Michael Dummett : Contributions to Philosophy PDF
Edited by B.M. Taylor
Part of the Nijhoff International Philosophy Series series
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P. A. Schilpp's 'Library of Living Philosophers' is the series which introduced to the philosophical community the format of a volume of essays on the work of a distinguished philosopher, combined with replies to the essays by the philosopher targeted.
The format proved attracti ve to a discipline which has always placed a high premium on debate.
But the Schilpp series has shown itself unenterprising in its choice of subjects, concentrating on end-of-year reports on philosophers who are of undoubted distinction, but whose contribution to the subject can be regarded as rather definitely over.
Which leaves a gap, which the present series is designed to fill, for volumes of a similar format aiming at assessment of philosophers who have distinguished themselves already by making a substan- tial impact on their discipline, but whose further work too is awaited with eager anticipation.
Michael Dummett is an ideal subject for a series with this goal of mid- term assessment.
His writings to date have permanently altered philosophy's conception of what is at issue between realism and idealism (and its paler cousin, anti-realism); and this has been achieved by way of a supplementary clarification of a host of issues in the philosophy of language and of mathematics, and of the Frege/Wittgenstein historical tradition from which such issues are typically approached in contemporary philosophy.
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- Publisher:Springer Netherlands
- Publication Date:06/12/2012
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- Publisher:Springer Netherlands
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- ISBN:9789400935419