Dummett on Analytical Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Bernhard Weiss

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Series: Philosophers in Depth
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Dummett argues that the aim of philosophy is the analysis of thought and that, with Frege, analytical philosophy learned that the route to the analysis of thought is the analysis of language. Here are bold and deep readings of the subject's history and character, which form the topic of this volume.

✦ Table of Contents

Bernhard Weiss: Introduction
1 A.W. Moore: Dummett on the Logical Basis of Metaphysics
2 Cora Diamond: Seeking the Logical Basis of Metaphysics
3 Sanford Shieh: How Rare Is Chairman Mao? Dummett, Frege and the Austere Conception of Nonsense
4 Bernhard Weiss: Making Knowledge of Meaning Explicit
5 Wolfgang Künne: Frege on That-Clauses
6 Karen Green: Dummett on Frege on Functions
7 Peter Simons: Meaning and Dummett’s Austrians
8 George Duke: Dummett, the Frege–Husserl Exchange and the Analytical Tradition

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