Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey...
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Author: Cheryl Misak
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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Misak, Cheryl

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

$87.08

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

$87.08
Author: Cheryl Misak
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.


Author: Cheryl Misak
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/06/2020
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9780198755357

About the Author

Cheryl Misak is University Professor and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She works on American pragmatism, the history of analytic philosophy, ethics and political philosophy, and the philosophy of medicine.

Her most recent books include Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers (forthcoming 2020), Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein, The American Pragmatists, Truth and the End of Inquiry: A Peircean Account of Truth, Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and
Deliberation.

She has had visiting fellowships or positions at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, the Free University in Berlin, Trinity College Cambridge, St. John's College Cambridge, and New York University.

In 2013 she completed a long run in academic administration at the University of Toronto, culminating as Vice-President and Provost.

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