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Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England. Dummett on Analytical Philosophy Edited by Bernhard Weiss University of Cape Town, South Africa Editorial matter, introduction and selection © Bernhard Weiss 2015 Chapters © Individual authors 2015 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. 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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dummett on analytical philosophy / [edited by] Bernhard Weiss, University of Cape Town, South Africa. pages cm. — (Philosophers in depth) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978–1–137–40069–7 1. Dummett, Michael, 1925–2011. 2. Analysis (Philosophy) 3. Metaphysics. 4. Frege, Gottlob, 1848–1925. I. Weiss, Bernhard, editor. B1626.D854D86 2015 192—dc23 2014049956 In memory of Professor Sir Michael Dummett Contents Acknowledgements v iii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Bernhard Weiss 1 Dummett on the Logical Basis of Metaphysics 9 A.W. Moore 2 Seeking the Logical Basis of Metaphysics 3 8 Cora Diamond 3 How Rare Is Chairman Mao? Dummett, Frege and the Austere Conception of Nonsense 8 4 Sanford Shieh 4 Making Knowledge of Meaning Explicit 1 22 Bernhard Weiss 5 Frege on That-Clauses 135 Wolfgang Künne 6 Dummett on Frege on Functions 174 Karen Green 7 Meaning and Dummett’s Austrians 195 Peter Simons 8 Dummett, the Frege–Husserl Exchange and the Analytical Tradition 211 George Duke Index 2 33 vii Acknowledgements I’d like to record my thanks to the following: my contributors for accepting my invitation and for abiding by our deadline; the series editor, Constantine Sandis, for the initial suggestion and invitation, and his work on the final draft; an anonymous reviewer for Palgrave Macmillan for comments on both the proposal and the final draft; and both Brendan George and Esmé Chapman at Palgrave Macmillan for overseeing the project. I am grateful to Cambridge University Press for permission to include A.W. Moore’s chapter which was previously published as ‘Dummett: The Logical Basis of Metaphysics’, pp. 345–68 in his T he Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things , 2012, Cambridge University Press. viii Notes on Contributors Cora D iamond , Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia, has written extensively on the history of analytical philosophy and on Frege and Wittgenstein. She also has interests in other areas of philosophy including ethics. She is widely known as one of the main inspirations for the new Wittgensteinian reading of Wittgenstein’s corpus. She is the author of The Realistic Spirit (1995). George D uke , Senior Lecturer, Deakin University, Australia, has written a number of papers on Dummett’s philosophy and in the history of philosophy. He is the author of Dummett on Abstract Objects (2012). Karen Green , Professor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, Australia, combines her interest in Dummett’s philosophy with an interest in feminist philosophy and has written widely on Christine de Pizan. She is the author of Dummett: Philosophy of Language (2001) and co-author with Jacqueline Broad of A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe 1400–1700 (2009). Wolfgang Künne , Professor of Philosophy, University of Hamburg, Germany, has written widely in the philosophy of language, ontology, epistemology and on the philosophies of Frege and Brentano. He is the author of, among other books, Conceptions of Truth (2003). A.W. Moore , Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, is inter- ested in the philosophies of logic, language and mathematics and in Kant and Wittgenstein. He is the author of T he Infinite (1990), P oints of View (1997), N oble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant’s Moral and Religious Philosophy (2003) and T he Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things (2012). Sanford Shieh , Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University, US, has written widely on the philosophy of Dummett and Frege, and in the areas of the philosophies of logic, language and mathematics and in the history of analytical philosophy. Peter Simons , Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, has written extensively on metaphysics; the philosophies of mathematics and logic; and the history of analytical philosophy. He is the ix