Michael Dummett

Quotes

• “Philosophy can take us no further than enabling us to command a clear view of the concepts by means of which we think about the world, and, by so doing, to attain a firmer grasp of the way we represent the world in our thought. It is for this reason and in this sense that philosophy is about the world.”
• “Such were the lucidity of exposition and his mastery of the topic that it seems possible that, had he ever published it, the political theory of Britain would have been significantly different.”
• “...the most interesting fact about the Tarot pack [is] that it is the subject of the most successful propaganda campaign ever launched: not by a very long way the most important, but the most completely successful. An entire false history, and false interpretations, of the Tarot pack was concocted by the occultists; and it is all but universally believed.”

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Key facts

Born

Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett , ( 1925-06-27 ) 27 June 1925, London, England

Died

27 December 2011 (2011-12-27) (aged 86), Oxford , England

Burial place

Wolvercote Cemetery , Oxford

Spouse

Ann Dummett ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 ) ​

Awards

Lakatos Award (1994) Rolf Schock Prize (1995)

Education

Christ Church, Oxford , (1947–50; B.A. , 1950)

Academic advisor

Antony Flew

Era

Contemporary philosophy

Region

Western philosophy

School

Analytic philosophy

Institutions

All Souls College, Oxford New College, Oxford

Doctoral students

Peter Carruthers , Adrian Moore , Ian Rumfitt , Eva Picardi , Timothy Williamson

Notable students

Hans Sluga , Crispin Wright

Main interests

Philosophy of mathematics Philosophy of logic Mathematical logic Philosophy of language Metaphysics History of analytic philosophy Voting theory Theology

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