Language, Thought, and Logic Essays in Honour of Michael Dummett [Hardcover]

In this exciting new collection, a distinguished international group of philosophers contribute new essays on central issues in philosophy of language and logic, in honor of Michael Dummett, one of the most influential philosophers of the late twentieth century. The essays are focused on areas particularly associated with Professor Dummett. Five are contributions to the philosophy of language, addressing in particular the nature of truth and meaning and the relation between language and thought. Two contributors discuss time, in particular the reality of the past. The last four essays focus on Frege and the philosophy of mathematics. The volume represents some of the best work in contemporary analytical philosophy.

1. Concepts Without Words,Christopher Peacocke
2. Has Dummett Oversalted his Frege? Remarks on the Conveyability of Thought,Alexander George
3. Some Senses of Holism: An Anti-Realist's Guide to Quine,Sanford Shieh
4. Another Plea for Modesty,John McDowell
5. Rigidity and Content,Jason Stanley
6. The Realism of Memory,John Campbell
7. Dummett's McTaggart,Barry Taylor
8. On the Philosophical Significance of Frege's Theorem,Crispin Wright
9. Is Hume's Principle Analytic?,George Boolos
10. Wright on Abstraction and Set Theory,Charles Parsons
11. The Julius Caesar Objection,Richard G. Heck, Jr