Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett (27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was an

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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,

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of Logic at the

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. He wrote on the history of

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, notably as an interpreter of

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, and made original contributions particularly in the philosophies of mathematics,

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and

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. He was known for his work on truth and meaning and their implications to debates between

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and anti-realism, a term he helped to popularize. He devised the Quota Borda system of proportional voting, based on the

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. In

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, he developed an intermediate logic, already studied by

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: the

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Education and army service

Born 27 June 1925, Dummett was the son of George Herbert Dummett (1880–1970), a silk merchant, and Mabel Iris née Eardley-Wilmot (1893–1980). He studied at Sandroyd School in Wiltshire, at

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as a scholar, and at

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, which awarded him a major scholarship in 1943. He was called up for military service that year and served until 1947, first as a private in the

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, then in the Intelligence Corps in India and Malaya. In 1950 he graduated with a first in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford and was elected a Prize Fellow of

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Academic career

In 1979, Dummett became

of Logic at Oxford, a post he held until retiring in 1992. During his term as Wykeham Professor, he held a Fellowship at

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. He has also held teaching posts at Birmingham University,

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, and

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. He won the

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prize in 1995, and was

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ed in 1999. He was the 2010 winner of the Lauener Prize for an Outstanding Œuvre in Analytical Philosophy. During his career at Oxford, Dummett supervised many philosophers who went on to distinguished careers, including Peter Carruthers, Adrian Moore,

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, and

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Philosophical work

Dummett's work on the German philosopher

has been acclaimed. His first book '' Frege: Philosophy of Language'' (1973), written over many years, is seen as a classic. It was instrumental in the rediscovery of Frege's work, and influenced a generation of British philosophers. In his 1963 paper "Realism", he popularised a controversial approach to understanding the historical dispute between realist and other non-realist philosophy such as

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, irrealism. He classed all the latter as

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and argued that the fundamental disagreement between realist and anti-realist was over the nature of truth. For Dummett, realism is best understood as semantic realism, i.e. the view that every declarative sentence in one's language is

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(determinately true or false) and evidence-transcendent (independent of our means of coming to know which), while anti-realism rejects this view in favour of a concept of knowable (or assertible) truth. Historically, these debates had been understood as disagreements about whether a certain type of entity objectively exists or not. Thus we may speak of realism or anti-realism with respect to other minds, the past, the future, universals, mathematical entities (such as

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), moral categories, the material world, or even thought. The novelty of Dummett's approach consisted in seeing these disputes as at base analogous to the dispute between

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and Platonism in the

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. Dummett espoused semantic anti-realism, a position suggesting that truth cannot serve as the central notion in the theory of meaning and must be replaced by verifiability. Semantic anti-realism is sometimes related to

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Activism

Dummett was politically active, through his work as a campaigner against racism. He let his philosophical career stall in order to influence

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for minorities during what he saw as a crucial period of reform in the late 1960s. He also worked on the theory of voting, which led to his introduction of the Quota Borda system. Dummett drew heavily on his work in this area in writing his book ''On Immigration and Refugees'', an account of what justice demands of states in relationship to movement between states. Dummett, in that book, argues that the vast majority of

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has been founded on racism, and says that this has especially been so in the UK. He has written of his shock on finding

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and

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opinions in the diaries of

, to whose work he had devoted such a high proportion of his professional career. In 1955–1956, while in

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, Dummett and his wife joined the

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. In June 1956 he met Martin Luther King Jr. while visiting San Francisco, and heard from him of Alistair Cooke providing the British public with what King defined as "biased and hostile reports" of the

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and specifically of the Montgomery bus boycott. Dummett travelled to Montgomery and wrote his own account. However, ''

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'' refused to publish Dummett's article and his refutation of Cooke's version of the Montgomery events, even in a shortened account as a Letter to the Editor; the ''

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'', too, also refused to publish it.

Elections and voting

Dummett and

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published influential articles on the theory of voting, in particular conjecturing that deterministic voting rules with more than three issues faced endemic

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. The Dummett–Farquharson conjecture was proved by

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, a philosopher and former student of

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and John Rawls, and by the economist Mark A. Satterthwaite. After the establishment of the Farquharson–Dummett conjecture by Gibbard and Satterthwaite, Dummett contributed three proofs of the

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in a monograph on voting. He also wrote a shorter overview of the theory of voting, for the educated public.

Card games and tarot

Dummett was a scholar in the field of card-game history, with numerous books and articles to his credit. He was a founding member of the International Playing-Card Society, in whose journal ''

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'' he regularly published opinions, research and reviews of current literature on the subject; he was also a founder of the

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. His historical work on the use of the tarot pack in

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, ''The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City'', attempted to establish that the invention of Tarot could be set in 15th-century

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. He laid the foundation for most subsequent research on the game of

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, including exhaustive accounts of the rules of all hitherto known forms of the game. B.M. Taylor goes as far as to say that ''The Game of Tarot'' "is the most important book on cards ever written." Dummett's analysis of the historical evidence suggested that fortune-telling and

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interpretations were unknown before the 18th century. During most of their recorded history, he wrote, Tarot cards were used to play a popular trick-taking game which is still enjoyed in much of Europe. Dummett showed that the middle of the 18th century saw a great development in the game of Tarot, including a modernized deck with French suit-signs, and without the medieval allegories that interest occultists. This coincided with a growth in Tarot's popularity. "The hundred years between about 1730 and 1830 were the heyday of the game of Tarot; it was played not only in

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, eastern

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

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and

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, but also in

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, the

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and even

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. Not only was it, in these areas, a famous game with many devotees: it was also, during that period, more truly an international game than it had ever been before or than it has ever been since...." In 1987, Dummett collaborated with Giordano Berti and Andrea Vitali on the project of a great Tarot exhibition at Castello Estense in

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. On that occasion he wrote some texts for the catalogue of the exhibition.

Roman Catholicism

In 1944, Dummett was received into the

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and remained a practising Catholic. Throughout his career, Dummett published articles on various issues then facing the Catholic Church, mainly in the English Dominican journal ''New Blackfriars''. Dummett published an essay in the bulletin of the Adoremus Society on the subject of liturgy, and a philosophical essay defending the intelligibility of the Catholic Church's teaching on the

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. In October 1987, one of his contributions to ''New Blackfriars'' sparked controversy by seemingly attacking currents of Catholic theology that appeared to him to diverge from orthodox Catholicism and "imply that, from the very earliest times, the Catholic Church, claiming to have a mission from God to safeguard divinely revealed truth, has taught and insisted on the acceptance of falsehoods." Dummett argued that "the divergence which now obtains between what the Catholic Church purports to believe and what large or important sections of it in fact believe ought, in my view, to be tolerated no longer: not if there is to be a rationale for belonging to that Church; not if there is to be any hope of reunion with the other half of Christendom; not if the Catholic Church is not to be a laughing-stock in the eyes of the world." A debate on these remarks continued for months, with the theologian

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and the historian Eamon Duffy among the contributors.

Later years and family

Dummett retired in 1992 and was knighted in 1999 for "services to philosophy and to racial justice". He received the

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in the

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in 1994. Dummett died on 27 December 2011 aged 86, leaving his wife

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(married in 1951, died in 2012) and three sons and two daughters. A son and a daughter predeceased them.

Works

*On analytical philosophy and logic: **'' Frege: Philosophy of Language'' (

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, 1973/1981) **''The Interpretation of Frege's Philosophy'', Duckworth, 1981;

**'' Elements of Intuitionism'' (Oxford, 1977, 2000) **'' Truth and Other Enigmas'' (

, 1978) **'' Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics'' (

, 1991) **'' The Logical Basis of Metaphysics'' (

, 1991)
''Origins of Analytical Philosophy''
(

, 1993) **''The Seas of Language'' (Oxford, 1993) **'' Frege and Other Philosophers'' (Oxford, 1991)
''Truth and the Past''
(Oxford, 2005) **''Thought and Reality'' (Oxford, 2006) **''The Nature and Future of Philosophy'' (Columbia, 2010) *On voting theory and election systems: **''Voting Procedures'' (Oxford, 1984) **'' Principles of Electoral Reform'' (New York, 1997) ** ** ** *On politics: **'' On Immigration and Refugees'' (London, 2001) *Tarot works: **''The Game of Tarot: from Ferrara to Salt Lake City'' (Duckworth, 1980) **''Twelve Tarot Games'' (Duckworth, 1980) **''The Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards'' (G. Braziller, 1986) **''Il mondo e l'angelo: i tarocchi e la loro storia'' (Bibliopolis, 1993) **''I tarocchi siciliani'' (La Zisa, 1995) **''A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot'' (with Ronald Decker and Thierry Depaulis, St. Martin's Press, 1996) **''A History of the Occult Tarot, 1870-1970'' (with Ronald Decker, Duckworth, 2002) **''A History of Games Played with the Tarot Pack'' (with John McLeod, E. Mellen Press, 2004) Notable articles and exhibition catalogues include "Tarot Triumphant: Tracing the Tarot" in ''FMR'', (''Franco Maria Ricci International''), January/February 1985; Pattern Sheets published by the

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; with Giordano Berti and Andrea Vitali, the catalogue ''Tarocchi: Gioco e magia alla Corte degli Estensi'' (Bologna, Nuova Alfa Editorale, 1987). *On the written word: **''Grammar and Style'' (Duckworth, 1993)

Notes

References

Bibliography

* Taylor, B.M. (1987). ''Michael Dummett: Contributions to Philosophy''. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: Nijhoff.

External links

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Biographical notes
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"Remembering Michael Dummett", at The Stone
''New York Times'' blogs, 4 January 2012
"Sir Michael Dummett obituary"
by A. W. Moore, ''The Guardian'', 28 December 2011
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