The Logical Basis of Metaphysics

The Logical Basis of Metaphysics
Title The Logical Basis of Metaphysics PDF eBook
Author Michael Dummett
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 376
Release 1991
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780674537866

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The Logical Basis of Metaphysics

The Logical Basis of Metaphysics
Title The Logical Basis of Metaphysics PDF eBook
Author Michael Dummett
Publisher
Pages 384
Release 1991
Genre Philosophy
ISBN

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Michael Dummett's new book is the greatly expanded and recently revised version of his distinguished William James Lectures, delivered in 1976. Dummett regards the construction of a satisfactory theory of meaning as the most pressing task of contemporary analytical philosophy. He believes that the successful completion of this difficult assignment will lead to a resolution of problems before which philosophy has been stalled, in some instances for centuries. These problems turn on the correctness or incorrectness of a realistic view of one or another realm--the physical world, the mind, the past, mathematical reality, and so forth. Rejection of realism amounts to adoption of a variant semantics, and often of a variant logic, for the statements in a certain sector of our language. Dummett does not assume the correctness of any one logical system but shows how the choice between different logics arises at the level of the theory of meaning and depends upon the choice of one or another general form of meaning-theory. In order to determine the correct shape for a meaning-theory, we must attain a clear conception of what a meaning-theory can be expected to do. Such a conception, says Dummett, will form "a base camp for an assault on the metaphysical peaks: I have no greater ambition in this book than to set up a base camp."

The Logical Basis of Metaphysics

The Logical Basis of Metaphysics
Title The Logical Basis of Metaphysics PDF eBook
Author Michael Dummett
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
Pages 355
Release 1991
Genre Logic
ISBN 9780715623619

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Michael Dummett's new book is the greatly expanded and recently revised version of his distinguished William James Lectures, delivered in 1976. Dummett regards the construction of a satisfactory theory of meaning as the most pressing task of contemporary analytical philosophy. He believes that the successful completion of this difficult assignment will lead to a resolution of problems before which philosophy has been stalled, in some instances for centuries. These problems turn on the correctness or incorrectness of a realistic view of one or another realm--the physical world, the mind, the past, mathematical reality, and so forth. Rejection of realism amounts to adoption of a variant semantics, and often of a variant logic, for the statements in a certain sector of our language. Dummett does not assume the correctness of any one logical system but shows how the choice between different logics arises at the level of the theory of meaning and depends upon the choice of one or another general form of meaning-theory. In order to determine the correct shape for a meaning-theory, we must attain a clear conception of what a meaning-theory can be expected to do. Such a conception, says Dummett, will form a base camp for an assault on the metaphysical peaks: I have no greater ambition in this book than to set up a base camp.

Truth and Other Enigmas

Truth and Other Enigmas
Title Truth and Other Enigmas PDF eBook
Author Michael Dummett
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 532
Release 1978
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780674910768

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A collection of all but two of the author's philosophical essays and lectures originally published or presented before August 1976.

Modal Logic as Metaphysics

Modal Logic as Metaphysics
Title Modal Logic as Metaphysics PDF eBook
Author Timothy Williamson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 481
Release 2013-03-28
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 019955207X

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Timothy Williamson gives an original and provocative treatment of deep metaphysical questions about existence, contingency, and change, using the latest resources of quantified modal logic. Contrary to the widespread assumption that logic and metaphysics are disjoint, he argues that modal logic provides a structural core for metaphysics.

The Metaphysics of Logic

The Metaphysics of Logic
Title The Metaphysics of Logic PDF eBook
Author Penelope Rush
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 279
Release 2014-10-16
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 1107039649

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This wide-ranging collection of essays explores the nature of logic and the key issues and debates in the metaphysics of logic.

The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic

The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic
Title The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic PDF eBook
Author Martin Heidegger
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 256
Release 1984-07-22
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780253207647

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Offering a full-scale study of the theory of reality hidden beneath modern logic, The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic, a lecture course given in 1928, illuminates the transitional phase in Heidegger's thought from the existential analysis of Being and Time to the overcoming of metaphysics in his later philosophy. In a searching exposition of the metaphysical problems underpinning Leibniz's theory of logical judgment, Heidegger establishes that a given theory of logic is rooted in a certain conception of Being. He explores the significance of Western logic as a system-building technical tool and as a cultural phenomenon that is centuries old.