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Philosophia Mathematica 2005 13(2):202-215; doi:10.1093/philmat/nki024
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Philosophia Mathematica (III), Vol. 13 No. 2 © Oxford University Press, 2005, all rights reserved

Book Review

NEIL TENNANT. The Taming of the True. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 466. ISBN 0-19-823717-0 (cloth), 0-19-925160-6 (paper).

John P. Burgess*

*Department of Philosophy, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1006, U. S. A. jburgess@princeton.edu

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Thirty-odd years ago Michael Dummett advanced a new philosophical argument for intuitionistic revision of mathematics and logic (Dummett [1973]Go). The argument generated an enormous amount of discussion, though most commentators, led by Crispin Wright, avoided straightforward commitment pro or con. Neil Tennant, by contrast, is an enthusiastic proponent of Dummettianism who has devoted two whole books to the cause, of which the item under belated review is the second, though he assures us it is complementary to and not dependent on the first (Tennant [1987]Go). The ethics of reviewing requires me to disclose that I have been on record as an opponent of Dummettry ever since writing a short, uncomplimentary analysis of Dummett's argument two decades ago (Burgess [1984]Go).


   1. Preliminaries
 
Though Tennant differs from other commentators in being far more interested in making a case for a definite view rather than in taxonomizing possible positions—his introductory chapter 1 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   2. The Manifestation Argument
 

   3. From ‘Is’ to ‘Ought’
 

   4. Scientific Costs
 

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