Davidson’s Beliefs? 175
21. Reply to Johannes Brandl 194
22. First-Person Authority and Radical Interpretation 197
23. Reply to Eva Picardi 210
24. The Explanation of First Person Authority 213
25. Reply to Bernhard Thöle 248
26. The Architecture and Evidential Base of the Unified Theory 251
27. Reply to Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer 263
28. Reasons, Actions, and their Relationship 265
29. Reply to Ralf Stoecker 287
30. The Explanatory Force of Action Explanations 291
31. Reply to Peter Lanz 302
32. Mental Concepts: Causal because Anomalous 305
33. Reply to Peter Bieri 311
34. Evaluative Judgements 315
35. Reply to Thomas Spitzley 330
36. Problems of Induction: Davidson and Goodman on Emeralds, Emeroses and Emerires 333
37. Reply to Rosemarie Rheinwald 347
38. Selected bibliography 349
39. Index 389
40. Backmatter 394