Full name | Ray Monk |
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Born | 15 February 1957 |
Region | Western Philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy, postanalytic philosophy |
Main interests | Logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics |
Ray Monk is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, where he has taught since 1992.
He won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the 1991 Duff Cooper Prize for 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. He is currently working on a biography of Robert Oppenheimer.