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 …
Frank Ramsey was a brilliant Cambridge philosopher, mathematician, and economist who died in 1930 at 26 having made landmark contributions to decision theory, game theory, mathematics, logic, semantics, philosophy of science, and the theory of truth. This rich biography tells th…
The trials of Socrates: six classic texts
by Plato, Reeve, C. D. C., Meineck, Peter, Doyle, James, Aristophanes, Xenophon
Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Herborn, was a man of many parts. This intellectual biography opens up unexpected perspectives on the central European Reformed tradition as a whole.
An account of the lives and opinions of the great philosophers of the Western World from Plato to Santayana.