Michael Dummett
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Michael Dummett (27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was a British philosopher. He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He has both written on the history of analytic philosophy, most notably as an interpreter of Frege, and has made original contributions to the subject, particularly in the areas of philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language and metaphysics. He is especially well known for his work on truth and meaning and their implications for the debates between realism and anti-realism, a term he helped popularize. He also devised the Quota Borda system of proportional voting, based on the Borda count, and has written scholarly works on tarot. Other interests have been immigration law, English grammar and usage and contemporary Catholicism.
See also
- Is logic empirical? which discusses an article by Dummett on an argument of Hilary Putnam for the correctness of quantum logic
- Truth-value link realism, which Dummett criticized in early works
