Table of Contents

* Acknowledgments * Preface * Note *1. Truth *2. Presupposition *3. The Structure of Appearance *4. Nominalism *5. Constructionalism *6. George Boole *7. Frege on Functions *8. Frege's Philosophy *9. Frege's Distinction between Sense and Reference *10. Realism *11. Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics *12. The Philosophical Significance of Godel's Theorem *13. Platonism *14. The Philosophical Basis of Intuitionistic Logic *15. Wang's Paradox *16. Is Logic Empirical? *17. The Justification of Deduction *18. Can an Effect Precede its Cause? *19. Bringing About the Past *20. A Defence of McTaggart's Proof of the Unreality of Time *21. The Reality of the Past *22. The Significance of Quine's Indeterminacy Thesis *23. The Social Character of Meaning *24. Oxford Philosophy *25. Can Analytical Philosophy be Systematic, and Ought it to Be? * Details of Publication * Index

About the Author

Michael Dummett was Wykeham Professor of Logic, Emeritus, at the University of Oxford.

Reviews

Dummett is one of the outstanding philosophers of the present time… The present volume should consolidate and enhance this reputation… His work demands exceptionally close reading, but also repays it.
*The Observer*

The interest [of these essays] is heightened by their being assembled together in a single volume, which gives us a clearer picture of Dummett’s philosophy than we were likely to have beforehand… This book will be argued with often and in many places in the years to come. It is a measure of the importance of his work.
*Philosophical Books*

These writings…explore the theory of meaning as pivotally important for the analysis of truth and…traditional metaphysical questions… Dummett’s work is technical but always lucid, and it is of fundamental importance.
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