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Cambridge Philosophers I: F. P. Ramsey1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

D. H. Mellor
D. H. Mellor
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Frank Plumpton Ramsey was born in February 1903, and he died in January 1930—just before his 27th birthday. In his short life he produced an extraordinary amount of profound and original work in economics, mathematics and logic as well as in philosophy: work which in all these fields is still, over sixty years on, extremely influential.

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Philosophy , Volume 70 , Issue 272 , April 1995 , pp. 243 - 262
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1995

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