Cheryl Misak is university professor and professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. Her books include Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers; Cambridge Pragmatism; The American Pragmatists; Truth and the End of Inquiry; and Truth, Politics, Morality.
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When he died in 1930 aged twenty-six, 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 Wittgenst... SEE MORE