American philosopher who developed anomalous monism — mental events are physical but mental descriptions are irreducible — truth-conditional semantics based on Tarski, and the principle of charity in interpretation.
Anomalous monism: mental events are identical to physical events, but mental descriptions cannot be reduced to physical laws. Radical interpretation: to understand a speaker, we must assume most of their beliefs are true (principle of charity) — providing the conditions for the possibility of language. Triangulation: knowledge of the external world, knowledge of other minds, and self-knowledge are mutually dependent.
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