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News: January/February 2012

Mary Midgley wins Philosophy Now award • Philosophers & physicists discuss particles • Mixed-up monkeys ‘better than mice’ — News reports by Sue Roberts

Michael Dummett

The Oxford philosopher Professor Sir Michael Dummett died at the end of December, aged 86. Dummett was among the most influential British philosophers of the late 20th century, particularly in philosophy of language (he wrote about the relationship between evidence and truth) and philosophy of mathematics (he defended intuitionism). He was also a campaigner for racial tolerance; in 1958 he and his wife Ann co-founded the Institute of Race Relations think tank. Their passion for racial justice resulted in Dummett putting his academic career on hold for a time in order to campaign against racism. Dummett’s first book, Frege: Philosophy of Language did not appear until 1973, but was followed by several later works.

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