Frank Ramsey
A Sheer Excess of Powers
(Sprache: Englisch)
Frank Ramsey was a brilliant Cambridge philosopher, mathematician, and economist who died in 1930 at 26 having made landmark contributions to decision theory, game theory, mathematics, logic, semantics, philosophy of science, and the theory of truth. This...
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Frank Ramsey was a brilliant Cambridge philosopher, mathematician, and economist who died in 1930 at 26 having made landmark contributions to decision theory, game theory, mathematics, logic, semantics, philosophy of science, and the theory of truth. This rich biography tells the story of his extraordinary life and intellectual achievement.
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Foreword: 'Mind and Heart'; Part I: Boyhood; 1 The Ramseys; 2 Winchester Nearly Unmade Him; 3 'We really live in a great time for thinking'; Part II: The Cambridge Man; 4 Undergraduate Life; 5 'To my generation, he was rather frightening'; 6 Ramsey and the Early Wittgenstein; 7 Vienna Interlude; 8 'The fundamentals are so philosophical'; 9 The New Don; 10 Passion Found; Part III: An Astonishing Half Decade; 11 Settling Down in Work and Life; 12 Revolution in Philosophy; 13 Two Crises; 14 Cambridge Economics; 15 Ramseyan Economics: The Feasible First Best; 16 1928 Return to Mathematics; 17 Wittgenstein Comes Home; 18 'The problem of philosophy must be divided if I am to solve it'; 19 The End and Meaning of a Life
Autoren-Porträt von Cheryl Misak
Cheryl Misak, University of Toronto 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.
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- Autor: Cheryl Misak
- 2020, XXXVI, 500 Seiten, 30 Abbildungen, Maße: 15,5 x 23,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019875535X
- ISBN-13: 9780198755357
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.02.2020
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Englisch
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