Dummett on Grice, Grice on Dummett

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Dummett's main teachers were J. O. Urmson and G. E. M. Anscombe.

The latter exerted the greater influence on him.

Other major philosophical influences were Frege and Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born philosopher who invented two radically different approaches to the analysis of language.

Dummett received a "B.A." with first-class honors in 1950.

In 1951 he married Agnes Margaret Ann Chesney, who has written many works on racism, immigration policy, citizenship, and nationality.

They have five children: Christopher, Andrew, Susanna, Tessa, and Paul; another son and daughter died young. Dummett received his M.A. from Oxford in 1954.

Dummett has spent virtually his whole career at Oxford, except for a one-year lectureship at Birmingham University in 1950-1951; a Harkness Fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley in 1955-1956; visiting professorships at the University of Ghana in 1958, Stanford University several times between 1960 and 1966, the University of Minnesota in 1968, Princeton University in 1970, and Rockefeller University in 1973; and a von Humboldt Prize visit to the University of Münster in 1981. He gave the William James Lectures at Harvard University in 1976. He held the Wykeham Chair in Logic at Oxford from 1979 until his retirement in 1992.