F.P. Ramsey: Philosophical Papers

Cambridge, England, UK, New York, et al.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 1st Published: 1990 . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. David Deadman (Jacket Design); Lettice (Photo of Frank Ramsey by). 257 pp. A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, collectible gem! A wonderful copy and dust jacket! A great, almost spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Dust jacket shows minimal wear around edges. Essentially solidly bound copy with minimal external wear. Clean text on bright, crisp pages. Mild warping at center of book. Dust jacket shows very minor wear around places. Slightly slanted spine. Synopsis: Ramsey was the greatest of the remarkable generation of Cambridge philosophers and logicians which included G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Maynard Keynes. Before his tragically early death in 1930 at the age of twenty-six, he had done seminal work in mathematics and economics as well as in logic and philosophy. This volume, with a new and extensive introduction by D. H. Mellor, contains all Ramsey's previously published writings on philosophy and the foundations of mathematics. The latter gives the definitive form and defence of the reduction of mathematics to logic undertaken in Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica; the former includes the most profound and original studies of universals, truth, meaning, probability, knowledge, law and causation, all of which are still constantly referred to, and still essential reading for all serious students of these subjects.