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Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674537866
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Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Michael Dummett's new book is the greatly expanded and recently revised version of his distinguished William James Lectures, delivered in 1976. Dummett regards the construction of a satisfactory theory of meaning as the most pressing task of contemporary analytical philosophy. He believes that the successful completion of this difficult assignment will lead to a resolution of problems before which philosophy has been stalled, in some instances for centuries. These problems turn on the correctness or incorrectness of a realistic view of one or another realm--the physical world, the mind, the past, mathematical reality, and so forth. Rejection of realism amounts to adoption of a variant semantics, and often of a variant logic, for the statements in a certain sector of our language. Dummett does not assume the correctness of any one logical system but shows how the choice between different logics arises at the level of the theory of meaning and depends upon the choice of one or another general form of meaning-theory. In order to determine the correct shape for a meaning-theory, we must attain a clear conception of what a meaning-theory can be expected to do. Such a conception, says Dummett, will form "a base camp for an assault on the metaphysical peaks: I have no greater ambition in this book than to set up a base camp."
Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Logic
ISBN : 9780715623619
Michael Dummett's new book is the greatly expanded and recently revised version of his distinguished William James Lectures, delivered in 1976. Dummett regards the construction of a satisfactory theory of meaning as the most pressing task of contemporary analytical philosophy. He believes that the successful completion of this difficult assignment will lead to a resolution of problems before which philosophy has been stalled, in some instances for centuries. These problems turn on the correctness or incorrectness of a realistic view of one or another realm--the physical world, the mind, the past, mathematical reality, and so forth. Rejection of realism amounts to adoption of a variant semantics, and often of a variant logic, for the statements in a certain sector of our language. Dummett does not assume the correctness of any one logical system but shows how the choice between different logics arises at the level of the theory of meaning and depends upon the choice of one or another general form of meaning-theory. In order to determine the correct shape for a meaning-theory, we must attain a clear conception of what a meaning-theory can be expected to do. Such a conception, says Dummett, will form a base camp for an assault on the metaphysical peaks: I have no greater ambition in this book than to set up a base camp.
Author : Penelope Rush
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1107039649
This wide-ranging collection of essays explores the nature of logic and the key issues and debates in the metaphysics of logic.
Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1472528581
The twentieth century was marked by the triumph of the 'analytic' tradition of philosophy, which remains to this day the dominant mainstream of philosophical thought and teaching. In his landmark reflection and exploration of the origins of analytic philosophy, Michael Dummett vividly explores the roots of that tradition in the writings of such German and Austrian thinkers as Frege, Husserl and Wittgenstein. Disputing the notion of analytic philosophy as an 'Anglo-American' tradition, Dummett finds a shared well-spring in the works of the analytic and phenomenological traditions. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, Origins of Analytical Philosophy remains a vital read for anyone interested in the development of twentieth century thought and the history of philosophy.
Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674910768
A collection of all but two of the author's philosophical essays and lectures originally published or presented before August 1976.
Author : Michael Dummett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780674319356
No one has figured more prominently in the study of the German philosopher Gottlob Frege than Michael Dummett. His magisterial Frege: Philosophy of Language is a sustained, systematic analysis of Frege's thought, omitting only the issues in philosophy of mathematics. In this work Dummett discusses, section by section, Frege's masterpiece The Foundations of Arithmetic and Frege's treatment of real numbers in the second volume of Basic Laws of Arithmetic, establishing what parts of the philosopher's views can be salvaged and employed in new theorizing, and what must be abandoned, either as incorrectly argued or as untenable in the light of technical developments. Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher whose work had enormous impact on Bertrand Russell and later on the young Ludwig Wittgenstein, making Frege one of the central influences on twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy; he is considered the founder of analytic philosophy. His philosophy of mathematics contains deep insights and remains a useful and necessary point of departure for anyone seriously studying or working in the field.
Author : Timothy Williamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019955207X
Timothy Williamson gives an original and provocative treatment of deep metaphysical questions about existence, contingency, and change, using the latest resources of quantified modal logic. Contrary to the widespread assumption that logic and metaphysics are disjoint, he argues that modal logic provides a structural core for metaphysics.
Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 1984-07-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253207647
Offering a full-scale study of the theory of reality hidden beneath modern logic, The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic, a lecture course given in 1928, illuminates the transitional phase in Heidegger's thought from the existential analysis of Being and Time to the overcoming of metaphysics in his later philosophy. In a searching exposition of the metaphysical problems underpinning Leibniz's theory of logical judgment, Heidegger establishes that a given theory of logic is rooted in a certain conception of Being. He explores the significance of Western logic as a system-building technical tool and as a cultural phenomenon that is centuries old.
Author : A. W. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521616557
This book charts the evolution of metaphysics since Descartes and provides a compelling case for why metaphysics matters.