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.
