Frank Plumpton Ramsey

Frank P. Ramsey
Frank P. Ramsey
	Ramsey, c. 1921
Born	22 February 1903; Cambridge, UK
Died	19 January 1930 (aged 26); London, UK
Education	Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1923)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	King's College, Cambridge
Main interests	Philosophy of mathematics; Logic; Metaphysics; Epistemology;
Notable ideas	Theory of simple types; Redundancy theory of truth; Ramsey sentences; Ramsey–Lewis method; Ramsey theory; Ramsey problem; Ramsey–Dvoretzky–Milman phenomenon; Ramsey test; Ramsey's theorem; Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans model; Keynes–Ramsey rule; Bernays–Schönfinkel–Ramsey class;
	Influences Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Sanders Peirce, Bertrand Russell, Charles Kay Ogden;
	Influenced Susan Haack, Iván Werning, Ludwig Wittgenstein;

Frank Plumpton Ramsey (/ˈræmzi/; 22 February 1903 – 19 January 1930) was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist. He made major contributions to all three fields before his death at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein. He translated Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English. He also had great effect in getting Wittgenstein to come back to philosophy and Cambridge.

References

↑ Cheryl Misak, Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 3.

[1] Cheryl Misak, Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 3.

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