ISBN : 9780199278343
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;
Part I: Frege and Neo-Logicism
1 William Demopoulos: Generality and Objectivity in Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic
2 Richard Kimberly Heck: The Logic of Frege's Theorem
3 Jim Edwards: Logicism and Logical Consequence
4 George Boolos: Logicism and Second Order Logic
4a Richard Kimberly Heck: Postscript
5 Gideon Rosen and Stephen Yablo: Solving the Caesar Problem--with Metaphysics
Part II: Vagueness
6 Ian Rumfitt: Vagueness and Intuitionistic Logic
7 Stephen Schiffer: Quandary and Intuitionism: Crispin Wright on Vagueness
Part III: Logic and Modality
8 Sanford Shieh: Wright and Revisionism
9 Neil Tennant: Inferentialism, Logicism, Harmony, and a Counterpoint
Part IV: Metaphysical Possibility
10 Bob Hale: CCCP
Replies by Crispin Wright
Foreword
Replies to Part I: Frege and Logicism
Replies to Part II: Intuitionism and the Sorites
Replies to Part III: Logical Revisionism
Replies to Part IV: The Epistemology of Metaphysical Possibility