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In this companion volume to Frege: Philosophy of Language, Michael Dummett responds to some of the critics of that first book and also examines some major attempts at interpreting Frege. In doing all this, he, as in the first book, takes up and discusses various hotly debated issues in contemporary philosophy of logic, semantics and epistemology. There may be disagreement as to how successful he is in throwing new light on these issues, but Dummett, to my mind, clearly succeeds in establishing his credentials as the doyen of Frege scholars. He demonstrates superb mastery over Frege texts and skill in handling and interpreting them. Furthermore, in this book he achieves greater focus on the issues of Frege exegesis, something readers of the first book must have missed. This focus is mainly due to the context. Dummett is criticising other interpretations, so he quickly settles down to the texts and interpretive issues, although the tendency — agonisingly marked in the first book — to stray away from the issue under consideration is not altogether absent here too.
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Originally appeared in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 15 No. 1, January 1984.
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Michael Dummett, The Interpretation of Frege’s Philosophy, London, Duckworth, 1981.
M. Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe, herausg. F.-W. von Herrman, Bd. 1, Frühe Schriften. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1978, p. 20.
Cp. T. Burge, “Sinning against Frege,” Philosophical Review, LXXXVII, 1979, pp. 398–432.
J.N. Mohanty, “Husserl and Frege: A New Look at their Relationship,” Research in Husserl’s Logical Investigations, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1977.
See A. Gurwitsch, “The Kantian and Husserlian Conceptions of Consciousness,” in: Studies in Phenomenology and Psychology, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1966, pp. 148–174.
For the structure of the noema,see Husserl, Ideas 1,Chapters 9, 10 and 11.
I suggest this in my book Husserl and Frege (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982).
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Mohanty, J.N. (1999). Dummett, Frege, and Phenomenology. In: Logic, Truth and the Modalities. Synthese Library, vol 278. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2113-4_6
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