Metaphysical debates are properly understood as debates about logical laws.[1]
semantic anti-realist defence of mathematical intuitionism
Gödel–Dummett logic
Criticism of truth-value link realism and evidence-transcendent truth conditions[1]
Logical harmony
Quota Borda system
Proportionality for solid coalitions
Dummett-Farquharson conjecture
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley DummettFBA (/ˈdʌmɪt/; 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."[3] He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He wrote on the history of analytic philosophy, notably as an interpreter of Frege, and made original contributions particularly in the philosophies of mathematics, logic, language and metaphysics.
He was known for his work on truth and meaning and their implications to debates between realism and anti-realism, a term he helped to popularize. In mathematical logic, he developed an intermediate logic, a logical system intermediate between classical logic and intuitionistic logic that had already been studied by Kurt Gödel: the Gödel–Dummett logic. In voting theory, he devised the Quota Borda system of proportional voting, based on the Borda count, and conjectured the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem together with Robin Farquharson; he also devised the condition of proportionality for solid coalitions. Besides his main work in analytic philosophy and akin areas, he also wrote extensively on the history of card games, particularly on tarot card games.
He was married to the political activist Ann Dummett from 1951 until his death in 2011.
^ abDummett, Michael – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
^Brown, Stuart, ed. (2005). Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers. Vol. 1. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 237.
^"Obituary for Professor Sir Michael Dummett". Telegraph. London. 28 December 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett FBA (/ˈdʌmɪt/; 27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was an English academic described as "among the most significant British...
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Austrian realism in the former state of Austria-Hungary, so much so that MichaelDummett has remarked that analytic philosophy is better characterized as Anglo-Austrian...
after the publication of Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism". However, MichaelDummett has advocated a modified form of verificationism since the 1970s. In...
in the philosophy of language, Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0-415-27255-6. MichaelDummett. Frege: Philosophy of Language, chap. 7, pp. 211–219. Diamond, Cora...
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mainstream science. Nevertheless, the philosopher and card game historian MichaelDummett, whose analysis of the historical evidence suggested that fortune-telling...
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