Professor Ray Monk

Philosophy
School of Humanities
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Position: Research leave

Research projects

Selected Publications:

How To Read Wittgenstein (Granta Books, 2005)

Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness (Jonathan Cape, 2000)

Bertrand Russell: Mathematics: Dreams and Nightmares (Orion Books, 1997)

Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude (Jonathan Cape, 1996)

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (Jonathan Cape, 1990)

Biographical notes

BA York, MLitt Oxford

Ray Monk took up his position in Southampton in 1992. He has published award-winning biographies of Wittgenstein and Russell, and is interested in the history of analytic philosophy, the philosophy of mathematics, and philosophical issues arising from the practice of biography.

Contact Details:

Telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 3445
Email:  r.monk@soton.ac.uk

Teaching responsibilities for Professor Ray Monk

Module title	Module code	Discipline	Role
Classic Texts in Philosophy	PHIL6004	Philosophy	Course leader
Contemporary Continental Philosophy	PHIL3019	Philosophy	Course leader
Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein	PHIL2006	Philosophy	Course leader
Philosophy of Mathematics	PHIL3020	Philosophy	Course leader
Reason and Argument	PHIL1013	Philosophy	Course leader

Publications from e–Prints Soton

	Monk, Ray (2007) Life without theory: biography as an exemplar of philosophical understanding. Poetics Today, 28, (3), 527-570. (doi:10.1215/03335372-2007-007)
	Monk, Ray (2007) Bourgeois, Bolshevist or Anarchist? The reception of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics. In, Kahane, Guy, Kanterian, Edward and Kuusela, Oskari (eds.) Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker. Oxford, UK, Blackwell, 269-294.
	Monk, Ray (2007) This fictitious life: Virginia Woolf on biography and reality. Philosophy and Literature, 31, (1), 1-40. (doi:10.1353/phl.2007.0015)
	Monk, Ray (2006) Getting inside Heisenberg’s head. In, Macfie, Alexander Lyon (ed.) The Philosophy of History: Talks Given at the Institute of Historical Research, London, 2000-2006. Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 237-252.
	Monk, R. (2005) How to read Wittgenstein, London, UK, Granta Books, 128pp.
	Monk, Ray (2004) Objectivity, postmodernism and biographical understanding. In, Archer, Margaret and Outhwaite, William (eds.) Defending Objectivity: Essays In Honour of Andrew Collier. London, UK, Routledge, 33-47.
	Monk, Ray (2001) Philosophical biography: the very idea. In, Klagge, James.C. (ed.) Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 3-15.