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Cheryl Misak - Frank Ramsey, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Frank Ramsey

A Sheer Excess of Powers

Av Cheryl Misak

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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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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-05-05
  • Mått: 153 x 234 x 40 mm
  • Vikt: 666 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 544
  • Förlag: OUP OXFORD
  • ISBN: 9780192856753
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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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an engaging account of the lamentably short life of Ramsey... exemplary piece(s) of intellectual history...

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2 recensioner, genomsnitt 4/5

  1. 4/5 Åke P

    Mycket intressant biografi om ett geni i samma klass som Einstein. Ramsey var, trots sina unga år, framstående inom filosofi, matematik och ekonomi.

  2. 4/5 Sten J

    Han förde intensiva diskussioner med de stora Russell, Moore, Keynes, Wittgenstein, m fl och har uppenbarligen påverkat dem alla. Stor förlust att han dog så ung.
    Misak har gjort ett bra jobb!

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