Crispin Wright is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This volume is a collective exploration of the major themes of his work in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mathematics. It comprises specially written chapters by a group of internationally renowned thinkers, as well as four substantial responses from Wright. In these thematically organized replies, Wright summarizes his life's work and responds to the contributory essays collected in this book. In bringing together such scholarship, the present volume testifies to both the enormous interest in Wright's thought and the continued relevance of Wright's seminal contributions in analytic philosophy for present-day debates;
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Miller (Univ. of Otago) has assembled 10 commissioned papers by well-chosen specialists who are influential writers in their respective fields. The special focus of this book is, however, Wright's substantive and careful, comprehensive replies to each of the four major themes of his critics: Gottlob Frege's philosophy and logicism, vagueness and language, logical revisionism, and the metaphysics of possibility. With respect to each of these themes, Wright provides an extensive overview of the topic itself prior to his specific responses to the contributors' various critical standpoints. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. * L. C. Archie, CHOICE *
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Part I Frege and Neo-Logicism |
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1 Generality And Objectivity In Frege's Foundations Of Arithmetic |
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2 A Logic For Frege's Theorem |
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3 Logicism And Logical Consequence |
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4 Logicism And Second-Order Logic |
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5 Solving The Caesar Problem---With Metaphysics |
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6 Vagueness And Intuitionistic Logic |
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135 | (19) |
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7 Quandary And Intuitionism: Crispin Wright On Vagueness |
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154 | (23) |
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Part III Logical Revisionism |
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9 Inferentialism, Logicism, Harmony, And A Counterpoint |
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Part IV Metaphysical Possibility |
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Replies to Part I Frege and Logicism |
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Replies to Demopoulos, Rosen and Yablo, Edwards, Boolos, and Heck |
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Replies to Part II Intuitionism and the Sorites |
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354 | (30) |
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Replies to Rumfitt and Schiffer |
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Replies to Part III Logical Revisionism |
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Replies to Tennant and Shieh |
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Reply to Part IV The Epistemology of Metaphysical Possibility |
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| Index Nominum |
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Alexander Miller took his undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He then did his graduate work in philosophy at the universities of St. Andrews and Michigan. Miller is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago. Prior to this, he taught at Birmingham, Nottingham, Cardiff, and Macquarie.
Crispin Wright specializes in the philosophies of language and mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology. He is Global Professor of Philosophy at New York University, Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling, and Regius Professor of Logic Emeritus at the University of Aberdeen. He has taught at Columbia, Michigan, Princeton, St. Andrews (where he was the first Wardlaw University Professor), Arché, and Aberdeen (where he held the Regius Chair of Logic and was Director of the Northern Institute of Philosophy).
