소개
도널드 데이비드슨(Donald Davidson, 1917년 3월 6일 ~ 2003년 8월 30일)은 현대 미국의 철학자이다. 본래 언어철학에 많은 업적을 남긴 사람이지만, 영미 분석철학의 흐름이 언어철학에서 심리철학으로 전환된 이후, 심리철학에서 무법칙적 일원론(anamolous monism)을 주장한 것으로 유명하다.
Donald Herbert Davidson was an American philosopher. He 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 difficult writing style, as well as the systematic nature of his philosophy. His work exerted considerable influence in many areas of philosophy from the 1960s onward, particularly in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and action theory. While Davidson was an analytic philosopher, with most of his influence lying in that tradition, his work has attracted attention in continental philosophy as well, particularly in literary theory and related areas.