Truth and the Past

By: Michael Dummett, Akeel Bilgrami (Foreword by)

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Michael Dummett's three John Dewey Lectures--"The Concept of Truth," "Statements About the Past," and "The Metaphysics of Time"--were delivered at Columbia University in the spring of 2002. Revised and expanded, the lectures are presented here along with two new essays by Dummett, "Truth: Deniers and Defenders" and "The Indispensability of the Concept of Truth."

In Truth and the Past, Dummett clarifies his current positions on the metaphysical issue of realism and the philosophy of language. He is best known as a proponent of antirealism, which loosely characterizes truth as what we are capable of knowing. The events of the past and statements about them are critical tests of an antirealist position. These essays continue and significantly contribute to Dummett's work.

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The best of all possible experiences, if you are interested in philosophy at all, would have been to hear Michael Dummett himself deliver these lectures. If, like myself, you missed that experience, the very next best is to read this volume. This is the work of a great philosopher at the peak of his form. -- Hilary Putnam, Harvard University A stimulating discussion. -- James C. Livingston The Review of Metaphysics

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Introduction--The Conscience of Society
1918 - 1922: Society Awakes Treatment will be free - 1918
The polyclinic will be opened in the winter and will grow into a Psi institute - 1919
The position of the polyclinic itself as the headquarters of the psycho-analytic movement - 1920
An Ambulatorium should exist for psychic treatment in the widest sense of the word - 1921
A Psychoanalytic Ambulatorium in Vienna - 1922
1923 - 1932: The Most Gratifying Years This help should be available to the great multitude - 1923
The honor proceeds from the Social Democratic Party - 1924
A warm sympathy for the fate of these unfortunates - 1925
Although absent from the opening of the Clinic, I am all with you - 1926
Of special value in the promotion of [psychoanalysis is] the establishment of Institutes and Outpatient Treatment Clinics - 1927
Freud knew exactly how things were in the world. But before he could go outside, he first had to know what was inside - 1928
The very group of patients who need our treatment are without resources - 1929
Free or low-cost analyses...[were] at least a small beginning - 1930
As a social-democratic town councilor, Dr. Friedjung has furthered our interests as psychoanalysts - 1931
Male applicants for treatment [were] regularly more numerous than female - 1932
1933 - 1938: Termination The Berlin Psychoanalytic... Policlinic... came to an end - 1933
Psychoanalysis [as] the germ of the dialectical-materialist psychology of the future - 1934
A written Children's Seminar of Marxist psychoanalysis - 1935
Social psychoanalysis - 1936
These were traumatic times and we talked little about them later - 1937
The fate of psychoanalysis depends on the fate of the world - 1938
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