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Dummett: Philosophy of Language Hardcover - 2001 - 1st Edition

by Karen Green

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Dummett's first published book was an extended discussion of Frege, in which he set out his understanding of Frege's realist semantics and developed his central criticisms of semantic theories which are grounded in realist truth.

From the rear cover

Michael Dummett stands out among his generation as the only British philosopher of language to rival in stature the Americans, Davidson and Quine. In conjunction with them he has been responsible for much of the framework within which questions concerning meaning and understanding are raised and answered in the late twentieth-century Anglo-American tradition. Dummett's output has been prolific and highly influential, but not always as accessible as it deserves to be. This book sets out to rectify this situation.

Karen Green offers the first comprehensive introduction to Dummett's philosophy of language, providing an overview and summary of his most important arguments. She argues that Dummett should not be understood as a determined advocate of anti-realism, but that his greatest contribution to the philosophy of language is to have set out the strengths and weaknesses of the three most influential positions within contemporary theory of meaning - realism, as epitomized by Frege, the holism to be found in Wittgenstein, Quine and Davidson and the constructivism which can be extracted from Brouwer. It demonstrates that analytic philosophy as Dummett practices it, is by no means an outmoded approach to thinking about language, but that it is relevant both to cognitive science and to phenomenology.

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  • Title Dummett: Philosophy of Language
  • Author Karen Green
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press, United Kingdom
  • Date September 1, 2001
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780745622941 / 0745622941
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.36 x 6.28 x 0.9 in (23.77 x 15.95 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Language and languages - Philosophy, Dummett, Michael A. E
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001021061
  • Dewey Decimal Code 121.680

About the author

Karen Green is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Monash University, Australia.

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