Michael Dummett is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers; this book covers his work in the closely related fields of metaphysics and the philosophy of language.

Readership: Philosophers concerned with meaning, truth, language, and logic.

Contents
1. What is a Theory of Meaning? (I)
2. What is a Theory of Meaning? (II)
3. What do I Know When I Know a Language?
4. What does the Appeal to Use do for the Theory of Meaning?
5. Language and Truth
6. Truth and Meaning *
7. Language and Communication
8. The Source of the Concept of Truth
9. Mood, Force, and Convention *
10. Frege and Husserl on Reference
11. Realism
12. Existence
13. Does Quantification Involve Identity?
14. Could there be Unicorns? +
15. Causal Loops
16. Common Sense and Physics
17. Testimony and Memory *
18. What is Mathematics About?
19. Wittgenstein on Necessity: Some Reflections
20. Realism and Anti-Realism *