Davidson's philosophy and Chinese philosophy: constructive engagement

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcription -- Contributors -- How Constructive Engagement of Davidson's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy is Possible: A Theme Introduction -- PART ONE CONCEPTUAL SCHEMES, RELATIVISM, AND CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING -- Chapter One Relativism and Its Schemes -- Chapter Two Davidson and Chinese Conceptual Scheme -- Chapter Three Making Room for Comparative Philosophy: Davidson, Brandom, and Conceptual Distance -- PART TWO PRINCIPLE OF CHARITY AND CHINESE PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter Four Where Charity Begins -- Chapter Five Davidson's Charity in the Context of Chinese Philosophy -- PART THREE RATIONALITY, NORMATIVITY, AND INTER-CULTURAL DISAGREEMENT -- Chapter Six Davidsonian Rationality and Ethical Disagreement between Cultures -- Chapter Seven A Davidsonian Approach to Normativity and the Limits of Cross-Cultural Interpretation -- PART FOUR MEANING AND INTERPRETATION -- Chapter Eight On Two Kinds of Meaning and Interpretation -- Chapter Nine Metaphorical Use versus Metaphorical Essence: Examples from Chinese Philosophy -- Chapter Ten Reading the Analects with Davidson: Mood, Force, and Communicative Practice in Early China -- PART FIVE TRUTH CONCERN AND DAO CONCERN -- Chapter Eleven From Donald Davidson's Use of "Convention T" to Meaning and Truth in Chinese Language -- Chapter Twelve Truth Pursuit and Dao Pursuit: From Davidson's Approach to Classical Daoist Approach in View of the Thesis of Truth as Strategic Normative Goal -- Index.

This volume investigates how, through critical engagement, the philosophy of Donald Davidson in the Western analytic tradition and some thoughts and strands in Chinese philosophy can jointly contribute to the common philosophical enterprise and shows how such comparative methodology of constructive engagement is important or even indispensable in general philosophical inquiry. The anthology consists of 12 previously unpublished essays by experts in relevant areas of study, which are organized into five parts respectively on conceptual schemes and cross-cultural understanding, the principle of charity, rationality and normativity, meaning and interpretation, and truth concern and dao concern. The anthology also includes the volume editor's theme introduction on how the constructive engagement of Davidson's philosophy and Chinese philosophy is possible. Contributors include: Stephen C. Angle, Chung-ying Cheng, Kim-chong Chong, Yiu-ming Fung, Michael Krausz, A.P. Martinich, Bo Mou, Koji Tanaka, Samuel C. Wheeler, David B. Wong, Yang Xiao, and Yujian Zheng