Michael Dummett Centenary Conference

29 June–1 July
Conference
Christ Church

A conference celebrating the philosophy of Michael Dummett at his centenary

At Christ Church and All Souls College, Oxford, 
and online via Zoom

A century on from his birth, this conference celebrates the seminal contributions made by Sir Michael Dummett (1925–2011) to the philosophy of language, logic and mathematics, as well as to metaphysics and our understanding of the work of German philosopher Gottlob Frege. A passionate campaigner against racism, he was knighted in 1999 for 'services to Philosophy and to Racial Justice.'

The conference will be held both at Christ Church, where Dummett came up to read PPE in 1947, after demobilisation from the army, and in All Souls College, where he was elected a Prize Fellow in 1950 and remained until 1979, when he was elected to Oxford's prestigious Wykeham Professorship in Logic and became a Professorial Fellow of New College.  He reached the mandatory retirement age of 67 in 1992.  He received the Rolf Schock Prize – often described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in philosophy – in 1995.

Invited speakers

Contributing speakers

Conference details

The conference will take place over three days, from Sunday 29 June to Tuesday 1 July 2025, with 13 invited speakers giving talks in 75-minute sessions, and three speakers giving contributed talks in 35-minute sessions.  

This conference will be hybrid, with participants joining in person and via Zoom, and takes place in Christ Church's Sir Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre and All Souls' Old Library and Wharton Room. The conference will move from Christ Church to All Souls after lunch on the second day – a five-minute walk. Please indicate when you register if you will need transport for this change of venue.

There is a £30 conference fee for in-person participants over the three days, or £10 per day for each day. Students, members of organizations supporting the conference, and anyone who is unemployed will receive a 50% discount on the conference fee.  Sandwich lunch and morning and afternoon tea or coffee will be provided for all registered in-person participants. There will be limited number of places available for the conference dinner in Christ Church on the first night (29 June), with the charge indicated on the registration page.  There is no conference fee for Zoom participants, but registration is required so we can send out the Zoom link.

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Sir Michael Dummett