Dummett on Analytical Philosophy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction

   • Bernhard Weiss

   Pages 1-8

3. Dummett on the Logical Basis of Metaphysics

   • A. W. Moore

   Pages 9-37

4. Seeking the Logical Basis of Metaphysics

   • Cora Diamond

   Pages 38-83

5. How Rare Is Chairman Mao? Dummett, Frege and the Austere Conception of Nonsense

   • Sanford Shieh

   Pages 84-121

6. Making Knowledge of Meaning Explicit

   • Bernhard Weiss

   Pages 122-134

7. Frege on That-Clauses

   • Wolfgang Künne

   Pages 135-173

8. Dummett on Frege on Functions

   • Karen Green

   Pages 174-194

9. Meaning and Dummett’s Austrians

   • Peter Simons

   Pages 195-210

10. Dummett, the Frege-Husserl Exchange and the Analytical Tradition

    • George Duke

    Pages 211-231

11. Back Matter

    Pages 233-236

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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.

• Dummett
• analytical philosophy
• philosophy of language
• theory of meaning
• meaning
• realism
• anti-realism
• nonsense
• metaphysics
• logic
• Frege
• Husserl
• Brentano
• argue
• Cora Diamond
• language
• philosophy
• physics

• University of Cape Town, South Africa

  Bernhard Weiss

Cora Diamond, University of Virginia, USA George Duke, Deakin University, Australia Karen Green, University of Melbourne, Australia Wolfgang Künne, University of Hamburg, Germany Adrian Moore, University of Oxford, UK Sanford Shieh, Wesleyan University, USA Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Bernhard Weiss, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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