Dummett on Abstract Objects [electronic resource] /
Duke, George.author.
This historically-informed critical assessment of Dummett's account of abstract objects, examines in detail some of the Fregean presuppositions of Dummett's account whilst also engaging with phenomenological approaches and recent work on the problem of abstract entities.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Foreword; Introduction; 1 The Fregean Notion of an Object; 1.1 The 'modern' notion of an object; 1.2 The syntactic priority thesis; 2 Psychologism and Objectivity; 2.1 Frege's critique of Husserl's psychologism; 2.2 Objectivity and language; 3 The Context Principle; 3.1 Dummett's critique of Quine and Goodman's nominalism; 3.2 The philosophical significance of the context principle; 4 A Problem about Reference; 4.1 Frege on Bedeutung; 4.2 Dummett on reference; 5 The Concrete-Abstract Distinction; 5.1 David Lewis' four 'ways'
5.2 Dummett's functional criterion6 Tolerant Reductionism; 6.1 Neo-Fregeanism; 6.2 The Neo-Fregean critique of Dummett; 6.3 Tolerant reductionism; 7 Mathematical Objects; 7.1 The 'thin' reference of abstract singular terms; 7.2 Constructive logicism; 7.3 Husserl and the constitution of formal mathematical systems; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This historically-informed critical assessment of Dummett's account of abstract objects, examines in detail some of the Fregean presuppositions of Dummett's account whilst also engaging with phenomenological approaches and recent work on the problem of abstract entities.
Dummett, Michael, 1925-2011.
Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925.
Philosophy (General).
Linguistics
Analysis (Philosophy).
Logic.
Philosophy, modern.
History of Philosophy.
Philosophy of Language.
Analytic Philosophy.
Logic.
Modern Philosophy.