The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an equal. Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. This amiable shambling bear of a man was an ardent socialist, a believer in free love, and an intimate of the Bloomsbury set. For the first time, Cheryl Misak tells the story of his tragically short, but extraordinary life.
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Weight: 666g
Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
Publication Date: 05 May 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780192856753
About Cheryl Misak
Cheryl Misak is Professor of Philosophy as well as Vice-President and Provost at the University of Toronto. She received a BA from the University of Lethbridge an MA from Columbia University and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. She works on American pragmatism the theory of truth moral and political philosophy and the philosophy of medicine. She has published and edited books with Oxford University Press Routledge and Cambridge University Press and has published over forty scholarly articles. In 2008 her 'Experience Narrative and Ethical Deliberation' was declared one of the ten best papers in philosophy by The Philosopher's Annual. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has been a Humboldt Fellow at the Goethe University in Frankfurt a Visiting Fellow of St. John's College Cambridge and a Rhodes Scholar.