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Michael Dummett

1925 - 2011

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Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett (; 27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was an English academic described as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality." He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He wrote on the history of analytic philosophy, notably as an interpreter of Frege, and made original contributions particularly in the philosophies of mathematics, logic, language and metaphysics. He was known for his work on truth and meaning and their implications to debates between realism and anti-realism, a term he helped to popularize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Dummett has received more than 367,317 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Dummett is the 854th most popular philosopher (down from 842nd in 2019), the 2,000th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,041st in 2019) and the 53rd most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Michael Dummett ranks 854 out of 1,267. Before him are Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Michel Marcel Navratil, Michel Henry, Tan Sitong, Maximus of Ephesus, and Gaudapada. After him are Jean Guitton, Józef Maria Bocheński, Musaeus of Athens, Arethas of Caesarea, Perry Anderson, and Domingo de Soto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Michael Dummett ranks 174. Before him are Doris Hart, June Whitfield, John DeLorean, Yuval Ne'eman, Krishna Sobti, and Wojciech Has. After him are Arlene Dahl, Etel Adnan, Julie Harris, Don Alden Adams, Vera Vasilyeva, and Rosario Castellanos. Among people deceased in 2011, Michael Dummett ranks 137. Before him are Peter Yates, Andy Whitfield, Hella Haasse, Osamu Dezaki, Montserrat Figueras, and Lena Nyman. After him are John Wood, Hind Rostom, Andrea True, Harri Holkeri, Anatole Abragam, and Nirmala Srivastava.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Dummett ranks 2,000 out of 8,785. Before him are Tom Hiddleston (1981), George Mary Searle (1839), John Kerr (1824), William Smith (1813), Eric Woolfson (1945), and John Butler Yeats (1839). After him are Joe Davis (1901), Unity Mitford (1914), Chas Chandler (1938), Edward Cave (1691), John Wood (1930), and Reg Park (1928).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Michael Dummett ranks 53. Before him are Henry More (1614), Raymond Williams (1921), Stephen Toulmin (1922), Frederick Copleston (1907), F. H. Bradley (1846), and Charles Kay Ogden (1889). After him are Perry Anderson (1938), William Paley (1743), Bernard Williams (1929), John Scott Haldane (1860), Richard Swinburne (1934), and Martin Lings (1909).

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