パトナムと共に分析哲学を代表する現役哲学者の実在論、言語哲学への最新の関心を示す論文集。New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2004. Dummett's John Dewey Lectures - "The Concept of Truth" "Statements About the Past" and "The Metaphysics of Time", delivered at Columbia in 2002, revised and expanded with new essays, "Truth: Deniers and Defenders" and "The Indispensability of the Concept of Truth." "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.