Ray Monk

Ray Monk is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton and a highly acclaimed biographer of three intellectual giants of the twentieth century: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Oppenheimer, and Bertrand Russell. Monk studied philosophy at the University of York and Oxford. In 1991, he debuted with his biography of Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, which won two literary awards. In 1992, he joined the University of Southampton, where he taught for 26 years. He specializes in the history of analytical philosophy, the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of biography. In addition, he often speaks out about the necessity of a better, more sustainable way of living with our natural environment.