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Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein

May 30, 2020

19:44

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What Does It Mean to Say Wickenstein Was a Schola Soramsey?

03:21

Ramsey Was a Genius, but He Wasn't.

03:58

In Nineteen Twenty Nine, Was Ramsey a Sympathetic Expositor of Wickenstein?

02:09

Introduction

2min

The Relationship Between Frank Ramsey and Vickenstein

2min

In Nineteen Twenty Nine, Was Ramsey a Sympathetic Expositor of Wickenstein?

2min

What Does It Mean to Say Wickenstein Was a Schola Soramsey?

3min

Ramsey Was a Genius, but He Wasn't.

4min

How Did Ramsey Influence Wickenstein?

3min

Did He Ever Acknowledge the Influence You Found in the Private Diaries?

2min

Ramsey and Philosophy Bites

1min

Cheryl Misak has recently published a biography of F.P. Ramsey, the great Cambridge thinker who died at the age of only 26, but who nevertheless made a significant impact in several different fields including philosophy, mathematics, and economics. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast she discusses Ramsey's interactions with Wittgenstein. The two thinkers had very different personal styles and their philosophies reflect this.