Grice in "The Library of Living Philosophers"

Speranza

-- cited.

This is Dummett.

The Philosophy of Michael Dummett
(Volume XXXI, 2007)

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Sir Michael Dummett (he was knighted in 1991) is one of the most influential of living philosophers.

[And dead philosophers, for the record].

His own contributions to philosophy have been bound up with his interpretations of the earlier philosophers Frege and Wittgenstein.

Dummett's 1973 book on Frege helped to make Frege's thought central to modern philosophy.

Dummett has made many contributions to philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics.

His most celebrated achievement is his new way of looking at distinction between realism and anti-realism.

In addition to philosophy, Dummett has written on immigration law, English usage, Roman Catholic doctrine, and the history of the tarot.

Table of Contents

Michael A. E. Dummett:

"Intellectual Autobiography" -- being an autobiography of Dummett's intellect. Main points: London childhood, Winchester, and 'stuck' in Oxford (:)).

Michael Dummett

(Replies follow essays)

1. Brian McGuinness:

"Coming to Terms with Wittgenstein". (McGuinness born England).


2. Jan Dejnozka:

"Dummett's Backward Road to Frege and to Intuitionism"

---- for "Jan Dejnozka" on Grice see the annals of the Grice Club -- Dejnozka on Grice on 'eating': "The most complete account of eating I ever came across."

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3. James W. Allard:

"Realism, Anti-realism, and Absolute Idealism"


4. Hilary Putnam:

"Between Scylla and Charybdis: Does Dummett Have a Way Through?"

---- Putnam wrote the blurb for Grice, "Studies in the way of words", Harvard.

5.

Ernie LePore and Kirk Ludwig:

"The Reality of Language: On the Davidson/Dummett Exchange"

--- There is a Youtube that someone should transcribe, "Davidson and Dummett get a laugh".

6. Peter Simons:

"What Numbers Really Are"

7. Anat Matar:

"Radically Different: On Dummett's Metaphilosophy"

8. John Campbell:

"If Truth is Dethroned, What Role is Left for It?"

9. Wolfgang Künne:

"Two Principles Concerning Truth"

10.
John McDowell:

"Dummett on Truth Conditions and Meaning"
---- McDowell was born in the North of England, and he takes Grice seriously. Vide his contribution to Strawson's festschrift, "Philosophical Subjects."

11. Akeel Bilgrami:

"Pursuing an Analogy"

Bilgrami was educated at Balliol, and has written on Grice in his "Meaning and belief".


12. Crispin Wright:

"Wang's Paradox"

13. Dag Prawitz:

"Pragmatist and Verificationist Theories of Meaning"

14. Eva Picardi:

"On Sense, Tone, and Accompanying Thoughts"

--- she has written a brief memorial to Dummett in the New York Times, online.
---- [FREGE, alla Grice].

15. Richard G. Heck, Jr.:

"Use and Meaning"

--- vide Grice's antislogan, "Meaning is NOT use" (WoW:i).

16.
Carlo Penco:

"Idiolect and Context"
--- vide Grice on idiosyncratic procedures, in WoW:vi. Uttering x meaning y.


17.

Bernhard Weiss:
"Molecularity and Revisionism"

18.
Christian Thiel:
"The Operation Called Abstraction"

19. Ian Rumfitt:
"Asserting and Excluding: Steps Towards an Anti-Realist Account of Classical Consequence"

20.

Marco Santambrogio:
"Belief and Deductive Inference"

21. Pascal Engel:
"Dummett, Achilles, and the Tortoise"

22. Peter M. Sullivan:
"Dummett's Case for Constructivist Logicism"

23. Maurice Salles:
"Michael Dummett on Social Choice and Voting"
-- vide the interview by Salles and Fara, elsewhere.

24. Kwame Anthony Appiah:
"Immigrants and Refugees: Individualism and the Moral Status of Strangers"

25. [Agnes Margaret] Ann [Chesney] Dummett:
"Work against Racism"

26.
Andrew Beards:
"Dummett: Philosophy and Religion"

27. Thierry DePaulis:
"The First Golden Age of the Tarot in France"

"Bibliography of the Writings of Michael Dummett."

-- the funeral was at St. Alosyus, Oxford.