Talk:Michael Dummett

message: "The book was instrumental in the rediscovery of Frege's work, and influenced a whole generation of British philosophers, including Gareth Evans" - This is an odd sentence. For one thing, it seems reasonable to assume Evans was more influenced by studying under Dummett than by this particular book. Moreover, the singling out of Evans is itself jarring and redundant anyway as Evans is already listed as being influenced by Dummett (do we need a separate category for 'very influenced' into which we put Evans, Wright, Peacocke and all Dummett's other students?) I've removed the sentence, I hope uncontroversially. 128.232.243.176 (talk) 18:48, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Including Gareth Evans

message: Anon User:208.96.110.56 keeps adding :Category:Christian philosophers to the article, although it is redundant since the page is in :Category:Roman Catholic philosophers.  Is there a case for this redundant inclusion that I don't see?  If not, I'll keep reverting, and welcome any help when I run out of my daily 3Rs. — Charles Stewart (talk) 14:24, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redundant category 

message: I have reduced the level of detail in that section - better covered, I'd suggest, in a historical article on tarot - and used a reference (the article's first!) to correct any impression that occultism was an important concern in Dummett's work.KD Tries Again (talk) 18:15, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Card Games and Tarot 

message: I upgraded the "importance" to "high". The philosophy importance is obvious, imho. For the Oxford project, Dummett has served as Warden of a college, has long been an internationally top philosopher, was known as a public critic of Thatcher's university policies, agitated as a public intellectual on race and immigration, unconventional interests in Tarot, important work on voting theory (games), etc. Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 19:44, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: As a member of WP:OXFORD, I have re-rated importance as "mid"; the project does not tend to rate individual professors/heads of colleges as "high". BencherliteTalk 07:26, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for your correction. Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 20:42, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment

message: Theoterrorism versus Freedom of Speech—A Review, Quillette:
»To my mind, the philosopher and devout Roman Catholic Michael Dummett came out of the debate about religious sensitivities and free expression looking even worse. Dummett’s position was not only illiberal, it was nasty and vindictive and unbecoming of an eminent logician. On February 11, 1990, while Rushdie was still in hiding under police protection and in fear of his life, Dummett published a tirade against him in the Independent entitled “Open Letter to Rushdie,” in which he pointed to the “untold damage” caused by the Rushdie Affair, although not to Rushdie himself. Instead, Dummett accused the beleaguered author of causing the “intensified alienation of Muslims here and in other Western countries from the society around them” who experienced “a far more severe imprisonment” than Rushdie.
Rushdie, he went on, “can never again credibly assume the stance of denouncer of white prejudice … now you are one of us. You have become an honorary white: merely an honorary white intellectual, it is true, but an honorary white all the same.” He continued: “If you really did not grasp the offence you would give to believing Muslims, you were not qualified to write upon the subject you chose.” To this, Cliteur provides the simple rebuke that the history of philosophy is full of “offensive ideas,” and notes that Dummett later supported extending the blasphemy law to cover other religions, arguing that “if there had been such a law, the Rushdie Affair would not have occurred.”«
Taylor and Dummett on the Rushdie Affair, Journal of Religion and Society, Kripke Center, Creighton University, volume 18, 2016
»Paul Cliteur, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
The famous twentieth-century  philosophers  Charles  Taylor  and  Michael  Dummett have both  commented  on  the  Rushdie  Affair.  This  article  analyzes  their  criticism  of the  British author  Salman Rushdie  and  tries  to demonstrate the  relevance  of  this  criticism  against  the backdrop of the massacre in the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015.Unfortunately,two great philosophers of our time do not give us guidance here. The world is confused, our political leaders are confused,and great political philosophers are confused. This is important,because if freedom of expression,thought,and religion are to survive in this world, it is necessary to defend these freedoms.« --tickle me 06:19, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dummett on the Rushdie Affair 

message: Re this: WP:R#PLA: "after following a redirect, the reader's first question is likely to be: "Hang on ... I wanted to read about this. Why has the link taken me to that?" Make it clear to the reader that they have arrived in the right place. Normally, we try to make sure that all "inbound redirects" other than misspellings or other obvious close variants of the article title are mentioned in the first couple of paragraphs of the article or section to which the redirect goes. It will often be appropriate to bold the redirected term." Bold text is not always discouraged in the body of the article. In this case, Semantic realism (epistemology) and Semantic anti-realism (epistemology) redirect to a section of Michael Dummett. As per policy we must make it clear to the reader that they have arrived in the right place. --Omnipaedista (talk) 15:59, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:R#PLA]]