Cambridge and Vienna: Frank P Ramsey and the Vienna Circle

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Most widely held works by Institut Wiener Kreis. Cambridge and Vienna : Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, to commemorate the philosophical and scientific work of Frank Plumpton Ramsey This Ramsey conference provided not only historical and biographical perspectives on one of the most gifted thinkers of the Twentieth Century, but also new impulses for further research on at least some of the topics pioneered by Ramsey, whose interest and potential are greater than ever. Ramsey did pioneering work in several fields, practitioners of which rarely know of his important work in other fields: philosophy of logic and theory of language, foundations of mathematics, mathematics, probability theory, methodology of science, philosophy of psychology, and economics.

There was a focus on the one topic which was of strongest mutual concern to Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, namely the question of foundations of mathematics, in particular the status of logicism. Although the major scientific connection linking Ramsey with Austria is his work on logic, to which the Vienna Circle dedicated several meetings, certainly the connection which is of greater general interest concerns Ramsey's visits and discussions with Wittgenstein.

Ramsey was the only important thinker to actually visit Wittgenstein during his school-teaching career in Puchberg and Ottertal in the s, in Lower Austria; and later, Ramsey was instrumental in getting Wittgenstein positions at Cambridge. Scientific philosophy : origins and developments by Friedrich Stadler Book 4 editions published between and in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Development is the first Yearbook of the Vienna Circle Institute, which was founded in October This section offers a new paradigm for scientific philosophy, one which contrasts with the historiographical received view of logical empiricism.

Support for this re-evaluation is offered in the second section, which contains, for the first time in English translation, Gustav Bergmann's recollections of the Vienna Circle, and an historical study of political economist Wilhelm Neurath, Otto Neurath's father. A review section describes new publications on Neurath and the Vienna Circle, as well anthologies relevant to Viennese philosophy and its history, setting them in their wider cultural and political perspective.

Finally, a description is given of the Vienna Circle Institute and its activities since its foundation, as well as of its plans for the future. It is the first time that this topic has been treated on such a scale and at such depth. The main attention is paid to the origins, the development and the subsequent role of Tarski's definition of truth.

Some contributions are primarily historical, others analyze logical aspects of the concept of truth. Induction and deduction in the sciences by Friedrich Stadler Book 4 editions published between and in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide The articles in this volume deal with the main inferential methods that can be applied to different kinds of experimental evidence. These contributions - accompanied with critical comments - by renowned scholars in the field of philosophy of science aim at removing the traditional opposition between inductivists and deductivists.

The foundational debate : complexity and constructivity in mathematics and physics by Werner DePauli-Schimanovich Book 3 editions published in in English and held by 80 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Constructibility and complexity play central roles in recent research in computer science, mathematics and physics. Request removal from index. Translate to english. Revision history. Google Books no proxy Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server Configure custom proxy use this if your affiliation does not provide a proxy.

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Ramsey's Psychological Theory of Belief. Patrick Suppes. Thomas E. Uebel - - Perspectives on Science 16 1 Ramon Cirera ed. The Vienna Circle. Malachi H. Hacohen - - Journal of the History of Ideas 59 4 And, to be sure, I can imagine a wheel turning and never stopping. There is a strange difficulty here: it seems to me nonsense to say that there are in a room an infinite number of bodies, as it were by accident. On the other hand I can think in an intentional manner of an infinite law or an infinite rule that always produces something new — ad infinitum — but naturally only what a rule can produce, i.

It seems to me not unlikely that it was dictated to Ramsey as a draft for the Aristotelian Society talk, perhaps for translation. The paper discusses various problems of interest to Wittgenstein and Ramsey at the time I shall mention one shortly but ends up to show its general nature , as follows: Infinite possibility is represented by a variable whose place can be filled in infinitely many ways: and the infinite should not occur in a proposition in any other way.

Now this paper is also one in which the hand of Ramsey appears. As Wittgenstein explained to his friends in Vienna, he no longer thought that an elementary proposition was itself confronted with reality.

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It was now a propositional system that was laid against reality — and this had the consequence not that there were an infinite number of elementary propositions but that there were none, as is indeed said in the paper on the infinite we have just been discussing. The direction of influence between the two thinkers has been a subject of some discussion, Kienzler and Eva Picardi and Rosaria Egidi representing Wittgenstein as making the larger contribution, whereas Ulrich Maier and Mathieu Marion for example think Ramsey taught Wittgenstein to view mathematics in an intuitionist and even finitist way.

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What he now thinks I do not know. Least of all did Wittgenstein owe his finitism to Ramsey: in his passages on the matter taking the line we have seen Ramsey is always presented as the believer in an actual infinite whom it is important to refute. The real change came, and this is indicated even by the tribute to Ramsey in the preface to Philosophical Investigations, with the abandonment of the search for the essence of language, which was inspired by Sraffa and by the reading of that least Viennese of figures, Spengler, or, in other words, with the move away from dogmatism, as Wittgenstein called it in his conversation with Waismann in December Looking back, in the rough notebook Ms b used when he was making a determined effort to write the definitive account of his changed view his Ms , most of which survives in the opening sections of Philosophical Investigations , Wittgenstein says that the idea of the family [i.

Sraffa had shown him that he had to accept as a sign something for which he could not give the rules and grammar. From this point of view it is not surprising that in the original version of his well known list of influences on himself Wittgenstein includes just four — Frege and Russell, Spengler and Sraffa — the muses respectively of his first and of his later philosophy.

Ramsey is not even added later as Hertz, Kraus and others are. Of course we do not know how Ramsey would have developed had he lived, nor how this would have affected Wittgenstein. I suspect that Ramsey did not have the willpower to control Wittgenstein nor Wittgenstein the wit to convince Ramsey. Their paths would probably have diverged in any case. I will give a few instances of the passages where Wittgenstein, characteristically unsparing, anticipates this in describing this difference between Ramsey and himself on philosophical matters. He took Dadie Rylands round the College garden explaining how Shakespeare should be produced.

Something — more than one thing probably — changed him. His views were perhaps not given the attention they deserved. Rylands smiled at the advice that was given, Julian Bell wrote a poetic epistle, addressed to Braithwaite, protesting against the cultural hegemony claimed by Wittgenstein.

Wittgenstein began to find friends and disciples in less privileged and more earnest circles, who were primarily intent on personal improvement: King, Lee and Townsend, who have published their notes on his lectures; the circle round Skinner; and particularly Drury, Smythies and Rhees, who remained close to him till the end of his life. Each group is worthy of description, but none is remotely to be thought of in connexion with Bloomsbury. They were prepared, however, for the difficult task of discipleship: it meant that they had to get the essential things right and yet be prepared to disagree with Wittgenstein: above all they could not play with ideas, or indeed with much else.

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He found also friends of his own age and on his own level and, by a social law that I have observed operate at Oxford, these tended to be foreigners who more than was necessary but not more than was natural felt themselves outside the cosy world of the colleges. Piccoli, the professor of Italian, was one example. But the chief figure of this kind was undoubtedly Sraffa and here Wittgenstein was confronted with willpower almost equal to his own.

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Sraffa resembled Wittgenstein even in some of the methods and aims of his scientific work. He too could use their common friends Ramsey and Alister Watson to help him with the mathematics he needed, but he took strictly what he needed from them. I want instead to quote one Cambridge contemporary who felt that Wittgenstein also went, or wanted to go, outside the recognized borders of his subject. No great figure but a thoughtful friend of the Bloomsbury group, Sydney Waterlow, wrote to Moore as follows: [On reading Ramsey] contrast between his quite extraordinary powers and his immense vitality on the one hand and on the other the poverty of his Weltanschauung.

Wrong that there should be such a contrast; something has gone terribly wrong. For one thing there is a cocksureness in his attitude which I feel to be cosmically inappropriate.

A Russell or a Keynes can never grow out of that pertness — there is no principle of growth in them — but Ramsey is so good that he might have if he had lived. I rather think Wittgenstein knows and I believe one has got to find out.

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It is true the Wende took Wittgenstein in directions not envisaged by Spengler, Waterlow, or followers of Wittgenstein such as Paul Engelmann, but that his tendency was to break the boundaries, to change the donne is undeniable. It is far from clear that Ramsey would have wanted any such thing. Frances Partridge, Memories, Gollancz p.

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