The Philosophy of Michael Dummett

(Volume XXXI, 2007)

Sir Michael Dummett (he was knighted in 1991) is one of the most influential of living philosophers. His own contributions to philosophy have been bound up with his interpretations of the earlier philosophers Frege and Wittgenstein. Dummett's 1973 book on Frege helped to make Frege's thought central to modern philosophy. Dummett has made many contributions to philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. His most celebrated achievement is his new way of looking at distinction between realism and anti-realism. In addition to philosophy, Dummett has written on immigration law, English usage, Roman Catholic doctrine, and the history of the tarot.

 

Michael Dummett: Intellectual Autobiography

(replies follow essays)

Brian McGuinness: Coming to Terms with Wittgenstein

Jan Dejnozka: Dummett's Backward Road to Frege and to Intuitionism

James W. Allard: Realism, Anti-realism, and Absolute Idealism

Hilary Putnam: Between Scylla and Charybdis: Does Dummett Have a Way Through?

Ernie LePore and Kirk Ludwig: The Reality of Language: On the Davidson/Dummett Exchange

Peter Simons: What Numbers Really Are

Anat Matar: Radically Different: On Dummett's Metaphilosophy

John Campbell: If Truth is Dethroned, What Role is Left for It?

Wolfgang Künne: Two Principles Concerning Truth

John McDowell: Dummett on Truth Conditions and Meaning

Akeel Bilgrami: Pursuing an Analogy

Crispin Wright: "Wang's Paradox"

Dag Prawitz: Pragmatist and Verificationist Theories of Meaning

Eva Picardi: On Sense, Tone, and Accompanying Thoughts

Richard G. Heck, Jr.: Use and Meaning

Carlo Penco: Idiolect and Context

Bernhard Weiss: Molecularity and Revisionism

Christian Thiel: The Operation Called Abstraction

Ian Rumfitt: Asserting and Excluding: Steps Towards an Anti-Realist Account of Classical Consequence

Marco Santambrogio: Belief and Deductive Inference

Pascal Engel: Dummett, Achilles, and the Tortoise

Peter M. Sullivan: Dummett's Case for Constructivist Logicism

Maurice Salles: Michael Dummett on Social Choice and Voting

Kwame Anthony Appiah: Immigrants and Refugees: Individualism and the Moral Status of Strangers

Ann Dummett: Work against Racism

Andrew Beards: Dummett: Philosophy and Religion

Thierry DePaulis: The First Golden Age of the Tarot in France

 

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