Sir Michael A.E. Dummett

Sir Michael A.E. Dummett, in full Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett   (born June 27, 1925, London, England—died December 27, 2011, Oxford), English philosopher who did influential work in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy. He was also one of the foremost expositors of the work of the German mathematical logician Gottlob Frege (1848–1925). Dummett was known chiefly for his defense of antirealism (see realism) and his attempt to explicate sentence meaning in terms of “assertibility conditions” rather than truth conditions.

Dummett attended Sandroyd School and Winchester College and later served in ... (100 of 640 words)