Michael Dummett. Thought and Reality

Michael Dummett on Social Choice and Voting

Michael Dummett worked on the theoretical aspects of aggregation of individual preferences and on the strategic aspects of voting theory. He also extended Black’s analysis of single-peaked preferences for majority rule to the case of voting games (majority games), offering a greater flexibility for the expression of voters’ preferences. He is also with Donald Saari one of the major advocates of...

An Interview with Michael Dummett: from Analytical Philosophy to Voting Analysis and Beyond

Social choice and welfare economics are subjects at the frontier of many disciplines. Even if economics played the major rôle in their development, sociology, psychology and, principally, political science, mathematics and philosophy have been central for the manifold inventiveness of the employed methods and for the diversity of the studied topics. This phenomenon can be compared with game the...

The Place of Philosophy of Phys- Ics in Physics and Philosophy: a Response to Michael Dummett

The paper is an attempt to react as direct and as close as possible on Dummett’s 2007 paper by addressing his overall theses about bridging the gulfs between philosophers and physicists and between analytical and continental philosophy on the one hand and, on the other hand, picking up a couple of more detailed issues Dummett raises about physics and its philosophy.

Navigating Virtual Reality by Thought: First Steps

We have set up a brain-computer interface to be used as an input device to a highly immersive virtual reality Cave-like system. We have carried out two navigation experiments: three subjects were required to rotate in a virtual bar room by imagining left or right hand movement, and to walk along a single dimension in a virtual street by imagining foot or hand movement. In this paper we focus on...

Chapter VII: Gödel-Dummett Logics