Dummett Michael 1925 (7 results)
Language: German
Published by Ffm.: Suhrkamp, 1992, 1992
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Add to basketTb. Softcover. 200 S. Anhang: Gespräch m. M. Dummett. Register. (Nahezu sehr gut).
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Published by Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991., 1991
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xi, 1 leaf, 355 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in very good+ dust jacket (a few small closed tears along edges). The William James Lectures 1976. 'Dummett's program for the assessment of metaphysical claims and logical principles, alongside his landm…ark interpretation of Frege, is his most enduring contribution to philosophy. The specific significance of this approach for the philosophies of mathematics and of logic consists in Dummett's application of it to a defense of intuitionism. The general outlines of the approach are familiar; but a number of questions have remained about how exactly Dummett's arguments work. The present text is a detailed elaboration of the philosophical framework underlying Dummett's program; thus one naturally looks to it to clear up the puzzles of earlier presentations and applications of the program' (Sanford Shieh, review for The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 58, No. 3, Sept., 1993, pp. 1086-1090). 'Michael Dummett's new book is the greatly expanded and recently revised version of his distinguished William James Lectures, delivered in 1976. Dummett regards the construction of a satisfactory theory of meaning as the most pressing task of contemporary analytical philosophy. He believes that the successful completion of this difficult assignment will lead to a resolution of problems before which philosophy has been stalled, in some instances for centuries. These problems turn on the correctness or incorrectness of a realistic view of one or another realm--the physical world, the mind, the past, mathematical reality, and so forth. Rejection of realism amounts to adoption of a variant semantics, and often of a variant logic, for the statements in a certain sector of our language. Dummett does not assume the correctness of any one logical system but shows how the choice between different logics arises at the level of the theory of meaning and depends upon the choice of one or another general form of meaning-theory. In order to determine the correct shape for a meaning-theory, we must attain a clear conception of what a meaning-theory can be expected to do. Such a conception, says Dummett, will form 'a base camp for an assault on the metaphysical peaks: I have no greater ambition in this book than to set up a base camp' ' (Harvard University Press Web site).
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 470 pp. ; 24 cm. Contents; 1. Truth -- 2. Presupposition -- 3. The structure of appearance -- 4. Nominalism --… 5. Constructionalism -- 6. George Boole -- 7. Frege on functions -- 8. Frege's philosophy -- 9. Frege's distinction between sense and reference -- 10. Realism -- 11. Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics -- 12. The philosophical significance of Gödel's theorem -- 13. Platonism -- 14. The philosophical basis of intuitionistic logic -- 15. Wang's paradox -- 16. Is logic empirical? -- 17. The justification of deduction -- 18. Can an effect precede its cause? -- 19. Bringing about the past -- 20. A defence of McTaggart's proof of the unreality of time -- 21. The reality of the past -- 22. The significance of Quine's indeterminacy thesis -- 23. The social character of meaning -- 24. Oxford philosophy -- 25. Can analytical philosophy be systematic, and ought it to be? Subjects; Frege, Gottlob 1848-1925. Addresses. Philosophy, Modern 20th century. Logic. 3 Kg.
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 470 pp. ; 24 cm. Contents; 1. Truth -- 2. Presupposition -- 3. The structure of appearance -- 4. Nominalism --… 5. Constructionalism -- 6. George Boole -- 7. Frege on functions -- 8. Frege's philosophy -- 9. Frege's distinction between sense and reference -- 10. Realism -- 11. Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics -- 12. The philosophical significance of Gödel's theorem -- 13. Platonism -- 14. The philosophical basis of intuitionistic logic -- 15. Wang's paradox -- 16. Is logic empirical? -- 17. The justification of deduction -- 18. Can an effect precede its cause? -- 19. Bringing about the past -- 20. A defence of McTaggart's proof of the unreality of time -- 21. The reality of the past -- 22. The significance of Quine's indeterminacy thesis -- 23. The social character of meaning -- 24. Oxford philosophy -- 25. Can analytical philosophy be systematic, and ought it to be? Subjects; Frege, Gottlob 1848-1925. Addresses. Philosophy, Modern 20th century. Logic. 1 Kg.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. xi, 199 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. xx, 482 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket.
Published by Econometric Society, 1961., 1961
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Contact seller4-star sellerSoft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Entire issue offered. Original wrappers. Very Good+. 'I was intrigued by a paper by Michael Dummett and Robin Farquharson published in Econometrica in 1961. I was intrigued for three reasons. Firstly, I had never heard of the authors. Secondly, in the first pages of the paper,… what would become, more than ten years later, one of the most famous results of the social choice literature, viz. the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem, was conjectured in passing. Thirdly, the used proof technique was 'different' ' (Maurice Salles, 'Michael Dummett on Social Choice and Voting', Centre for Research in Economics and Management, Public Economics and Social Choice series working paper 16; Salles adds in footnote 1, 'The originality of the proof technique is reminiscent of the proof used to show, given an acyclic binary relation over a finite set of elements, the existence of maximal elements in this finite set'). 'Michael Dummett is famous among social science theorists for his joint paper with Robin Farquharson published in Econometrica in 1961. . 'I was first interested in the theory of voting by Robin Farquharson who was a very brilliant young man and had become interested in the theory of voting while he was still an undergraduate. I knew him well, and then we wrote a paper together and that was my first contribution to the subject, in print anyway. John Hicks who, as professor, was a Fellow of All Souls at the same time as I was, congratulated me on having a paper published in Econometrica. Well then as you know Robin Farquharson fell victim to this awful mental illness and couldn't really do any more creative work. . [There was] this dramatic episode when he entered the prize fellowship examination at All Souls. He quite certainly would have been elected but for the insane telephone conversation he had with the Warden on the eve of the election meeting -- the first manifestation of the mental illness from which he suffered for the rest of his life. . Robin Farquharson said we should send it to Econometrica, so I sent it to Econometrica. . I can't remember who actually wrote the main body of the text. I mean, we wrote it together, but the machinery, the technical notions and technical vocabulary, that all came from him' ('An interview with Michael Dummett: from analytical philosophy to voting analysis and beyond', by Rudolf Fara and Maurice Salles, on the LSE Web site).
