Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

- Donald Davidson

Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he coul…

- Donald Davidson

Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.

- Donald Davidson

The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make…

- Donald Davidson

There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no suc…

- Donald Davidson

Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

- Donald Davidson

If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by ou…

- Donald Davidson

Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is…

- Donald Davidson

There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to k…

- Donald Davidson