Philosophical Papers

by G.E. Moore

Originally published 1959.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Classics

Paperback

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

George Edward "G. E." Moore OM, FBA was an English philosopher, one of the founders of the analytic tradition along with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and (before them) Gottlob Frege. With Russell, he led the turn away from idealism in British philosophy, and became well known for his advocacy of common sense concepts, his contributions to ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, and "his exceptional personality and moral character." He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, highly influential among (though not a member of) the Bloomsbury Group, and the editor of the influential journal Mind. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1918. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1894, and the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club.

Reviews

[Snowdenwald · Rating 5 out of 5]

He writes in a very nice and clear style. Reading this feels a bit like time travel - I wish these topics would still be discussed today, but unfortunately they are already "solved". The papers mainly cover the development of his common sense philosophy, arguments against idealism/external world skepticism & skepticism in general, mainly using the Moorean shift. The last paper consists of lecture notes of Wittgenstein's Cambridge lectures, really interesting.