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FRANK RAMSEY OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, Spi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, Spi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi FRANK RAMSEY OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi CHERYL MISAK FRANK RAMSEY a sheer excess of powers 1 OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OXDP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Cheryl Misak The moral rights of the author have been asserted First Edition published in Impression: All rights reserved. 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Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi 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’sNote xvii Acknowledgements xix Preface xxiii PART I. BOYHOOD . The Ramseys . Winchester Nearly Unmade Him . ‘We Really Live in a Great Time for Thinking’ PART II. THE CAMBRIDGE MAN . Undergraduate Life . ‘To My Generation, He Was Rather Frightening’ . Ramsey and the Early Wittgenstein . Vienna Interlude . ‘The Fundamentals Are So Philosophical’ . The New Don . Passion Found PART III. AN ASTONISHING HALF DECADE . Settling Down in Work and Life . Revolution in Philosophy OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi . Two Crises . Cambridge Economics . Ramseyan Economics: The Feasible First Best . Return to Mathematics . Wittgenstein Comes Home . ‘The Problem of Philosophy Must Be Divided If I Am to Solve It’ . The End and Meaning of a Life Endnotes Illustration Sources Bibliography Name Index Subject Index vi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . Frank, crop from Winchester College photo, . . Frank, happy at home, with his parents and sisters, c. . Winchester College House, . Frank in glasses, with chin up, near top row. . Frank half-heartedly in fancy dress. . College prefects, . Frank top row, third from right. Igor Vinogradoff next to him on the left; Richard Pares on the ground, right; Sylvester Gates, ‘the nastiest man in College’ seated third from left; Foot, seated, second from right. . Richard Braithwaite. . Lionel Penrose. . Tsemou Hsu/Xu Zhimo. . G.E. Moore. . I.A. (Ivor) Richards. . Bertrand Russell and Dora Black. . Frank with Irene Martin and Kingsley Martin, on holiday in Bavaria, . . Dorothy Wrinch. . Dora Carrington, Steven Tomlin, Sebastian Sprott, and Lytton Strachey. . Margaret and Geoffrey Pyke. . Frank, c. . Lettice Cautley Baker. . Harold Jeffreys and his bicycle. . J.M. Keynes and Lydia Lopokova. . Ludwig Wittgenstein, . . Agnes Ramsey. . Arthur Ramsey, . . Elizabeth Denby. . Arthur Pigou. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi . Letter from Frank to Ludwig. ‘I really think it will be alright about your degree.’ . Frank reading while on a walking holiday in the Alps. . Hilton Hall filming, , from left to right: Bunny Garnett, Angus Wilson (?), Frances Marshall, Beakus Penrose, Ray Marshall, Frank, Lettice. viii OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS: ARCHIVAL SOURCES ASP/FPR.. Frank Plumpton Ramsey Papers, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh Library System ASP/RC.. Rudolf Carnap Papers, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh Library System ASP/HR.. Hans Reichenbach Papers, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh Library System BL British Library BK Kingsley Martin Collection, Sussex University BR Ludwig Wittgenstein Collection: Research Institute Brenner Archive, University of Innsbruck BRA Bertrand Russell Archive, McMaster University BTTS Better than the Stars, (Mellor, ) CA Cambridgeshire Archives CUL Cambridge University Archives DA Maurice Drury Archive, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland EC Einstein Collection, Hebrew University GCA Girton College Archives, Cambridge KH Harrod and Keynes Notes and Memoranda, University of Tokyo Archives KCA King’s College Archive, Cambridge LRA Lettice Ramsey Autobiography, courtesy of Stephen Burch LWG Ludwig Wittgenstein: Gesamtbriefwechsel / Complete Correspondence, Electronic Edition MBP Max Black Papers, Cornell University MCA Magdalene College Archives, Cambridge OF Ogden Fonds, McMaster University TCL Trinity College Library, Trinity College, Cambridge TFL Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi TFL MS/COLL/ Laurie Kahn Ramsey Collection, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto VCA Vienna Circle Archives, Noord-Hollands Archief WCA Winchester College Archives x OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS: PUBLISHED WORKS OF FRANK RAMSEY AND LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Details can be found in the Bibliography. Ramsey C ‘Chance’ CN Critical Notice of Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus DP ‘The Douglas Proposals’ DS ‘On There Being No Discussable Subject’ EBFM ‘The Foundations of Mathematics’, Encyclopedia Britannica EBM ‘Mathematics: Mathematical Logic’, Encyclopedia Britannica EBR ‘Russell, Bertrand Arthur William’, Encyclopedia Britannica FM ‘The Foundations of Mathematics’ FP ‘Facts and Propositions’ GC ‘General Propositions and Causality’ K ‘Knowledge’ KP ‘Mr. Keynes on Probability’ ML ‘Mathematical Logic’ NP ‘The Nature of Propositions’ NPPM Notes on Philosophy, Probability and Mathematics NST ‘Notes on Saving and Taxation’ OT On Truth P ‘Philosophy’ RMM Review of Ogden and Richards, The Meaning of Meaning RT Review of Keynes A Treatise of Probability TH ‘Theories’ TP ‘Truth and Probability’ TT ‘A Contribution to the Theory of Taxation’ U ‘Universals’ UMA ‘Universals and the “Method of Analysis”’ OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi Wittgenstein CV Culture and Value LAPR Lectures & Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief LFM Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics M Letter to the Editor of Mind MCI ‘Arthur MacIver’s Diary: Cambridge’ PG Philosophical Grammar PI Philosophical Investigations PPO Ludwig Wittgenstein: Public and Private Occasions PR Philosophical Remarks RPP Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, Volume I T Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus WCL Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents WPCR Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Conversations with Rush Rhees Z Zettel xii OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi TRUNCATED FAMILY TREE Plumpton Stravinson m. Elizabeth Walker Charles Kenneth Clifford John Geoffrey Mary Ethel Archibald Margaret Plumpton Plumpton Plumpton Plumpton Wayet Plumpton Agnes Frank Plumpton (m. Michael Lettice Cautley Baker) Jane Sarah Ann Elizabeth Julia Stephen Frank Belinda Jane Matthew Robert OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi Adam Averell Ramsey m. Hephzibah Sargeant Arthur Phebe Gertrude Maude Charles Winnifred Frank Mabel Stanley Rebecca Mary Maria Harold Bertha Bridget Margaret OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi AUTHOR’SNOTE I have endeavoured to trace copyright holders and obtain permission to quote from all material under copyright. (For permission to reproduce copyrighted images, see List of Illustrations.) I gratefully acknowledge the following. Stephen Burch granted me permission to quote the many passages from the private correspondence and diaries of Frank Ramsey and Lettice Ramsey. Permis- sion to reproduce material from their collections, over which they hold copyright, has been granted by the Archives of Scientific Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh Library System; The Provost and Scholars of King’s College, Cambridge; the Ber- trand Russell Archive, McMaster University; the British Library Board; the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge; the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Noord-Hollands Archief; the Syndics of Cambridge Uni- versity Library; the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library, University of Toronto; and the Warden and Scholars of Winchester College. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 7/1/2020, SPi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In the attempt to make sense of the whole of Ramsey’s work, I have had to call on considerable expertise. Various authorities on Ramsey contributed directly by writing guest boxes, in addition to providing feedback on my surrounding
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