Ray Monk

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Ray Monk is Professor of Philosophy at The Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy at the University of Southampton, where he has taught since 1992. He is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius and of a two-volume biography of Bertrand Russell. He won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the 1991 Muff Cooper Prize for Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius. His interests lie in the philosophy of mathematics, the history of analytic philosophy and robots, and philosophical aspects of biographical writing. He is currently working on a biography of Robert Oppenheimer due to be published by Jonathan Cape in December 2008.

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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.

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