Triangulation: From an Epistemological Point of View

ISBN-13: 9783110326529 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 286 str.

Dr. Maria Cristina Amoretti;Gerhard Preyer

Opis

This volume breaks new grounds by bringing together a great variety of innovative contributions on triangulation, epistemology, and mind. The notion of "triangulation," developed by Donald Davidson (1917-2003) during the last two decades of his life, has changed our understanding of the relationship between subjective, intersubjective, and objective, and shed new light on concepts such as externalism, internalism, communication, interpretation, and language. At the same time, however, it has been strongly criticized for several aspects. The papers collected in this volume--written by established contributors--aim to provide new insights into the contemporary debate on triangulation. The upshot is not only a deeper understanding of Davidson's ideas but also a new appreciation of some central problems of epistemology and the philosophy of mind with regard to adjoining disciplines such as, for instance, cognitive sciences and the philosophy of language.

O autorze

Dr. M. Cristina Amoretti is post doctoral fellow at the University of Genoa, Italy. Her primary research interests are in the fields of Epistemology and the Philosophy of Mind and Science. She wrote Il triangolo dell interpretazione. Sull epistemologia di Donald Davidson (2008), co-wrote Piccolo trattato di epistemologia (2010), edited Natura umana, natura artificiale (2009), and co-edited Conoscenza e verità (2007) and Knowledge, Language, and Interpetation. On the Philosophy of Donald Davidson (2008).
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Preyer is professor of sociology at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. M. Germany. Among his publications are Intention and Practical Thought (2011), Donald Davidson s Philosophy. From Radical Interpretation to Radical Contextualism (20112) and Interpretation, Language and the Social. Philosophical Articles (2005). He edits ProtoSociology. An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research www.protosociology.de