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When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an equal. Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. This amiable shambling bear of a man was an ardent socialist, a believer in free love, and an intimate of the Bloomsbury set. For the first time Cheryl Misak tells the full story of his extraordinary life.

 

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

vii

List of Abbreviations: Archival Sources

ix

List of Abbreviation: Published Works of Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein

xi

Family Tree xiv

Author's Note xvii

Acknowledgements xix

Preface xxiii

PART I BOYHOOD

1 The Ramseys

3 (23)

2 Winchester Nearly Unmade Him

26 (27)

3 `We Really Live in a Great Time for Thinking'

53 (20)

PART II THE CAMBRIDGE MAN

4 Undergraduate Life

73 (38)

5 To My Generation, He Was Rather Frightening

111 (17)

6 Ramsey and the Early Wittgenstein

128 (19)

7 Vienna Interlude

147 (35)

8 The Fundamentals Are So Philosophical'

182 (11)

9 The New Don

193 (10)

10 Passion Found

203 (32)

PART III AN ASTONISHING HALF DECADE

11 Settling Down in Work and Life

235 (21)

12 Revolution in Philosophy

256 (26)

13 Two Crises

282 (14)

14 Cambridge Economics

296 (12)

15 Ramseyan Economics: The Feasible First Best

308 (23)

16 1928 Return to Mathematics

331 (14)

17 Wittgenstein Comes Home

345 (37)

18 `The Problem of Philosophy Must Be Divided If I Am to Solve It'

382 (29)

19 The End and Meaning of a Life

411 (20)

Endnotes 431 (36)

Illustration Sources 467 (2)

Bibliography 469 (16)

Name Index 485 (7)

Subject Index