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KANT ON EMOTION AND VALUE
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PLATO ON ART AND BEAUTY
David Dolby ( editor )
RYLE ON MIND AND LANGUAGE
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ARISTOTLE ON METHOD AND METAPHYSICS
Brian Garvey ( editor )
J. L. AUSTIN ON LANGUAGE
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HEGEL ON ACTION
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SARTRE ON THE BODY
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HUME ON MOTIVATION AND VIRTUE
Christopher Pulman ( editor )
HART ON RESPONSIBILITY
Sabine Roeser
REID ON ETHICS
Henrik Rydenfelt and Sami Pihlström ( editors )
WILLIAM JAMES ON RELIGION
Daniel Whiting ( editor )
THE LATER WITTGENSTEIN ON LANGUAGE
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Pierre Destree ( editor )
ARISTOTLE ON AESTHETICS
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Dummett on Analytical
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Dummett on analytical philosophy / [edited by] Bernhard Weiss,
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ISBN 978–1–137–40069–7
1. Dummett, Michael, 1925–2011. 2. Analysis (Philosophy)
3. Metaphysics. 4. Frege, Gottlob, 1848–1925. I. Weiss, Bernhard, editor.
B1626.D854D86 2015
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In memory of
Professor Sir Michael Dummett
Contents
Acknowledgements v iii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Bernhard Weiss
1 Dummett on the Logical Basis of Metaphysics 9
A.W. Moore
2 Seeking the Logical Basis of Metaphysics 3 8
Cora Diamond
3 How Rare Is Chairman Mao? Dummett, Frege and
the Austere Conception of Nonsense 8 4
Sanford Shieh
4 Making Knowledge of Meaning Explicit 1 22
Bernhard Weiss
5 Frege on That-Clauses 135
Wolfgang Künne
6 Dummett on Frege on Functions 174
Karen Green
7 Meaning and Dummett’s Austrians 195
Peter Simons
8 Dummett, the Frege–Husserl Exchange and
the Analytical Tradition 211
George Duke
Index 2 33
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Acknowledgements
I’d like to record my thanks to the following: my contributors for
accepting my invitation and for abiding by our deadline; the series
editor, Constantine Sandis, for the initial suggestion and invitation,
and his work on the final draft; an anonymous reviewer for Palgrave
Macmillan for comments on both the proposal and the final draft; and
both Brendan George and Esmé Chapman at Palgrave Macmillan for
overseeing the project.
I am grateful to Cambridge University Press for permission to include
A.W. Moore’s chapter which was previously published as ‘Dummett: The
Logical Basis of Metaphysics’, pp. 345–68 in his T he Evolution of Modern
Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things , 2012, Cambridge University Press.
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Notes on Contributors
Cora D iamond , Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia, has written
extensively on the history of analytical philosophy and on Frege
and Wittgenstein. She also has interests in other areas of philosophy
including ethics. She is widely known as one of the main inspirations
for the new Wittgensteinian reading of Wittgenstein’s corpus. She is the
author of The Realistic Spirit (1995).
George D uke , Senior Lecturer, Deakin University, Australia, has written
a number of papers on Dummett’s philosophy and in the history of
philosophy. He is the author of Dummett on Abstract Objects (2012).
Karen Green , Professor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne,
Australia, combines her interest in Dummett’s philosophy with an
interest in feminist philosophy and has written widely on Christine de
Pizan. She is the author of Dummett: Philosophy of Language (2001) and
co-author with Jacqueline Broad of A History of Women’s Political Thought
in Europe 1400–1700 (2009).
Wolfgang Künne , Professor of Philosophy, University of Hamburg,
Germany, has written widely in the philosophy of language, ontology,
epistemology and on the philosophies of Frege and Brentano. He is the
author of, among other books, Conceptions of Truth (2003).
A.W. Moore , Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, is inter-
ested in the philosophies of logic, language and mathematics and in
Kant and Wittgenstein. He is the author of T he Infinite (1990), P oints of
View (1997), N oble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in
Kant’s Moral and Religious Philosophy (2003) and T he Evolution of Modern
Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things (2012).
Sanford Shieh , Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University,
US, has written widely on the philosophy of Dummett and Frege, and in
the areas of the philosophies of logic, language and mathematics and in
the history of analytical philosophy.
Peter Simons , Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland,
has written extensively on metaphysics; the philosophies of math-
ematics and logic; and the history of analytical philosophy. He is the
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