Donald Davidson is the name of:
- Donald Davidson (poet) (1893–1968), American poet
- Donald Davidson (philosopher) (1917–2003), American philosopher
- Donald Davidson (historian), historian of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Famous quotes containing the words donald davidson and/or davidson:
“The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)
“How long she stayed I cannot tell;
But when she felt this perfidy,
She marched across the floor of hell;
And all the damned stood up to see.”
—John Davidson (1857–1909)