<DIV>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.</DIV>
Dummett on Abstract Objects
β Scribed by George Duke (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 222
- Series
- History of Analytic Philosophy
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-16
The Fregean Notion of an Object....Pages 17-34
Psychologism and Objectivity....Pages 35-60
The Context Principle....Pages 61-79
A Problem about Reference....Pages 80-98
The Concrete-Abstract Distinction....Pages 99-116
Tolerant Reductionism....Pages 117-144
Mathematical Objects....Pages 145-175
Conclusion....Pages 176-177
Back Matter....Pages 178-212
β¦ Subjects
History of Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Analytic Philosophy; Logic; Modern Philosophy
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