Frank Ramsey

Author: Cheryl Misak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191074810
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 537

Book Description
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 full story of his extraordinary life.

Frank Ramsey

Author: Jérôme Dokic
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134445938
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Despite his tragic death at the age of 26, Frank Ramsey (1903 - 1930) remains one of the most intriguing minds of the twentieth century. His thought had a profound influence on both Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, and many strands of contemporary analytic philosophy find their origin in Ramsey's ideas. Frank Ramsey: Truth and Success provides a much-needed introduction to the work of this undervalued thinker, and makes an important and profound contribution to our understanding of Ramsey's work and his place in twentieth century philosophy. It will be of interest to all students of logic, metaphysics and the history of philosophy.

The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays

Author: Frank Plumpton Ramsey
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415225465
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Frank Ramsey (1903-1930)

Author: Margaret Paul
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781854632487
Category : Mathematicians
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
A biography of a brilliant mathematician and philosopher who belonged to the Cambridge of Moore, Russell and Wittgenstein. Ramsey was the innovator of a new subject of economic philosophy challenging Keynes on probability and contributing to taxation theory.

On Truth

Author: Frank Plumpton Ramsey
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792308577
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
The present publication forms part of a projected book that F. P. Ramsey drafted but never completed. It survived among his papers and ultimately came into the possession of the University of Pittsburgh in the circumstances detailed in the Editor's Introduction. Our hope in issuing this work at this stage - some sixty years after Ramsey's premature death at the age of 26 - is both to provide yet another token of his amazing philosophical creativity, and also to make available an important datum for the still to be written history of the development of philosophical analysis. This is a book whose appearance will, we hope and expect, be appreciated both by those interested in linguistic philosophy itself and by those concerned for its historical development in the present century. EDITORS'INTRODUCTION 1. THE RAMSEY COLLECTION Frank Plump ton Ramsey (22 February 1903 -19 January 1930) was an extra ordinary scholarly phenomenon. Son of a distinguished mathematician and President of Magdalene College, Cambridge and brother of Arthur Michael, eventual Archbishop of Canterbury, Ramsey was closely connected with Cambridge throughout his life, ultimately becoming lecturer in Mathematics in the University. Notwithstanding his great mathematical talent, it was primarily logic and philosophy that engaged his interests, and he wrote original and important contributions to logic, semantics, epistomology, probability theory, philosophy of science, and economics, in addition to seminal work in the foundations of mathematics.

Frank Ramsey

Author: Cheryl J. Misak
Publisher:
ISBN: 019875535X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 537

Book Description
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.

Cambridge and Vienna

Author: Maria C. Galavotti
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402041012
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
The Institute Vienna Circle held a conference in Vienna in 2003, Cambridge and Vienna – Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, to commemorate the philosophical and scientific work of Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930). This Ramsey conference provided not only historical and biographical perspectives on one of the most gifted thinkers of the Twentieth Century, but also new impulses for further research on at least some of the topics pioneered by Ramsey, whose interest and potential are greater than ever. Ramsey did pioneering work in several fields, practitioners of which rarely know of his important work in other fields: philosophy of logic and theory of language, foundations of mathematics, mathematics, probability theory, methodology of science, philosophy of psychology, and economics. There was a focus on the one topic which was of strongest mutual concern to Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, namely the question of foundations of mathematics, in particular the status of logicism. Although the major scientific connection linking Ramsey with Austria is his work on logic, to which the Vienna Circle dedicated several meetings, certainly the connection which is of greater general interest concerns Ramsey's visits and discussions with Wittgenstein. Ramsey was the only important thinker to actually visit Wittgenstein during his school-teaching career in Puchberg and Ottertal in the 1920s, in Lower Austria; and later, Ramsey was instrumental in getting Wittgenstein positions at Cambridge.

F. P. Ramsey: Philosophical Papers

Author: F. P. Ramsey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521376211
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
A compilation of all previously published writings on philosophy and the foundations of mathematics from the greatest of the generation of Cambridge scholars that included G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Maynard Keynes.

The Philosophy of F. P. Ramsey

Author: Nils-Eric Sahlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521385431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
F. P. Ramsey was a remarkably creative and subtle philosopher who made significant contributions to logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language and decision theory.

Collateralized Mortgage Obligations

Author: Frank J. Fabozzi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781883249625
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Financial experts Chuck Ramsey and Frank Ramirez join Frank Fabozzi for the third edition of Collateralized Mortgage Obligations: Structure & Analysis. Because of the complexity and the risk associated with CMOs, portfolio managers need specific keys to understand and unlock the potential of these unique investment tools. Fabozzi and company provide this understanding with detailed explanations of all aspects of CMOs, including factors affecting prepayment behavior; whole loan CMO structures; and accounting for CMO investments. Filled with relevant examples and in-depth discussions, Collateralized Mortgage Obligations: Structure & Analysis sheds light on this somewhat controversial and highly technical subject-which is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the fixed-income securities market.