P. A. Schilpp's 'Library of Living Philosophers' is the series
which introduced to the philosophical community the format of a
volume of essays on the work of a distinguished philosopher,
combined with replies to the essays by the philosopher targeted.
The format proved attracti ve to a discipline which has always
placed a high premium on debate. But the Schilpp series has shown
itself unenterprising in its choice of subjects, concentrating on
end-of-year reports on philosophers who are of undoubted
distinction, but whose contribution to the subject can be regarded
as rather definitely over. Which leaves a gap, which the present
series is designed to fill, for volumes of a similar format aiming
at assessment of philosophers who have distinguished themselves
already by making a substan tial impact on their discipline, but
whose further work too is awaited with eager anticipation. Michael
Dummett is an ideal subject for a series with this goal of mid term
assessment. His writings to date have permanently altered
philosophy's conception of what is at issue between realism and
idealism (and its paler cousin, anti-realism); and this has been
achieved by way of a supplementary clarification of a host of
issues in the philosophy of language and of mathematics, and of the
Frege/Wittgenstein historical tradition from which such issues are
typically approached in contemporary philosophy."
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