I just saw that there was a slip of the tongue at my very first mention of Davidson, answering the question around 40:00. Davidson was, of course, NOT opposed to a truth conditional semantics. What he was opposed to was the idea that expressions generally have meanings like, say, Carnapian intensions. So a referential semantics over possible worlds for natural language semantics, as pioneered by David Lewis or Richard Montague, for example, was an approach he was opposed to. The rest of the interview makes that clear.
I just saw that there was a slip of the tongue at my very first mention of Davidson, answering the question around 40:00. Davidson was, of course, NOT opposed to a truth conditional semantics. What he was opposed to was the idea that expressions generally have meanings like, say, Carnapian intensions. So a referential semantics over possible worlds for natural language semantics, as pioneered by David Lewis or Richard Montague, for example, was an approach he was opposed to. The rest of the interview makes that clear.
thanks for clarifying!
one of my favourite linguists of all time - thanks for interviewing her!
We stan Angelika, had lots of fun reading her work during my studies.