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Dummett on Abstract Objects

✍ Scribed by George Duke


Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Leaves
223
Series
History of Analytic Philosophy
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


This historically-informed critical assessment of Dummett's account of abstract objects, examines in detail some of the Fregean presuppositions of Dummett's account whilst also engaging with phenomenological approaches and recent work on the problem of abstract entities.

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