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Gardemer, Davidson and the ground of understanding

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posted on 2023-05-28, 01:17 authored by Jeffery MalpasJeffery Malpas
In his contrihution to Gadamer's volume in the library of living Philosophers, Donald Davidson makes an explicit attempt, taking Plato's Philebus as his focus, to connect his own thinking with that of Gadamer in a way that, while it does not ignore possible points of difference, is also suggestive of important continuities in their approaches. In the same volume David Hoy argues that "the hermeneutic theory of interpretation can enter into a dialogue with the Davidsonian account" and attempts to "draw on some of Davidson's arguments to defend Gadamer's hermeneutic theory against its critics." Elsewhere Simon Evnine has suggested that Davidson belongs more in the company of two of Gadamer's own philosophical heroes- Plato and Hegel-"than in the company of the Vienna Circle and Quine, with their austere, anti-metaphysical scientism."In my own work I have advanced a reading of Davidson that brings him into proximity, not only with Gadamer, but also with Gadamer's teacher, Martin Heidegger.

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Publication title

Gadamer's Century

Series

Studies in contemporary German social thought

Pagination

195-215

ISBN

262134039

Publisher

MIT Press

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  • Published

Place of publication

London & Cambridge

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Copyright 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • Open

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