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Book SynopsisEver since the publication of 'Truth' in 1959 Sir Michael Dummett has been acknowledged as one of the most profoundly creative and influential of contemporary philosophers. His contributions to the philosophy of thought and language, logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics have set the terms of some of most fruitful discussions in philosophy. His work on Frege stands unparalleled, both as landmark in the history of philosophy and as a deep reflection on the defining commitments of the analytic school. This volume of specially composed essays on Dummett's philosophy presents a new perspective on his achievements, and provides a focus for further research fully informed by the Dummett's most recent publications. Collectively the essays in philosophy of mathematics provide the most sustained discussion to date of the role of Dummett's diagnosis of the root of the logico-mathematical paradoxes in his case for an intuitionist revision of classical mathematics. The themes of other essays include a fundamental challenge to Dummett's Fregean understanding of predication, and a criticism of his case for logical revision outside of mathematics.
Trade Review"rich in suggestions and details … should be recommended to the readers of Michael Dummett who are interested in obtaining a deeper understanding of some tensions in his philosophy of mathematics and his philosophy of language." - in: Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2001 "… eleven stimulating essays … they distinguish themselves by concentrating on Dummett’s most recently published work. The result is a collection which is both sophisticated and up to date." - in: The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 201 (October 2000)
Table of ContentsPreface. I. PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS. Timothy WILLIAMSON: Indefinite Extensibility. Alex OLIVER: Hazy Totalities and Indefinitely Extensible Concepts: An Exercise in the Interpretation of Dummett's Philosophy of Mathematics. Klaus PUHL and Sonja RINOFNER-KREIDL: Is Every Mentalism a Kind of Psychologism? Michael Dummett's Critique of Edmund Husserl and Gareth Evans. Crispin WRIGHT: Why Frege did not Deserve his Granum Salis. A Note on the Paradox of The Concept Horse and the Ascription of Bedeutungen to Predicates. Peter CLARK: Dummett's Argument for the Indefinite Extensibility of Set and Real Number. Alan WEIR: Dummett on Impredicativity. A.W. MOORE: More on 'The Philosophical Significance of Gödel's Theorem'. Michael POTTER: Classical Arithmetic is Part of Intuitionistic Arithmetic. Eric P. TSUI-JAMES: Dummett, Brouwer and the Metaphysics of Mathematics. II. PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE. Charles TRAVIS: Sublunary Intuitionism. John CAMPBELL: Sense and Consciousness.
