The work of Donald Davidson transformed the study of meaning. Lepore and Ludwig, two of the world's leading authorities on Davidson's work, present the definitive study of his widely admired and influential program of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages, giving an exposition and critical examination of its foundations and applications.

Ernest Lepore is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and Associate Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.
Kirk Ludwig is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida.

• Introduction


• 1: Truth-theoretic semantics: basic framework


• 2: Quantifiers


• 3: Implementation of the extension of the truth theory to quantifiers


• 4: Proper names, indexicals and simple demonstratives


• 5: Complex demonstratives


• 6: The semantics of quotation


• 7: Adjectives and adverbs


• 8: The simple tenses of state and event verbs


• 9: Temporal adverbials and quantifiers


• 10: Tense in sentential complements and the perfect tenses


• 11: Opaque contexts: indirect discourse and attitude sentences


• 12: Non-declarative sentences


• 13: Semantic structure and logical form


• 14: Truth and correspondence