George Duke, Dummett on Abstract Objects

Authors

  • Bob Hale University of Sheffield

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4148/jhap.v2i2.1948

Abstract

Review of G. Duke: Dummett on Abstract Objects

 

References

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B. Hale and C. Wright. The Reason's Proper Study: Essays towards a Neo-Fregean Philosophy of Mathematics. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001.

B. Hale and C. Wright. The Metaontology of Abstraction. In D. Chalmers, D. Manley & R. Wasserman, editors, Metametaphysics: New essays on the Foundations of Ontology. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 178–213, 2009.

C. Wright. Frege’s Conception of Numbers as Objects. Scots Philosophical Monographs. Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 1983.

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Published

2013-09-05

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2013): Book-Symposium: What is Analytic Philosophy / Reviews of Work on Bolzano and Dummett

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Reviews and Critical Notices/Studies

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