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PHILOSOPHER

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 345,027 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Michael Dummett is the 842nd most popular philosopher (down from 805th in 2019), the 2,046th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,935th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Michael Dummett ranks 842 out of 1,081Before him are Syrianus, Albinus, Menedemus, Józef Maria Bocheński, Denis Pétau, and F. H. Bradley. After him are Byung-Chul Han, Wang Fuzhi, Anselm of Laon, Lanza del Vasto, Lubna of Córdoba, and Favorinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Michael Dummett ranks 177Before him are Jørgen Ingmann, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Farley Granger, Giovanni Spadolini, Julie Harris, and Edward Gorey. After him are Serge Dassault, Krishna Sobti, Kalle Svensson, June Whitfield, Klaus Roth, and Yuli Daniel. Among people deceased in 2011, Michael Dummett ranks 135Before him are Farley Granger, María Elena Walsh, James Hillman, Lawrence Eagleburger, María Mercader, and John Paul Getty III. After him are Jimmy Savile, Milivoj Ašner, Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Sena Jurinac, Susannah York, and Abdul Fatah Younis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Dummett ranks 2,046 out of 7,765Before him are Cecil Beaton (1904), Jonny Lee Miller (1972), John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316), F. H. Bradley (1846), Michael Powell (1905), and Gordon Milne (1937). After him are James Glaisher (1809), Paul Nurse (1949), William Cullen (1710), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967), and Jimmy Savile (1926).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Michael Dummett ranks 55Before him are Perry Anderson (1938), Anne Conway (1631), Philippa Foot (1920), Charles Kay Ogden (1889), Thomas Arnold (1795), and F. H. Bradley (1846). After him are J. M. E. McTaggart (1866), Samuel Clarke (1675), Frederick Copleston (1907), John Hick (1922), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678), and Richard Swinburne (1934).