Michael Dummett is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers; this book covers his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of language, two branches of philosophy that are closely intertwined. It contains twenty essays that have not appeared in his previous collections Truth and Other Enigmas and Frege and Other Philosophers; of these essays, three are previously unpublished, one appears here in English for the first time, and others have been difficult of access until now.
Michael Dummett is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers; this book covers his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of language, two branches of philosophy that are closely intertwined. It contains twenty essays that have not appeared in his previous collections Truth and Other Enigmas and Frege and Other Philosophers; of these essays, three are previously unpublished, one appears here in English for the first time, and others have been difficult of access until now.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael Dummett was, until his retirement in 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford and a Fellow of New College. He has held visiting professorships at Stanford, Harvard, Minnesota, Princeton, Rockefeller, and Münster universities. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Nijmegen, an Honorary Docteur ès Lettres at the University of Caen, and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A previous collection of his essays was published as Frege and Other Philosophers by OUP in 1991 and sold over 1200 copies.
Inhaltsangabe
1: What is a Theory of Meaning? (I) 2: What is a Theory of Meaning? (II) 3: What do I Know When I Know a Language? 4: What does the Appeal to Use do for the Theory of Meaning? 5: Language and Truth 6: Truth and Meaning 7: Language and Communication 8: The Source of the Concept of Truth 9: Mood, Force, and Convention 10: Frege and Husserl on Reference 11: Realism 12: Existence 13: Does Quantification Involve Identity? 14: Could there be Unicorns? + 15: Causal Loops 16: Common Sense and Physics 17: Testimony and Memory 18: What is Mathematics About? 19: Wittgenstein on Necessity: Some Reflections 20: Realism and Anti-Realism
1: What is a Theory of Meaning? (I) 2: What is a Theory of Meaning? (II) 3: What do I Know When I Know a Language? 4: What does the Appeal to Use do for the Theory of Meaning? 5: Language and Truth 6: Truth and Meaning 7: Language and Communication 8: The Source of the Concept of Truth 9: Mood, Force, and Convention 10: Frege and Husserl on Reference 11: Realism 12: Existence 13: Does Quantification Involve Identity? 14: Could there be Unicorns? + 15: Causal Loops 16: Common Sense and Physics 17: Testimony and Memory 18: What is Mathematics About? 19: Wittgenstein on Necessity: Some Reflections 20: Realism and Anti-Realism
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