Frank Ramsey
Subtitle: Truth and Success
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 21, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780415287197
First sentence: Ramsey's philosophical and mathematical background was almost entirely shaped by the intellectual atmosphere of Cambridge during the 1920s, and by the writings of the great Cambridgians who surrounded him: Russell, whose Principia Mathematica he read quite early; Moore, whose essays he discussed and with whom he participated in the Moral Sciences Club; John Maynard Keynes, his mentor, whose Treatise on Probability he discussed as soon as it was published (1921); C.D. Broad, whose Scientific Thought had appeared in 1923; his friend Richard Braithwaite, but also logicians such as W.E. Johnson and philosophers such as C.K. Ogden.