Frank Ramsey Quotes

“What sort of philosophy one chooses depends…on what sort of man one is;”
― Cheryl Misak, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

“Though designing the house in which modern rational choice/utility/decision theory would inhabit, it is not clear that Ramsey would have chosen to reside there himself. For one thing, while he provided a logic of decision, he did not think that all human action and decision should be crammed into the strictures of rational choice theory, as many economists and social scientists today seem to assume. In his 1928 work in economics, he would make it clear that choosing to maximize utility is a moral decision, one which puts utility before justice and equality.”
― Cheryl Misak, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

“truth is that property of beliefs that enables us to succeed in our actions.”
― Cheryl Misak, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers