Came here by searching for Frank Ramsey on the forum. I considered writing a post about the same biography you mentioned for the forum. It’s very humbling to see how much he already thought of, which we now call EA.
A related work I can recommend is “Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science”
Came here by searching for Frank Ramsey on the forum. I considered writing a post about the same biography you mentioned for the forum. It’s very humbling to see how much he already thought of, which we now call EA.
A related work I can recommend is “Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science”
Interesting. Can you say a bit more about what aspects of EA Ramsey had thought of, in your view? His views on discounting and probability?
I would love to read such a post!
Agreed — I think the Ramsey/Keynes-era Apostles would make an interesting case study of a ‘proto-EA’ community.
Gavin Leech has recently jotted down some thoughts on Ramsey here.