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20th century · 1925–2011

Who influenced Michael Dummett?

Influences

Made truth a matter of verification and Frege the father of analytic philosophy.

Michael Dummett was influenced by Gottlob Frege and Ludwig Wittgenstein. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Michael Dummett?

Michael Dummett, Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford until 1992, wrote on the history of analytic philosophy as an interpreter of Frege and did original work on mathematics, logic, language and metaphysics. He is known for his work on truth and meaning and for popularising the term anti-realism.

In voting theory he devised the Quota Borda system, and he also wrote extensively on the history of card games, especially tarot. He was also a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality, married to the activist Ann Dummett.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Michael Dummett?

2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Michael Dummett

The longest documented line of influence ending at Michael Dummett runs 27 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  22. F. W. J. Schelling
  23. Georg W. F. Hegel
  24. T. H. Green
  25. F. H. Bradley
  26. Bertrand Russell
  27. Ludwig Wittgenstein
  28. Michael Dummett

Two steps away from Michael Dummett

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Michael Dummett

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Michael Dummett, with no direct line between them.

Michael Dummett by the numbers

Direct influences
2
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
121
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
33 — #69 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Rare

Questions about Michael Dummett

Who influenced Michael Dummett?
Gottlob Frege and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Who did Michael Dummett influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Michael Dummett.
When did Michael Dummett live?
1925–2011. The map files Michael Dummett under the 20th century.
How rare is the Michael Dummett card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Michael Dummett in 33 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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