ABSTRACT

Michael Kremer’s essay exhibits a comprehensive understanding of the complex way that various lines of thought in Making It Explicit interlock and support one another. He does not try to evaluate the treatment of any one topic (singular terms, existential commitments …) in isolation from others, perhaps discussed in quite distant parts of the book, that bear on it. This willingness and ability to engage with the whole work makes Kremer both an unusually reliable expositor, and a particularly telling critic.