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“... by training and profession, a philosopher by vocation, and an economist in his spare time, Frank Ramsey was blessed with an extraordinarily acute intelligence and an extremely likeable nature. Unfortunately for all those who knew him and for the intellectual history of the 20th century, he was also cursed with a chronic liver condition. He died in 1930 at ...”

“... think that she may be doing him a slight injustice here. Where Hume ‘got into a mess’, as F.P. Ramsey said, ‘was by taking an “idea” of necessity and looking for an “impression” ’. But I agree with Ramsey that Hume understood very well, even when he spoke of feelings of determination, that there was nothing ...”

“... no disturbing precocity as a schoolboy, no outward brilliance marking him out, as Russell and F.P. Ramsey were marked out in their earlier years. Mr Hodges includes photographs of seaside family holidays, redolent of their period and typical of a social class. He includes letters between Turing and a school friend to whom Turing was passionately attached, who ...”