The Institute Vienna Circle held a conference in Vienna in 2003,
Cambridge and Vienna Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, to
commemorate the philosophical and scientific work of Frank Plumpton
Ramsey (1903 1930). 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 1920s, in Lower Austria; and later, Ramsey was
instrumental in getting Wittgenstein positions at Cambridge. "
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