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.

Representative Works

• Frege: Philosophy of Language (London 1973, 1981)
• Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics (London 1991)
• Elements of Intuitionism (Oxford 1977, 2000)
• The Logical Basis of Metaphysics (London 1991)
• Origins of Analytical Philosophy (London 1993)
• The Seas of Language (Oxford 1993)
• Truth and Other Enigmas (London 1978)
• Truth and the Past (Oxford, 2005)
• Voting Procedures (Oxford 1984)
• Principles of Electoral Reform (New York 1997)