Thought and Reality

Sir Michael Dummett sets out his views about some of the deepest questions in philosophy. The fundamental question of metaphysics is: what does reality consist of? Dummett puts forward his controversial view of reality as indeterminate: there may be no fact of the matter about whether an object does or does not have a given property.

Dummett's Thought and Reality... is characteristically brilliant.

Auteur

Sir Michael Dummett is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow, New College and All Souls College, Oxford.

Contenu

Preface; 1. Facts and Propositions; 2. Semantics and Metaphysics; 3. Truth and Meaning; 4. Truth-Conditional Semantics; 5. Justificationist Theories of Meaning; 6. Tense and Time; 7. Reality As It Is In Itself; 8. God and the World