Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural language[...]

Among the most important philosophers of mind and language in recent decades, Donald Davidson articulated "anomalous monism" as well as ideas for unifying the general theory of linguistic meaning with semantics for natural language. This book collects original essays on Davidson by his leading conte[...]