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Title

Cambridge and Vienna : Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle / edited by Maria Carla Galavotti.

Publication

Dordrecht: Springer, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Galavotti, Maria Carla
• Institut Wiener Kreis.

Description

xiii, 256 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Vienna Circle Institute yearbook, 0929-6328 ; 12

Uniform Title

Vienna Circle Institute yearbook 12.

Subject

• Ramsey, Frank Plumpton, 1903-1930
• Vienna circle > Congresses
• Wiener Kreis
• Philosophy
• Logic
• Linguistics > Philosophy
• Science > Philosophy
• Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Note

• The Institute Vienna Circle held a conference in Vienna in 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Frank Ramsey : a biographical sketch / Gabriele Taylor -- Wittgenstein and Ramsey / Brian McGuinness -- The vicious circle principle / Michael Dummett -- Ramsey's psychological theory of belief / Patrick Suppes -- Discovering "Weight, or the value of knowledge" / Brian Skyrms -- Ramsey's Ramsey-sentences / Stathis Psillos -- Ramsey and the Vienna Circle on logicism / Eckehart Köhler -- Logical problems suggested by logicism / J.W. Degen -- The foundation of human evaluation in democracies from Ramsey to Damasio / Werner Leinfellner -- Ramsey's "Note on time" / Maria Carla Galavotti.

ISBN

• 1402041004 (hb : alk. paper)
• 9781402041006 (hb : alk. paper)
• 1402041012 (e-book : alk. paper)
• 9781402041013 (e-book : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007427472

OCLC

65763677

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Harvard Library