Frank Ramsey Centenary Volume

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Ramsey's Legacy

Edited by Hallvard Lillehammer and D. H. Mellor

Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2005, pp.x+182.

Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) was the greatest of all the remarkable philosophers working in Cambridge University in the first half of the twentieth century. In his short life, besides producing seminal work in philosophy, particularly in logic, metaphysics and the philosophy of mind and language, Ramsey created modern decision theory and new branches of mathematics and economics. This volume contains revised versions of papers, given at an international conference held in Newnham College Cambridge in 2003 to commemorate the centenary year of Ramsey's birth, which show the continuing importance and influence of his work in all these fields.

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Hallvard Lillehammer

Ramsey's Principle Resituated

Jerome Dokic & Pascal Engel

Success Semantics

Simon Blackburn

Ramsey's Legacies on Conditionals and Truth

Dorothy Edgington

What is Squiggle? Ramsey on Wittgenstein's Theory of Judgement

Peter M. Sullivan

Ramsey's Transcendental Argument

Michael Potter

Ramsey on Universals

Frasey MacBride

Empiricism and Ramsey's Account of Theories

Pierre Cruse

Ramsey Sentences and Avoiding the Sui Generis

Frank Jackson

What Does Subjective Decision Theory Tell Us?

D. H. Mellor

Three Conceptions of Intergenerational Justice

Partha Dasgupta

References
Index

Updated 12 September 2019