Dummett argues that the aim of philosophy is the analysis of thought and that, with Frege, analytical philosophy learned that the route to the analysis of thought is the analysis of language. Here are bold and deep readings of the subject's history and character, which form the topic of this volume.

1. 'The Logical Basis of Metaphysics'; Adrian Moore   2. 'Seeking the Logical Basis of Metaphysics'; Cora Diamond 3. 'How Rare is Chairman Mao? Dummett, Frege, and the Austere Conception of Nonsense'; Sanford Shieh 4. 'Making Knowledge of Meaning Explicit'; Bernhard Weiss 5. 'Frege on that-clauses'; Wolfgang Kunne 6. 'Dummett on Frege on Functions'; Karen Green 7. 'Meaning and Dummett's Austrians'; Peter Simons   8. 'Dummett and the Frege-Husserl Debate on Number'; George Duke