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Donald Herbert Davidson (March 6 1917 – August 30 2003) was an American philosopher who served as Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California Berkeley from 1981 to 2003 after having also held teaching appointments at Stanford University Rockefeller University Princeton University and the University of Chicago. Davidson was known for his charismatic personality and the depth and difficulty of his thought.

birth date
1917-03-06
birth place
Springfield Massachusetts, Massachusetts
death date
2003-08-30, 2003-09-30
death place
Berkeley California, California
era
20th-century philosophy
individualised GND number
118827480
influenced
Colin McGinn, Ernest Lepore, Kirk_Ludwig
influenced by
Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alfred Tarski, Willard Van Orman Quine
main interest
Epistemology, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind, Action theory (philosophy), Event (philosophy)
notableIdea
Truth-conditional semantics, Principle of charity, Radical interpretation, Anomalous monism
philosophicalSchool
Analytic philosophy
region
Western philosophy

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