Ernie Lepore is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is currently Acting Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, and a professor at Rutgers University. He is the co-author with Herman Cappelen of Insensitive Semantics (Blackwell, 2004) and Language Turned On Itself (2007) and co-author with Kirk Ludwig of Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality (2005) and Donald Davidson's Truth-theoretic Semantics (2007). He is editor of the Handbook of Philosophy of Language (with B. Smith, 2006) and general editor of the Blackwell series Philosophers and Their Critics.

Kirk Ludwig is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of Donald Davidson. He is the editor of the volume on Donald Davidson (2003) in the Cambridge Contemporary Philosophy in Focus series, and he is co-author with Ernie Lepore (Rutgers) of Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality (2005) and Donald Davidson's Truth-theoretic Semantics (2007).

A Companion to Donald Davidson presents newly commissioned essays by leading figures within contemporary philosophy. Taken together, they provide a comprehensive overview of Davidson's work across its full range, and an assessment of his many contributions to philosophy.
* Highlights the breadth of Davidson's work across philosophy
* Demonstrates the continuing influence his work has on the philosophical community
* Includes newly commissioned contributions from leading figures in contemporary philosophy
* Provides an in-depth exposition and analysis of Davidson's work across the range of areas to which he contributed, including philosophy of action, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind

Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction: Life and Work 1
Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig
Part I Action Theory 13
1 Action Explanation 15
Ralf Stoecker
2 Practical Reason 32
Agnes Callard
3 Action Individuation 48
Hugh J. McCann
4 Freedom to Act 62
Olav Gjelsvik
5 Intention 75
Luca Ferrero
Part II Metaphysics 91
6 Event Variables and Their Values 93
Paul M. Pietroski
7 Causation 126
John Heil
8 Davidson's "Method of Truth" in Metaphysics 141
William G. Lycan
9 The Concept of Truth 156
Michael Glanzberg
Part III Philosophy of Language 173
10 Truth in the Theory of Meaning 175
Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig
11 Parataxis 191
Adam Sennet
12 Logical Form 208
Miguel Hoeltje
13 Radical Interpretation and the Principle of Charity 225
Peter Pagin
14 Davidson's Measurement-Theoretic Analogy 247
Piers Rawling
15 Reference 264
J. Robert G. Williams
16 Language and Thought 287
A.P. Martinich
17 Conceptual Schemes 300
David Henderson
18 Interpretation and Value 314
Robert H. Myers
19 Predication 328
Jeff Speaks
20 Convention and Meaning 339
Kathrin Glüer
21 Metaphor and Varieties of Meaning 361
Elisabeth Camp
22 Davidson and Literary Theory 379
Samuel C. Wheeler III
Part IV Philosophy of Mind 393
23 The Larger Philosophical Signifi cance of Holism 395
Carol Rovane
24 Anomalous Monism 410
Brian P. McLaughlin
25 Triangular Externalism 443
Sven Bernecker
26 Triangulation 456
Claudine Verheggen
27 Rationality as a Constitutive Ideal 472
Michael Rescorla
28 Irrationality 489
Sarah Stroud
29 The Rationality of the Emotions 506
Mitchell Green
Part V Epistemology 519
30 Davidson and Radical Skepticism 521
Duncan Pritchard
31 First-Person Authority 533
William Child
32 Knowledge of Other Minds in Davidson's Philosophy 550
Anita Avramides
Part VI Influences and Influence 565
33 Quine and Davidson 567
Hans-Johann Glock
34 Davidson and Contemporary Philosophy 588
Pascal Engel
Name Index 605
General Index 609