The Philosophy of Michael Dummett - Synthese Library 1994 edition

Marc Notes: Papers presented at the First International Philosophy Conference of Mussomeli, Sicily, Sept. 1991.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-377) and index. Table of Contents: Preface. Abbreviations. Part 1: Philosophy of Language. The Social Aspect of Language; D. Davidson. Singular Terms; B. Hale. Philosophical Theorizing and Particularism: Michael Dummett on Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy of Language; D. Pears. Convention and Assertion; E. Picardi. Meaning Theory and Anti-Realism; D. Prawitz. Part 2: Philosophy of Mathematics. Anti-Realism and the Philosophy of Mathematics; G. Oliveri. Dummett and Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics; C. Penco. Vestiges of Realism; G. Sundholm. About the Philosophical Significance of Godel's Theorem': Some Issues; C. Wright. Part 3: Philosophy of Mind, Time and Religion. Dummett, Realism and Other Minds; A. Bilgrami. Truth, Time and Deity; B. F. McGuinness. Leaving the Past Where it Belongs; J. Schulte. Part 4: Dummett's Replies. Reply to Davidson. Reply to Hale. Reply to Pears. Reply to Picardi. Reply to Prawitz. Reply to Oliveri. Reply to Penco. Reply to Sundholm. Reply to Wright. Reply to Bilgrami. Reply to McGuinness. Reply to Schulte. Bibliography. Index."Publisher Marketing: This text contains seminal discussions of central issues in the philosophy of language, mathematics, mind, religion and time. Is common language conceptually prior to idiolectics? What is a theory of meaning? Does constructivism provide a satisfactory account of mathematics? What are indefinitely extensible concepts? Can we change the past? These are some of the questions addressed here.

Contributor Bio:  McGuinness, Brian Brian McGuinness is now Professor of the History of Philosophy at Siena. Past publications include the translation of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" (with David Pears) and "A Life of Wittegenstein" (Volume 1, "Young Ludwig," 1988). George Henrik von Wright was a pupil and friend of Wittgenstein and succeeded him as Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. He has since been President of the National Academy in his native Finland. He is one of the trustees to the Wittgenstein estate, and responsible for many of the posthumous publications of Wittgensteins writings. Contributor Bio:  Oliveri, Gianluigi Oliveri is with Wolfson College.