See Also: Dummett, Sir Michael A(nthony) E(ardley)(encyclopedia)
Alcott, (Amos) Bronson(encyclopedia)
Foyt, A(nthony) J(oseph), Jr.(encyclopedia)
Alcott, Louisa May(encyclopedia)
Alcott, Louisa May(dictionary)
Amos(encyclopedia)
Oz, Amos(encyclopedia)
Whitney, Amos(encyclopedia)
Amos (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Amos and Andy(dictionary)

Alcott, (Amos) Bronson (sh) and Dummett, Sir Michael A(nthony) E(ardley) (sh)


Alcott, (Amos) Bronson (sh)




born Nov. 29, 1799, Wolcott, Conn., U.S.
died March 4, 1888, Concord, Mass.

U.S. teacher and philosopher.

The self-educated son of a poor farmer, Alcott worked as a peddler before establishing a series of innovative but ultimately unsuccessful schools for children. He traveled to Britain with money borrowed from Ralph Waldo Emerson and came back with the mystic Charles Lane, with whom he founded the short-lived utopian community Fruitlands outside Boston. Alcott is credited with establishing the first parent-teacher association in Concord, Mass., while he was superintendent of schools there. A prominent member of the Transcendentalists, he wrote a number of books but did not become financially secure until his daughter Louisa May Alcott achieved Success.


Dummett, Sir Michael A(nthony) E(ardley) (sh)




born June 27, 1925, London, Eng.

British philosopher.

Dummett has done influential work in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, logic, and the philosophy of mathematics; he is also one of the foremost expositors of the work of Gottlob Frege. He is known chiefly for his defense of antirealism (see realism) and his attempt to explicate sentence meaning in terms of "assertibility conditions" rather than truth conditions. His major works include Frege: Philosophy of Language (1973), Truth and Other Enigmas (1978), The Logical Basis of Metaphysics (1991), and The Seas of Language (1993)