Ray Monk

Infobox_Philosopher
region = Western Philosophy
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name = Ray Monk
birth =15 February 1957
school_tradition = Analytic philosophy, Post-Analytic Philosophy
main_interests = Logic, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mathematics,

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 Duff 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.

Bibliography

*"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.

External links

* [http://www.soton.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/monk.html Home page]
* [http://cdn4.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Ray_Monk_on_Philosophy_and_Biography.mp3?nvb=20080831175316&nva=20080901175316&t=0731c926df7775de173e5 "Philosophy Bites" podcast interview with Ray Monk on Philosophy and Biography]