Cambridge and Vienna
Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle
Editors: Galavotti, Maria C. (Ed.)
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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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Frank Ramsey — A Biographical Sketch
Pages 1-18
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Wittgenstein and Ramsey
Pages 19-28
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The Vicious Circle Principle
Pages 29-33
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Ramsey’s Psychological Theory of Belief
Pages 35-53
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Discovering “Weight, or the Value of Knowledge”
Pages 55-65
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Cambridge and Vienna
- Book Subtitle
- Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle
- Editors
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- Maria C. Galavotti
- Series Title
- Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook
- Series Volume
- 12
- Copyright
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-4101-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/1-4020-4101-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-4100-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-7042-5
- Series ISSN
- 0929-6328
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 256
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