Michael Dummett
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett, FBA (27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was a British philosopher, described as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality."
Biography
He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He wrote on the history of analytic philosophy, most notably as an interpreter of Frege, and has made original contributions to the subject, particularly in the philosophies of mathematics, logic, language and metaphysics.
He was known for his work on truth and meaning and their implications for the debates between realism and anti-realism, a term he helped popularize. He devised the Quota Borda system of proportional voting, based on the Borda count.
In mathematical logic, he developed an intermediate logic, already studied by Kurt Gödel: the so-called Gödel–Dummett logic.
History of playing cards
Dummett speculated that Ganjifa and Mamluk playing cards may have descended from an earlier deck which consisted of 48 cards divided into four suits each with ten pip cards and two court cards.
See Playing cards.
See also
External links
- Michael Dummett @ Wikipedia
