Ray Monk on Biography Wittgenstein: Life Without Theory

Recording of Prof. Ray Monk s lecture, Life Without Theory, delivered on Nov. 20, 2007 at the Philosophy Department at the University of Bergen. From the introduction to his article on biography: This article discusses recent attempts to provide the genre of biography with a philosophical, theoretical foundation and attempts to show that such efforts are fundamentally misguided. Biography is, I argue, a profoundly nontheoretical activity, and this, precisely, makes it philosophically interesting. Inst