The Philosophy of Michael Dummett

FRONTISPIECE iv GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LIBRARY OF LIVING PHILOSOPHERS vii FOUNDER'S GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LIBRARY OF LIVING PHILOSOPHERS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xii PREFACE xvii PART ONE: INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MICHAEL DUMMETT 1 SAMPLE OF DUMMETT'S HANDWRITING 2 INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MICHAEL DUMMETT 3 PART TWO: DESCRIPTIVE AND CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MICHAEL DUMMETT, WITH REPLIES 33 I. HISTORICAL CONTEXT 1. BRIAN MCGUINNESS: Coming to Terms with Wittgenstein 35 REPLY TO BRIAN MCGUINNESS 51 2. JAN DEJNO KA: Dummett's Backward Road to Frege and to Intuitionism 55 REPLY TO JAN DEJNO KA 114 3. JAMES W. ALLARD: Realism, Anti-realism, and Absolute Idealism 127 REPLY TO JAMES W. ALLARD 147 II. LANGUAGE AND THE REAL 4. HILARY PUTNAM: Between Scylla and Charybdis: Does Dummett Have a Way Through? 155 REPLY TO HILARY PUTNAM 168 5. ERNIE LEPORE AND KIRK LUDWIG: The Reality of Language: On the Davidson/Dummett Exchange 185 REPLY TO LEPORE AND LUDWIG 215 6. PETER SIMONS: What Numbers Really Are 229 REPLY TO PETER SIMONS 248 7. ANAT MATAR: Radically Different: On Dummett's Metaphilosophy 259 REPLY TO ANAT MATAR 276 III. LANGUAGE AND TRUTH 8. JOHN CAMPBELL: If Truth Is Dethroned, What Role Is Left for It?" 281 REPLY TO JOHN CAMPBELL 301 9. WOLFGANG K NE: Two Principles Concerning Truth 315 REPLY TO WOLFGANG K NE 345 10. JOHN MCDOWELL: Dummett on Truth Conditions and Meaning 351 REPLY TO JOHN MCDOWELL 367 11. AKEEL BILGRAMI: Pursuing an Analogy 383 REPLY TO AKEEL BILGRAMI 409 12. CRISPIN WRIGHT: "Wang's Paradox" 415 REPLY TO CRISPIN WRIGHT 445 IV. LANGUAGE AND MEANING 13. DAG PRAWITZ: Pragmatist and Verificationist Theories of Meaning 455 REPLY TO DAG PRAWITZ 482 14. EVA PICARDI: On Sense, Tone, and Accompanying Thoughts 491 REPLY TO EVA PICARDI 521 15. RICHARD G. HECK, JR.: Use and Meaning 531 REPLY TO RICHARD G HECK, JR. 558 16. CARLO PENCO: Idiolect and Context 567 REPLY TO CARLO PENCO 591 17. BERNHARD WEISS: Molecularity and Revisionism 601 REPLY TO BERNHARD WEISS 617 V. LANGUAGE AND LOGIC 18. CHRISTIAN THIEL: The Operation Called Abstraction 623 REPLY TO CHRISTIAN THIEL 634 19. IAN RUMFITT: Asserting and Excluding: Steps Towards an Anti-realist Account of Classical Consequence 639 REPLY TO IAN RUMFITT 694 20. MARCO SANTAMBROGIO: Belief and Deductive Inference 699 REPLY TO MARCO SANTAMBROGIO 719 21. PASCAL ENGEL: Dummett, Achilles, and the Tortoise 725 REPLY TO PASCAL ENGEL 747 22. PETER M. SULLIVAN: Dummett's Case for Constructivist Logicism 753 REPLY TO PETER M. SULLIVAN 786 VI. NOT BY LANGUAGE ALONE 23. MAURICE SALLES: Michael Dummett on Social Choice and Voting 801 REPLY TO MAURICE SALLES 819 24. KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH: Immigrants and Refugees: Individualism and the Moral Status of Strangers 825 REPLY TO KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH 841 25. ANN DUMMETT: Work against Racism 845 REPLY TO ANN DUMMETT 856 26. ANDREW BEARDS: Dummett: Philosophy and Religion 863 REPLY TO ANDREW BEARDS 889 27. THIERRY DEPAULIS: The First Golden Age of the Tarot in France 901 REPLY TO THIERRY DEPAULIS 913 PART THREE: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF MICHAEL DUMMETT 919 INDEX 935