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Title: The Logical Basis of Metaphysics (The William James Lectures, 1976) by Michael Dummett ISBN: 0-674-53786-6 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Summary: A landmark in analytical philosophy.
Comment: Hilary Putnam describes this as "one of the true high-water marks of twentieth century philosophy", John McDowell said "this is an extraordinarily important book", and, when I was a graduate student, a philosopher described it to a class of graduate students as being perhaps the most profound work on truth-conditional theory of meaning in the twentieth century; since Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus also deals with truth-conditional theories of meaning (so I would argue, at least), that is quite a claim.
If these names - Wittgenstein, McDowell and Putnam - mean anything to you, Dummett's name should be just as familiar, and this book should need no further recommendation. If you have not heard of these people, you are probably not acquainted with analytical philosophy, one of the most influential forms of philosophy in the twentieth century. Analytical philosophers tend to approach philosophical problems by means of philosophy of language: typically, they ask about meaning. In this book, Dummett attempts to explain what a theory of meaning is, why a theory of meaning has metaphysical implications, and how theories of meaning can be evaluated. His claim is that metaphysical problems are, fundamentally, problems about what logic to adopt, and that a theory of meaning can be used to justify a logic. This work raises issues that are deep, but also highly technical, and certainly not for a novice. Don't even try to read this book unless you've spent some time studying analytical philosophy, and have decided that it interests you. But if you are seriously interested in analytical philosophy, this is a book that you really should try to read.
If you want to begin reading Dummett, this is not the best place. Its the definitive statement of his position, aimed primarily at other experts in the field. His ideas can be found in a less comprehensive but slightly more digestible form in two anthologies of his, Truth and Other Enigmas and The Seas of Language. The latter is probably slightly easier for beginners.
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Title: The Seas of Language by Michael Dummett ISBN: 0198236212 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $42.00 |
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Title: Truth and Other Enigmas by Michael Dummett ISBN: 0674910761 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1981 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Logical Syntax of Language (Open Court Classics) by Rudolf Carnap, Amethe Smeaton ISBN: 0812695240 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Mind and World by John McDowell ISBN: 0674576101 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) by William G. Lycan ISBN: 0415171164 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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