Summary
Shahidha Bari looks at the legacy of Frank Ramsey who died in 1930 aged 27, but not before doing work that changed the course of philosophy, logic, mathematics and economics. Shahidha is joined by Cheryl Misak, who has recently published the first biography of Ramsey, and philosopher Steven Methven. Plus, philosopher Emily Thomas on the role travel has played in the development of philosophy.
Cheryl Misak's biography Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers is out now.
Emily Thomas' The Meaning of Travel is out now.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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| 0:36.9 | Hello, Simone de Beauvoir loved China and René Descartes hated Sweden. |
| 0:41.8 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau only wanted to travel on horseback and Albert Camus, well, Camus would rather have stayed at home, frankly. |
| 0:47.9 | We'll be talking about philosophy and travel in today's Arts and Ideas podcast. |
| 0:53.2 | Join me, Shah Hadabari and my fellow voyagers just after this. |
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| 1:34.9 | Hello, he was the economist's economist, |
| 1:37.9 | the philosopher's philosopher, |
| 1:39.5 | the mathematician's mathematician, |
| 1:41.4 | and quite possibly the finest mind of his generation. |
| 1:45.5 | At Cambridge, his clear-eyed questing after logic made the economist John Maynard Keynes eagerly seek his second opinion, |
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