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It is difficult to deny, I believe, that during the last forty years or so Michael Devitt has been a leading philosopher in the analytic field. The purpose of this volume is to celebrate his many important contributions to philosophy on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.
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Just for the record, Devitt and Sterelny wanted to call their book Language, Mind, and Everything, inspired on the one hand by the opening of Quine’s “On What There Is” and on the other by the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything in Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The publisher found the title too jocular.
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Bianchi, A. (2020). Introduction – Michael Devitt at Eighty. In: Bianchi, A. (eds) Language and Reality from a Naturalistic Perspective. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 142. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47641-0_1
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