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Michael Dummett


 

Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett (1925 - ) is a leading British philosopher, who has both written on the history of analytic philosophy, and made original contributions to the subject, particularly in the areas of philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language and metaphysics. He devised the Quota Borda system of proportional voting, based on the Borda count.

References

  • Richard Kirkham. Theories of Truth. MIT Press, 1992. Chapter 8 is a discussion of Dummett's views on meaning.
  • Karen Green. Dummett: Philosophy of Language. Polity, 2001. ISBN 074562295X