Frank Ramsey's biographer, the philosopher Cheryl Misak, discusses the relationship between Ramsey and Wittgenstein in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Ramsey was a brilliant thinker who made significant contributions to philosophy, mathematics, and economics, despite dying at the age of 26. The two thinkers had very different personal styles, and this to some extent was reflected in their philosophies. Misak suggests that Ramsey influenced Wittgenstein's move away from the Tractatus to the more pragmatic thinking of the Philosophical Investigations.
Listen to Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein
Listen to an earlier Philosophy Bites interview with DH Mellor on Frank Ramsey on Truth
You might also be interested in this essay in the New Yorker by Anthony Gottlieb on Frank Ramsey 'The Man Who Thought Too Fast'
DH Mellor made this radio programme about Frank Ramsey in 1978 'Better than the Stars' - it includes interviews with a number of people who knew him well.
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