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Name
  
Ray Monk

Role
  
Philosopher


Region
  
Western philosophy



Main interests
  
Logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics

Areas of interest
  
Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mathematics, Logic

Schools of thought
  
Postanalytic philosophy, Analytic philosophy

Books
  
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty, Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Insi, Bertrand Russell: The Spirit, How to read Wittgenstein, The Great Philosophers: Russell

Similar People
  
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Frederic Raphael, Bertrand Russell, Bryan Magee

Philosophical era
  
Contemporary philosophy

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Ray Monk FRSL (born 15 February 1957) is a British philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, where he has taught since 1992.

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He won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the 1991 Duff Cooper Prize for his biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius. His interests lie in the philosophy of mathematics, the history of analytic philosophy, and philosophical aspects of biographical writing. His biography of Robert Oppenheimer was published in 2012.

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In 2015 he was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Society of Literature.

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Works

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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius. London: Vintage, 1991.
  • Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude 1872–1921. London: Vintage, 1996.
  • Russell. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997.
  • Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness 1921–1970. London: Vintage, 2001.
  • How to Read Wittgenstein. London: Granta, 2005.
  • Inside the Centre: the Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer. London: Jonathan Cape, 2012
  • "Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Sketch of His Life" (chapter in A Companion to Wittgenstein, edited by Hans-Johann Glock and John Hyman . Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)
  • References

    Ray Monk Wikipedia