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Ray Monk

Ray Monk FRSL (born 15 February 1957) is a British biographer who is renowned for his biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. He is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton, where he taught in various capacities from 1992 to 2018.

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University of York (M.A., 1979) University of Oxford (MLitt)
Born
(1957-02-15) 15 February 1957 (age 69)
Era
Contemporary philosophy
Institutions
University of Southampton
Main interests
Philosophical biography, history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of mathematics, veganism
Region
Western philosophy

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Ray Monk → University of Southampton
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Ray Monk → Analytic philosophy, postanalytic philosophy

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