Abstract

This book contains fifteen essays, most of them published before, which were too late for inclusion in Dummett's Truth and Other Enigmas. As the author explains, his newly awakened interest in historical questions accounts for the fact that most of the essays bear on Frege's intellectual relations to other philosophers. In particular, there is a most interesting essay, "Frege's Kernsaetze zur Logik," which compares one of Frege's unpublished manuscripts with the Introduction to Lotze's Logik. Quite a few pages in the book defend Dummett's interpretation of Frege against criticisms by Sluga, Baker and Hacker, Shanker, and Bell. In addition, Dummett discusses views of Gareth Evans, John Perry, and others.