20th century · 1917–2003
Who influenced Donald Davidson?
Influences
Actions, events, and truth: meaning is public and charity is the rule.
Donald Davidson was influenced by Gilbert Ryle, W. V. O. Quine and Wilfrid Sellars. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Donald Davidson?
Donald Davidson taught at Stanford, Rockefeller, Princeton and Chicago before becoming professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was known for his charisma, his difficult prose and the systematic character of his philosophy.
From the 1960s on his work shaped the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language and the theory of action, and it has also drawn attention from continental philosophy and literary theory.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Donald Davidson?
3 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Gilbert Ryle 1900–1976
- W. V. O. Quine 1908–2000
- Wilfrid Sellars 1912–1989
The line of teachers behind Donald Davidson
The longest documented line of influence ending at Donald Davidson runs 28 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- T. H. Green
- F. H. Bradley
- Bertrand Russell
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Gilbert Ryle
- Donald Davidson
Two steps away from Donald Davidson
Indirect influences
- Through W. V. O. Quine: Bertrand Russell, Rudolf Carnap
- Through Gilbert Ryle: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Contemporaries of Donald Davidson
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Donald Davidson, with no direct line between them.
- Algirdas Julien Greimas 1917–1992
- Louis Althusser 1918–1990
- Roland Barthes 1915–1980
- G. E. M. Anscombe 1919–2001
- P. F. Strawson 1919–2006
- Philippa Foot 1920–2010
- Albert Camus 1913–1960
- John Rawls 1921–2002
Donald Davidson by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 3
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 125
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 33 — #68 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Schools and lineages
Questions about Donald Davidson
- Who influenced Donald Davidson?
- Gilbert Ryle, W. V. O. Quine and Wilfrid Sellars.
- Who did Donald Davidson influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Donald Davidson.
- When did Donald Davidson live?
- 1917–2003. The map files Donald Davidson under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Donald Davidson card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Donald Davidson in 33 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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