[...]... death, with the remaining two, together with the short monograph, Truth and Predication, published posthumously.7 The result is that there is often a tendency toward a rather piecemeal appreciation of Davidson s writing—something that Davidson himself recognized as a problem with many readers knowing his ideas only as set out in an individual essay or group of essays, and with particular aspects of Davidson s... Press, 2005) 8 See Davidson, “Gadamer and Plato’s Philebus,” in Truth, Language, and History, pp 261–276 Although Davidson was unsure as to how he might engage with Gadamer’s work, I suspect he felt a certain sense of obligation that meant he could not refuse the request He took the task up with some seriousness, however, attempting, with difficulty, to read Truth and Method 9 See Davidson s essay (“Gadamer... undoubtedly continuous with the earlier work, also exhibits a much broader perspective, a more idiosyncratic style, and an engagement with a wider range of problems and approaches In this respect, it is notable that the contemporary philosopher with whom Davidson saw himself as having most in common in his later years was Richard Rorty.2 There is, however, a clear tendency in the reading of Davidson that has... need to situate Davidson within a wider philosophical framework, but also that it is only by looking to his antisubjectivism, to his social conception of thought and meaning, and to the holist and externalist elements with which these are combined, that the broader philosophical significance of Davidson s thought properly becomes evident These, of course, are also the very aspects of Davidson s work... Ludwig have produced since Davidson s death, including a second jointly authored monograph, Donald Davidson s Truth-Theoretic Semantics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), as well as two edited volumes, one by Ludwig (but with contributions by Lepore), Donald Davidson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), and one edited jointly by Lepore and Ludwig, The Essential Davidson (New York: Oxford... comprising a selection of Davidson s essays from the period up until the mid-1980s (a selection that seems to reflect Lepore and Ludwig’s own assessment of the essence of Davidson s thought) In many respects, Lepore’s collaboration with Ludwig, and the critical perspective on Davidson s work that it sets forth, can be seen to be a continuation of Lepore’s earlier collaboration with Jerry Fodor in Holism:... explicitly to connect his thought with that of philosophers from outside the usual analytic canon This is a phenomenon that Davidson himself acknowledged, if with a certain puzzlement, in the early 1990s, although his puzzlement was perhaps more at the association of his thinking with the idea of some form of “postphilosophical” development, than at the connection with other thinkers as such In the... Robert Morris’s Blind Time drawings, Davidson writes: This is not the first time I have found my writing in unexpected surroundings: nothing has surprised me more than to discover myself anthologized in books with titles such as Post-Analytic Philosophy or After Philosophy That after haunts me again in an about-to-be-published book with the title Literary Theory After Davidson Is there something sinister,... thereby also bringing it into an engagement with other aspects of contemporary thought—and not only the “continental.” In the case of some of the essays here, that involves showing the way in which Davidson s work can be understood as convergent with other approaches and styles of thinking; in other cases, the argument is made for significant differences between Davidson and, for instance, thinkers such... connect him with the hermeneutic tradition, particularly the new hermeneutics, Heidegger and Gadamer and their followers Gadamer, in particular, was a natural point of contact His Truth and Method takes up many of the same issues as are discussed by Davidson, and Davidson read Gadamer’s habilitation thesis on Plato’s Philebus while he was writing his own dissertation on the same topic Davidson tells .