One comes upon Michael Dummett in the strangest places... I know his phil. of math work quite well, but have also seen stuff he's written about immigration and (very poorly) about language. (These interests are apparently linked, he believes in spelling reform to make English easier for adults to learn.) I like this list of open problems, it is aggressively donnish in its phrasing.
I have published four novels and two academic books; forthcoming in 2014 is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
One comes upon Michael Dummett in the strangest places... I know his phil. of math work quite well, but have also seen stuff he's written about immigration and (very poorly) about language. (These interests are apparently linked, he believes in spelling reform to make English easier for adults to learn.) I like this list of open problems, it is aggressively donnish in its phrasing.
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