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Donald Davidson
A Stanford University Press classic.
- GenresPhilosophy
208 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 1991
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May 6, 2015
Dear Simon
I have not read your book. This is not a review. This is the only way that GR has left me to communicate with you.
Up until this evening we were friends. I liked reading your reviews. Goodreads has now converted all my friends into authors I am following. Everything you write will now be on my feed, not just reviews (the fact I selected Top Friends, Reviews only is overrided) and all of this will be pushed to my friends' feed as well. I can't do this. It's not you, obviously, it's the principle and the fact that I had a lot of authors as friends. I don't push any output except reviews and don't want to change that.
Patrick indicates on the Feedback thread that there was the ability to be friends with authors still but the Friend button has been removed from authors' profiles. As has the message one. This is the only way I can communicate with you. So the only way to be friends is if you send a FR, I hope you will but up to you.
GR says this move has been much requested by members. I doubt it. Its just another marketing tactic but not, to my mind, a good one at all.
I have not read your book. This is not a review. This is the only way that GR has left me to communicate with you.
Up until this evening we were friends. I liked reading your reviews. Goodreads has now converted all my friends into authors I am following. Everything you write will now be on my feed, not just reviews (the fact I selected Top Friends, Reviews only is overrided) and all of this will be pushed to my friends' feed as well. I can't do this. It's not you, obviously, it's the principle and the fact that I had a lot of authors as friends. I don't push any output except reviews and don't want to change that.
Patrick indicates on the Feedback thread that there was the ability to be friends with authors still but the Friend button has been removed from authors' profiles. As has the message one. This is the only way I can communicate with you. So the only way to be friends is if you send a FR, I hope you will but up to you.
GR says this move has been much requested by members. I doubt it. Its just another marketing tactic but not, to my mind, a good one at all.
March 1, 2016
the best synopsis/analysis of davidson out there, IMO, hands down.
October 20, 2013
Donald Davidson is the official historian of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. But did you know, he is actually from England?! I find it disgusting that a non-American holds this prestigious position and hope that all my fellow patriots will join me in protesting by giving this book 5 stars.
August 12, 2016
I have no idea who Donald Davidson is, but I know who Simon Evnine is ... and boy oh boy, if there's ever an author whose behaviour will most make me not want to pretend to read a book I have absolutely no interest in, and then review it while confessing I haven't read it and know nothing about it, well by gum, it's him!
Yayyyyy Simon!
So put that in yourthis is not a pipe and smoke it.
Yayyyyy Simon!
So put that in your
i-want-money
March 26, 2015Not too long ago I read a book by Michael N. Forster in which was argued that Davidson was WRONG and Hegel is RIGHT. Of course. But I can't say I thoroughly understood that whole section. Because, well, of course, it was Davidson! The Hegel part was no problem-o. So, there's this volume put together by our resident Davidsonian which I think would be really probabably very helpful for parsing this Davidson character.
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Search on "Donald Davidson" on the notoriously stupid gr search Machine. You'll get this volume as first catch. The rare moment when gr gets it right!
At any rate, what is the world coming to when a Davidsonian and a Heideggarian walk into a bar? Perhaps that continental/analytic divide which for 100 years has structured our philosophical experience has in fact collapsed long long ago, perhaps even before it was ever instantiated. Let us no longer speak of it.
To the things themselves!
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Search on "Donald Davidson" on the notoriously stupid gr search Machine. You'll get this volume as first catch. The rare moment when gr gets it right!
At any rate, what is the world coming to when a Davidsonian and a Heideggarian walk into a bar? Perhaps that continental/analytic divide which for 100 years has structured our philosophical experience has in fact collapsed long long ago, perhaps even before it was ever instantiated. Let us no longer speak of it.
To the things themselves!
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