PHIL 2504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Michael Dummett, Metalanguage, Object Language
31 Mar 2018
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Main contributions in logic, philosophy of math, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and interpretation of frege. Was active in anti-racism advocacy and immigration rights. Pursued historical and cultural research as well as philosophical projects and political work. Responding to/debating with, among others, wittgenstein, kripke, davdison, and. For dummett, we need a theory of meaning to explain how language works: To grasp the meaning of an expression is to understand its role in the language: a complete theory of meaning for a language is, therefore, a complete theory of how the language functions as a language (429) According to dummett, that theory must accomplish two things: Explain the concepts expressible in our language. Explain the connection between concepts and words. But not all theories of meaning do both of these things . Different types of approaches to linguistic meaning. Translation manual approaches focus on identifying successful use of expressions in a different language (making connections between words and communication)
