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Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett FBA (/ ˈ d ʌ m ɪ t /; 27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was an English academic described as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality."
Michael Dummett was one of the most influential British philosophers of his generation. His philosophical reputation is based partly on his studies of the history of analytical philosophy and partly on his own contributions to the philosophical study of logic, language, mathematics and metaphysics.
Jun 23, 2024 · Sir Michael A.E. Dummett was an English philosopher who did influential work in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy. He was also one of the foremost expositors of the work of the German mathematical logician Gottlob.
Jan 4, 2012 · Sir Michael Dummett, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, died last week in Oxford, England. He held the position of Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University...
Dummett’s thinking about language largely begins from Wittgenstein and from A.J.Ayer’s verificationism. The verificationists used the slogan that ‘only verifiable sentences are meaningful’, to dismiss metaphysics. Dummett, though, argues that verificationism itself embodies a metaphysical view.
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett FBA (1925–2011) was an English academic. He was "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality". Dummett was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford.
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett died on 27 December 2011, at the age of 86, after a long illness. He spent his entire philosophical career at Oxford University, first as a Fellow at All Souls College and then at New College, as Wykeham Professor of Logic, from 1979 until his retirement in 1992.
Oct 19, 2023 · Sir Michael Dummett (he was knighted in 1991) is one of the most influential of living philosophers. His own contributions to philosophy have been bound up with his interpretations of the earlier philosophers Frege and Wittgenstein.
Obituary. Michael Dummett (1925-2011) Menno Lievers tells us about the ideas and life of an influential British philosopher. Philosophy in the 20th century, especially in the Anglo-Saxon world, has been dominated by ‘the linguistic turn’.
Feb 12, 2012 · Michael Dummett, one of the greatest English philosophers of the twentieth century, died late in December at the age of 86. He was a logician and a metaphysician, and also, incidentally, an expert on Tarot cards, which, he insisted, were for playing games with, not for divination.
