Overview
- Gives an overview of Ramsey’s interdisciplinary work in many fields
- Shows his pioneering work in several other fields practitioners of which rarely know of
- Provides not only historical and biographical perspectives on one of the most gifted thinkers of the Twentieth Century, but new impulses for further research on at least some of the topics pioneered by Ramsey
Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook (VCIY, volume 12)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Cambridge and Vienna. Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle
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General Part
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Reviews
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cambridge and Vienna
Book Subtitle: Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle
Editors: Maria Carla Galavotti
Series Title: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4101-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4100-6Published: 06 March 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4101-3Published: 10 July 2006
Series ISSN: 0929-6328
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1818
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 256
Topics: History of Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy, general, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, Mathematical Logic and Foundations