The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays

FIRST EDITION, 8vo., 5 3/4 x 8 5/8" 292 pages plus 20 pages of publisher's list dated 1938 (Only some copies of the first edition sheets were bound and issued upon publication. Slow sales of these copies delayed the binding and distribution of the remaining sheets, which were instead bound in stages over the next several years, as demand required. These copies had new publisher's catalogues inserted, distinguishing them from the first issued copies without such catalogues). Edited by R. B. Braitwaite with a preface by G. E. Moore. part of the International Library of Psychology Philosophy and Scientific Method series. This copy with the bookplate on inside front cover of Marcus G. Singer plus his signature dated 1949 on first page. Singer, was a noted philosopher and former professor at University of Wisconsin Madison. slight bowing to rear cover and a couple of light smudges to cloth cover. first impression, of the posthumous collection of essays by the Wittgenstein-influenced philosopher Frank Ramsey (1904-1930). In 1930 Ramsey died suddenly, aged only 26, and the present book, a collection of his philosophical and logical papers and articles, contains his principal work in philosophy and mathematics and one of his three influential papers in economics ("Truth and Probability"). The collection was posthumously prepared by R. B. Braithwaite, with the assistance of Wittgenstein (cited on p. xiv). He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and, as an undergraduate, translated Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English. He was also influential in persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and Cambridge. Like Wittgenstein, he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the secret intellectual society, from 1921 (Wikipedia).