Books in the The Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson (5 Volumes) series

This investigation of the nature of human action argues for an ontology which includes events along with persons and other objects. Among the topics discussed are: freedom to act; weakness of the will; the logical form of talk about actions, intentions, and causality; and decision theory.

A third volume of philosophical writings by Donald Davidson, whose influence on philosophy since the 1960s has been deep and broad. His ideas have continued to flow since the previous volumes and he presents a selection of his best work on knowledge, mind, and language from the 1980s and 90s.

Argues that a philosophically instructive theory of meaning should acknowledge the holistic nature of linguistic understanding. This work covers topics such as the relation between theories of truth and theories of meaning, translation, quotation, belief, radical interpretation, reference, metaphor, and communication.