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70
Citations
36230
World Ranking
749
National Ranking
355

Overview

Donald Davidson was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focused on engineering and chemical engineering, with notable contributions across several specialized subfields.

The main subjects of their work included advanced combustion engine technologies, combustion and flame dynamics, spectroscopy and laser applications, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, heat transfer and supercritical fluids, combustion and detonation processes, and thermochemical biomass conversion processes.

Donald Davidson published extensively, including recent papers such as:

  • A physics-based approach to modeling real-fuel combustion chemistry - VI. Predictive kinetic models of gasoline fuels, 2020, Combustion and Flame
  • The thermal decomposition of ethane, 2020, Fuel
  • Shock tube/laser absorption measurements of the pyrolysis of JP-10 fuel, 2020, Combustion and Flame
  • Shock tube study of ethanol pyrolysis I: Multi-species time-history measurements, 2021, Combustion and Flame
  • Shock-induced ignition and pyrolysis of high-pressure methane and natural gas mixtures, 2020, Combustion and Flame

Frequent co-authors who collaborated with Davidson included Ronald K. Hanson, Jiankun Shao, Rishav Choudhary, Séan J. Cassady, and Nicolas H. Pinkowski.

Davidson's work appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Combustion and Flame
  • Fuel
  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • International Journal of Chemical Kinetics

Their contributions strengthened knowledge in subfields such as fluid flow and transfer processes, computational mechanics, spectroscopy, atmospheric science, and aerospace engineering.

Best Publications

  • Essays on actions and events

    Donald Davidson

  • Inquiries into truth and interpretation

    Donald Davidson

  • The Logical Form of Action Sentences

    Donald Davidson

  • Actions, reasons, and causes

    Donald Davidson

  • Truth and Meaning

    Donald Davidson

  • On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme

    Donald Davidson

  • Semantics of natural language

    Donald Davidson;Gilbert Harman

  • What Metaphors Mean

    Donald Davidson

  • Knowing One’s Own Mind

    Donald Davidson

  • A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge

    Donald Davidson

  • Subjective, intersubjective, objective

    Donald Davidson

  • The Structure and Content of Truth

    Donald Davidson

  • A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs

    Donald Davidson

  • The Individuation of Events

    Donald Davidson

  • Paradoxes of Irrationality

    Donald Davidson

  • On Saying That

    Donald Davidson

  • Three Varieties of Knowledge

    Donald Davidson

  • How Is Weakness of the Will Possible

    Donald Davidson

  • Thought and Talk

    Donald Davidson

  • Belief and the basis of meaning

    Donald Davidson

  • First Person Authority

    Donald Davidson

  • The folly of trying to define truth

    Donald Davidson

  • Truth, language and history

    Donald Davidson

  • Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel

    Carl G. Hempel;Donald Davidson;Nicholas Rescher

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaakko Hintikka
Jaakko Hintikka Boston University
Wesley C. Salmon
Wesley C. Salmon University of Pittsburgh
Patrick Suppes
Patrick Suppes Stanford University
Gilbert Harman
Gilbert Harman Princeton University
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty Stanford University
Nicholas Rescher
Nicholas Rescher University of Pittsburgh
William P. Alston
William P. Alston Syracuse University

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