From Dummett's Philosophical Perspective

by Anat Matar

• ISBN13: 9783110149869
• ISBN10: 3110149869
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2013-02-06
• Publisher: De Gruyter

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
1 Introduction: Dummett's Key Traits	1	(14)
1.1 Optimism	1	(2)
1.2 Adventurousness	3	(2)
1.3 A thin layer of rationality	5	(2)
1.4 Frege and Wittgenstein	7	(2)
1.5 And Kant	9	(2)
1.6 Objectivism, relativism and the intermediate position	11	(1)
1.7 Two connected motivations for this book	12	(3)
2 Metaphilosophy	15	(24)
2.1 Truth (1)	18	(7)
2.2 Truth (2)	25	(7)
2.3 Philosophy and other disciplines	32	(7)
3 Anti-Realism: The General Picture	39	(31)
3.1 Anti-realism as linguistic Kantianism	40	(3)
3.2 Analytical philosophy	43	(5)
3.3 Objections to linguistic Kantianism	48	(22)
4 Anti-realism: The Semantical Details	70	(38)
4.1 Organic and hierarchical theory of meaning	73	(6)
4.2 Language, idiolects and the role of conventions	79	(10)
4.3 A 'full-blooded' theory	89	(5)
4.4 Justificationism	94	(11)
4.5 Addendum: Davidson	105	(3)
5 Anti-Psychologism Revisited	108	(27)
5.1 The cognitive component	112	(7)
5.2 Rationality and responsibility	119	(4)
5.3 Cognitive Sciences	123	(12)
6 Logic and Mathematics	135	(18)
6.1 Actual and Potential	135	(10)
6.2 Application and Innovation	145	(8)
7 Time	153	(19)
7.1 Wright's second picture	154	(8)
7.2 Wright's first picture	162	(6)
7.3 Conclusion	168	(4)
8 Normative Applications	172	(19)
8.1 Cognitivism and non-cognitivism	173	(6)
8.2 Objectivity and the rejection of bivalence	179	(5)
8.3 Systematization and criticism	184	(2)
8.4 Dummett's positions	186	(5)
9 Epilogue	191	(14)
10 Bibliography	205	(12)
11 Name Index	217