Weak Wills
Colin McGinn, 5 September 1985
Essays on Davidson: Actions and Events
edited by Bruce Vermazen and Merrill Hintikka.
Oxford, 257 pp., £20, January 1985,0 19 824749 4 Show More
edited by Bruce Vermazen and Merrill Hintikka.
Oxford, 257 pp., £20, January 1985,
“... Donald Davidson has this year been George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford: only the second philosopher to hold the august position (the first being W.V. Quine, a teacher of Davidson’s at Harvard and his greatest philosophical influence). This honour reflects his present stature in the academic world. Last year he was the subject of a massive conference held in New Jersey, organised by the indefatigable Ernie Lepore ... ”