Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics

by Kirk Ludwig and Ernest Lepore

Book Overview

Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig examine the foundations and applications of Davidson's influential program of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages. The program uses an axiomatic truth theory for a language, which meets certain constraints, to serve the goals of a compositional meaning theory.

Lepore and Ludwig explain and clarify the motivations for the approach, and then consider how to apply the framework to a range of important...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199561680
• ISBN13: 9780199561681
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"