Max Black: A Memoir

by Max Black, Susanna Eve (Editor)

Transcription of an interview of Max Black by his son-in-law S.P. Rosenbaum done in 1987. Covers his youth, education and professional life until the late 1940s. Black was a philosopher with a background in mathematics and logic. He was at Cambridge in the early 1930s, where he knew G.E.Moore and attended classes with Wittgenstein.

208 pages, Paperback

Published January 5, 2015

Reviews

[James Klagge · Rating 4 out of 5]

I believe this is a privately published book. I recently discovered it, after having researched the original interview transcript in the Cornell Special Collections in 2012. It contains interesting information about Cambridge and academia in the late 1920s through the 1930s as it pertains to philosophy and logic. The interview stops around the time Black joined the faculty at Cornell in the late 1940s. Presumably Black passed away before he could recount his whole academic life. It was especially interesting to me because Black gives eye-witness accounts of Wittgenstein's 1929 lecture on ethics, and Wittgenstein's class meetings in early 1930.