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    Modality.Bob Hale - 1997 - In Bob Hale, Crispin Wright & Alexander Miller (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Language. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 805–842.
    Dummett's formulation presupposes a realistic attitude towards modality. And as also remarked, realism in this sense has not gone unchallenged. This chapter discusses a different form the realism it opposes may assume which entails, but goes appreciably beyond, the comparatively modest variety just sketched, and which has been the focus of much recent discussion: realism about possible worlds. It begins by drawing some distinctions among different notions of necessity and possibility. Probably the single most important distinction to be (...)
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  2. Strict finitism.Crispin Wright - 1982 - Synthese 51 (2):203 - 282.
    Dummett's objections to the coherence of the strict finitist philosophy of mathematics are thus, at the present time at least, ill-taken. We have so far no definitive treatment of Sorites paradoxes; so no conclusive ground for dismissing Dummett's response — the response of simply writing off a large class of familiar, confidently handled expressions as semantically incoherent. I believe that cannot be the right response, if only because it threatens to open an unacceptable gulf between the insight into (...)
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    Professor Matilal’s Nåvya-Naive Realism vis-a-vis Dummett-Putnam-Mimamsa Anti-Realisms.Purushottama Bilimoria - 1998 - The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 24:14-20.
    The vexed issue of the precise connection between words and things has been a major preoccupation over the centuries summoning the resources of metaphysics, philosophy of language, linguistics, ontology and increasingly semiological analysis. Philosophy in India produced a number of different and often conflicting solutions, only to be rivalled by an equally bewildering variety witnessed in the ancient and modern West. I want to bring to the foreground the late Professor Bimal K. Matilal’s development of Nyaya-Vaisesika realist approach to the (...)
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  4. Counterfactual reasoning in the bell-epr paradox.Malcolm R. Forster - 1986 - Philosophy of Science 53 (1):133-144.
    Skyrms's formulation of the argument against stochastic hidden variables in quantum mechanics using conditionals with chance consequences suffers from an ambiguity in its "conservation" assumption. The strong version, which Skyrms needs, packs in a "no-rapport" assumption in addition to the weaker statement of the "experimental facts." On the positive side, I argue that Skyrms's proof has two unnoted virtues (not shared by previous proofs): (1) it shows that certain difficulties that arise for deterministic hidden variable theories that exploit a (...)
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  5. Reply to `Dummett's dig', by Baker and Hacker.Michael Dummett - 1988 - Philosophical Quarterly 38 (150):87-103.
  6. Proof-theoretic semantics for a natural language fragment.Nissim Francez & Roy Dyckhoff - 2010 - Linguistics and Philosophy 33 (6):447-477.
    The paper presents a proof-theoretic semantics (PTS) for a fragment of natural language, providing an alternative to the traditional model-theoretic (Montagovian) semantics (MTS), whereby meanings are truth-condition (in arbitrary models). Instead, meanings are taken as derivability-conditions in a dedicated natural-deduction (ND) proof-system. This semantics is effective (algorithmically decidable), adhering to the meaning as use paradigm, not suffering from several of the criticisms formulated by philosophers of language against MTS as a theory of meaning. In particular, Dummett’s manifestation argument does not (...)
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    Logical Revisionism: Logical Rules vs. Structural Rules.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
    As far as logic is concerned, the conclusion of Michael Dummett's manifestability argument is that intuitionistic logic, as first developed by Heyting, satisfies the semantic requirements of antirealism. The argument may be roughly sketched as follows: since we cannot manifest a grasp of possibly justification-transcendent truth conditions, we must countenance conditions which are such that, at least in principle and by the very nature of the case, we are able to recognize that they are satisfied whenever they are. Intuitionistic (...)
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  8. The seas of language.Michael Dummett - 1993 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Michael Dummett is a leading contemporary philosopher whose work on the logic and metaphysics of language has had a lasting influence on how these subjects are conceived and discussed. This volume contains some of the most provocative and widely discussed essays published in the last fifteen years, together with a number of unpublished or inaccessible writings. Essays included are: "What is a Theory of Meaning?," "What do I Know When I Know a Language?," "What Does the Appeal to Use Do (...)
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  9. Truth and the Past.Michael Dummett - 2003 - Cambridge University Press.
    Michael Dummett's three John Dewey Lectures--"The Concept of Truth," "Statements About the Past," and "The Metaphysics of Time"--were delivered at Columbia University in the spring of 2002. Revised and expanded, the lectures are presented here along with two new essays by Dummett, "Truth: Deniers and Defenders" and "The Indispensability of the Concept of Truth." In _Truth and the Past,_ Dummett clarifies his current positions on the metaphysical issue of realism and the philosophy of language. He is best known as (...)
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  10. Frege.Michael Dummett - 1981 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    In this work Dummett discusses, section by section, Frege's masterpiece The Foundations of Arithmetic and Frege's treatment of real numbers in the second volume ...
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  11. Truth and other enigmas.Michael Dummett - 1978 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    A collection of all but two of the author's philosophical essays and lectures originally published or presented before August 1976.
  12. Frege and Other Philosophers.Michael Dummett - 1991 - Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    The ideas of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege lie at the root of the analytic movement in philosophy; Michael Dummett is his leading modern critical interpreter and one of today's most eminent philosophers. This volume collects together fifteen of Dummett's classic essays on Frege and related subjects.
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  13. Realism: Metaphysical, Scientific, and Semantic.Panu Raatikainen - 2014 - In Kenneth R. Westphal (ed.), Realism, Science, and Pragmatism. New York: Routledge. pp. 139-158.
    Three influential forms of realism are distinguished and interrelated: realism about the external world, construed as a metaphysical doctrine; scientific realism about non-observable entities postulated in science; and semantic realism as defined by Dummett. Metaphysical realism about everyday physical objects is contrasted with idealism and phenomenalism, and several potent arguments against these latter views are reviewed. -/- Three forms of scientific realism are then distinguished: (i) scientific theories and their existence postulates should be taken literally; (ii) the existence of unobservable (...)
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  14. Elements of Intuitionism.Michael Dummett - 1977 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Roberto Minio.
    This is a long-awaited new edition of one of the best known Oxford Logic Guides. The book gives an introduction to intuitionistic mathematics, leading the reader gently through the fundamental mathematical and philosophical concepts. The treatment of various topics, for example Brouwer's proof of the Bar Theorem, valuation systems, and the completeness of intuitionistic first-order logic, have been completely revised.
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  15. Anti-Realism in the Philosophy of Mind.Carolyn G. Hartz - 1985 - Dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    My purpose is to examine the realism/anti-realism issue in the philosophy of mind and to lay the foundation for its resolution. To that end I formulate the issue in terms of Dummett's semantic criterion of bivalence, and the question becomes one of whether or not statements about the mind are determinately either true or false. I shall signify this formulation by capitalizing: Realism or anti-Realism. One of the virtues of this approach is that it is a clear and (...)
     
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    The Nature and Future of Philosophy.Michael Dummett - 2010 - Cambridge University Press.
    Philosophy is a discipline that makes no observations, conducts no experiments, and needs no input from experience. It is an armchair subject, requiring only thought. Yet that thought can advance knowledge in unexpected directions, not only through the discovery of new facts but also through the enhancement of what we already know. Philosophy can clarify our vision of the world and provide exciting ways to interpret it. Of course, philosophy's unified purpose hasn't kept the discipline from splintering into warring camps. (...)
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  17. (1 other version)The Interpretation of Fregeʼs Philosophy.Michael Dummett - 1980 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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    Teoria del significato e filosofia della logica.Cesare Cozzo - 1994 - CLUEB.
    PART I The first chapter contains some arguments in favour of four general requirements on a theory of meaning which Michael Dummett has formulated: connection between meaning and understanding, distinction between sense and force, compositionality, and manifestability. The second chapter contains a condensed account of the theory of meaning centered on bivalent truth-conditions, and a detailed analysis of Dummett's argument against such a theory and against classical logic. The third chapter is a description of Dummett's theory of meaning (...)
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  19. What is at issue between epistemic and traditional accounts of truth?John Fox - 2008 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (3):407 – 420.
    I will discuss those epistemic accounts of truth that say, roughly and at least, that the truth is what all ideally rational people, with maximum evidence, would in the long run come to believe. They have been defended on the grounds that they can solve sceptical problems that traditional accounts cannot surmount, and that they explain the value of truth in ways that traditional (and particularly, minimal) accounts cannot; they have been attacked on the grounds that they collapse into idealism. (...)
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    Realism and grammar.Donald P. Screen - 1984 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (4):523-534.
    Putnam says that "In one way of conceiving it, realism is an empirical theory." In the present work it is maintained that, in another way of conceiving it, realism is a grammatical thesis. That is, many of the principles taken to be definitive of realism, e.g., "Truth is objective," "Truth is mind-independent," Dummett's "a thought can be true only if there is something in virtue of which it is true," are what Wittgenstein would have called "grammatical remarks." They simply (...)
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  21. Moral Properties: Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals.James Carl Klagge - 1983 - Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles
    I formulate and defend a realist theory of the truth of moral judgements according to which moral properties are synthetically but necessarily determined by natural properties of people, actions, or states of affairs. This view can be found in Moore's later ethical writings. The view reconciles two apparently conflicting intuitions: Moral properties supervene upon natural properties, but judgements about moral properties are generally not entailed by any judgements about natural properties. The view is realist in the sense that moral judgements (...)
     
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    Meaning and metaphysics in the moral realism debate.Douglas Butler - 1988 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 26 (1):9-27.
    Semantic formulations of various moral realisms and nonrealisms are to be categorized not only by their differing metaphysical commitments, e.g., realism's rejection of relativism, dummett's antirealism and nihilism, but also by certain of their linguistic commitments. relevant linguistic commitments involve giving priority in the explanation of moral language to, variously, reference, truth conditions, inferential role or illocutionary force. the latter two are illustrated, respectively, by a social pragmatism resembling rorty's and a noncognitivism such as hare's.
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    Sense and reference from a constructivist standpoint.Michael Dummett - 2021 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 27 (4):485-500.
    Editorial NoteThis paper was read by Michael Dummett at Leiden University on September 26, 1992 at the invitation by Göran Sundholm to address the topic mentioned in the title. Dummett’s lecture was part of a workshop, Meaning Theory and Intuitionism, with 12 invited speakers over three days. After the workshop, Dummett gave a copy of the manuscript to Sundholm together with permission to publish it. At the time, nothing came of the publication plans, nor did Dummett publish it in any (...)
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  24. Wang's paradox.Michael Dummett - 1975 - Synthese 30 (3-4):201--32.
  25. (1 other version)The Interpretation of Frege's Philosophy.Michael Dummett - 1981 - Erkenntnis 20 (2):243-251.
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  26. (2 other versions)Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics.Michael Dummett - 1959 - Philosophical Review 68 (3):324-348.
  27. (1 other version)A Defense of McTaggart’s Proof of the Unreality of Time.Michael Dummett - 1960 - Philosophical Review 69 (4):497-504.
  28. „What is a Theory of Meaning?(I)” in: Guttenplan, S.Michael Dummett - 1975 - In Samuel D. Guttenplan (ed.), Mind and language. Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon Press.
     
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  29. Is time a continuum of instants.Michael Dummett - 2000 - Philosophy 75 (4):497-515.
    Our model of time is the classical continuum of real numbers, and our model of other measurable quantities that change over time is that of functions defined on real numbers with real numbers as values. This model is not derived from reality or from our experience of it, but imposed on reality; and the fit is very imperfect. In classical mathematics, the value of a function for any real number as argument is independent of its value for any other argument: (...)
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  30. Modal Logics Between S 4 and S 5.M. A. E. Dummett & E. J. Lemmon - 1959 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 5 (14-24):250-264.
  31. Victor's error.Michael Dummett - 2001 - Analysis 61 (1):1–2.
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  32. (1 other version)The Philosophical Significance of Gödei's Theorem.Michael Dummett - 1963 - Ratio (Misc.) 5 (2):140.
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  33. (1 other version)Realism and Anti-Realism.Michael Dummett - 1993 - In ¸ Itedummett:Sl. pp. 462--78.
    In this article the contemporary debate between realism and anti-realism in analytical philosophy is analyzed and discussed. It is claimed that the nature of the reference relation which holds between language and the world is central in this discussion which has both logical, semantical, and epistemological aspects. In a firstpart, A Tarski's (semantic) theory of truth is explained and it is shown how, amongst several theories of truth, Tarski's may be called a realist one. However, a Tarski-style semantics need not (...)
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    Montgomery.Michael Dummett - 2015 - Critical Philosophy of Race 3 (1):1-19.
    Sir Michael Dummett's essay “Montgomery,” written in 1956, is here published for the first time, with an introduction by Robert Bernasconi outlining how it came to be written and why it was not published at the time of its original completion.
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    Chairman's Address: Basic Law V.Michael Dummett - 19934 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94:243--251.
    Michael Dummett; Discussions: Chairman's Address: Basic Law V*, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 94, Issue 1, 1 June 1994, Pages 243–252, https:/.
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  36. Hume’s atomism about events: A response to Ulrich Meyer.Michael Dummett - 2005 - Philosophy 80 (1):141-144.
    Ulrich Meyer's objections to Dummett's arguments on the time continuum fail because he takes Dummett to endorse Hume's atomistic doctrine that events are ‘loose and separate’, In fact, Dummett rejects this doctrine. He used it in his original article only to indicate that certain implications which are conceptually possible fom the point of view of the classical model of time are not actually conceptually possible.
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    Fitch's paradox of knowability.Michael Dummett - 2008 - In Joe Salerno (ed.), New Essays on the Knowability Paradox. Oxford, England and New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press.
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  38. The significance of Quine's indeterminacy thesis.Michael Dummett - 1974 - Synthese 27 (3-4):351 - 397.
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    (1 other version)Objectivity and reality in Lotze and Frege.Michael Dummett - 1982 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 25 (1):95 – 114.
    Frege held that logical objects are objective but not wirklich, and that psychologism follows from the mistake of believing whatever is not wirklich to be subjective. It has been suggested that Frege's use of the terms ?objective? and ?wirklich? is in line with that found in Lotze's Logic; from this it has been inferred that Frege's doctrines have been misinterpreted as being ontological in character, but that they really belong to epistemology. In fact, Lotze held that something may be the (...)
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  40. (1 other version)I. Frege as a Realist.Michael Dummett - 1976 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 19 (1-4):455-468.
    H. Sluga (Inquiry, Vol. 18 [1975], No. 4) has criticized me for representing Frege as a realist. He holds that, for Frege, abstract objects were not real: this rests on a mistranslation and a neglect of Frege's contextual principle. The latter has two aspects: as a thesis about sense, and as one about reference. It is only under the latter aspect that there is any tension between it and realism: Frege's later silence about the principle is due, not to his (...)
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  41. „What is a Theory of Meaning?(I)” in: Guttenplan, S.M. Dummett - 1975 - In Samuel D. Guttenplan (ed.), Mind and language. Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon Press.
     
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    (1 other version)Language and Communication.Michael Dummett - 1993 - In The seas of language. New York: Oxford University Press.
    There is a contest between the view that the primary function of language is that of an instrument of communication and the view that it is that of a vehicle of thought. But such a dilemma is misconceived. The true opposition is between language as representation and language as activity. The representation picture of language is misleading in so far as it assumes that the representative power can be isolated from other features of language and that it consists in the (...)
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    The Relative Priority of Thought and Language.Michael Dummett - 1991 - In Frege and Other Philosophers. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
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  44. The Justificationist’s Response to a Realist.Michael Dummett - 2005 - Mind 114 (455):671-688.
    Justificationism differs from realism about how linguistic meaning is given, and hence in its associated conception of truth, and in particular in rejecting bivalence. Empirical discourse differs from mathematical primarily in that an effective decision-procedure for an empirical statement may cease to be available at a later time. The contrast is not that empirical knowledge is derived from what is mind-dependent, namely perception, whereas mathematical knowledge is not so derived. Mathematical knowledge does not accrue simply because a proof exists: the (...)
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    Frege and Husserl on Reference.Michael Dummett - 1993 - In The seas of language. New York: Oxford University Press.
    David Bell argued in his book Husserl that Frege's notion of reference was realist, whereas Husserl's notion of reference in Logical Investigations was non‐realist. The suitable notion of reference should reconcile between extensional and intensional modes of speaking of the object. According to Husserl, intentional objects do not form an ontological category: to speak of them is to adopt the material mode of saying what, in the formal mode, relates to a singular term standing in an intensional context. Thus, Husserl's (...)
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    Frege and the Paradox of Analysis.Michael Dummett - 1991 - In Frege and Other Philosophers. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    This chapter is about Frege's understanding of the aim of philosophical analyses of familiar concepts, illustrated by his procedure in his Grunndlagen der Arithmetik and by Edmund Husserl's criticism of that book.
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    The Source of the Concept of Truth.Michael Dummett - 1993 - In The seas of language. New York: Oxford University Press.
    We should address not the issue of the nature of truth, but rather that of the way we come by the very concept of truth. As Hilbert's discussion of quantifiers shows, the concept of truth is borne out of a more basic concept of justifiability. Our mastery of the most primitive aspects of the use of language to transmit information does not require even an implicit grasp of the concept of truth, but can be fully described in terms of the (...)
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  48. Immigration.Sir Michael Dummett - 2004 - Res Publica 10 (2):115-122.
    It is not a fundamental human right to live wherever one would most like to be. We have to ask when a state should admit people not its citizens wishing to enter and settle within its territory. To exclude someone from entry to a country where he wishes to settle infringes his liberty. When anybody's liberty is infringed or curtailed the onus of proof lies upon those who claim a right to infringe or curtail it, other things being equal. This (...)
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    (1 other version)I. Frege's 'Kernsätze zur Logik'.Michael Dummett - 1981 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 24 (4):439-448.
    The short fragment of Frege's Nachlass which bears the above title, given to it by the editors, is in fact a sequence of connected comments by him on the Introduction to Lotze's Logik, or, more exactly, a response by him to that Introduction. It is thus very probably the earliest piece of writing from Frege's pen on the philosophy of logic surviving to us, and, when it is read in this light, the motivation for its author's puzzling selection of remarks (...)
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  50. Spinoza's formulation of the radical enlightenment's two foundational concepts: how much did he owe to the Dutch golden age political-theological context?Jonathan Israel - 2019 - In Jack Stetter & Charles Ramond (eds.), Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Moral and Political Philosophy. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
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