Dummett: Philosophy of LanguageISBN: 978-0-7456-2295-8
Paperback
248 pages
October 2001, Polity
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'For the student, getting to grips with Michael Dummett's
philosophy can be a formidable task. For Dummett's theses are deep
and challenging, and his arguments for them are subtle and complex.
Karen Green is to be thanked and commended for this lucid and
accessible account of the main features of Dummett's system of
thought. She explains how Dummett has developed theses from Frege
and Wittgenstein, about objectivity, normativity, systematicity,
publicity, and the dependence of thought on language. She traces
also significant points of contact and contention with Husserl,
Brouwer, Quine and Davidson. She explains the anti-realist
misgiving that truth cannot be bivalent for a language in which
meaning derives from use, and does much to prevent the frequent
confusion of anti-realism with subjective idealism or
phenomenalism. All in all, this is a remarkable exposition and
development of the views of one of the most important philosophers
of our age.' Professor Neil Tennant, The Ohio State
University
"Overall, this book demonstrates Green's remarkable command of the whole of Dummett's writings...Green's discussion of thhese issues offer a well argued and remarkable cohesive perspective on the great breadth of Dummett's work." David Kilfoyle, Philosophy in Review