Michael Dummett

Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett  (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. He wrote on the history of analytic philosophy, and made original contributions  in the philosophies of mathematics, logic, language and metaphysics. 

He was known for his work on truth and meaning. In mathematical logic, he developed an intermediate logic, already studied by Kurt Gödel: the Gödel–Dummett logic.

Education
Dummett graduated in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. 

Career
Dummett was a Professor of Logic at Oxford. He taught philosophy at several other universities, such as Birmingham University, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Princeton University, and Harvard University. 

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1990.

Works
Here are some of his works in philosophy:
Thought and Reality (Oxford, 2006)
The Nature and Future of Philosophy (Columbia, 2010)
Voting Procedures (Oxford, 1984)
Principles of Electoral Reform (New York, 1997)

Awards
He won the Rolf Schock prize in 1995. He also won the Lauener Prize in Analytical Philosophy in 2010.Lauener Prize for an Outstanding Oeuvre in Analytical Philosophy

Notes

References

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-sir-michael-dummett-philosopher-and-anti-racism-campaigner-6293563.html
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780792328049
R. E. Auxier and L. E. Hahn (eds.) The Philosophy of Michael Dummett, The Library of Living Philosophers, vol XXXI Open Court, Chicago, 2007

Other websites
 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/28/sir-michael-dummett
 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/8981654/Professor-Sir-Michael-Dummett.html

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Category:British philosophers
Category:Analytic philosophers
Category:Members of Academia Europaea