Lectures on Metaphysics, 1934-1935: Edited by Alice Ambrose: 130 (American University Studies, Series 5: Philosophy) - Tapa dura

These notes of G. E. Moore's lectures for the three terms of 1934-1935 were compiled by Alice Ambrose, then Student of Newnham College, and Margaret Macdonald, then Fellow of Girton College. The lectures cover a wealth of interrelated topics, and provide instances of the analyses which made Moore -the father of the analytic school.- Since his analyses of such concepts as material objects, sense data, and truth rest on the ordinary use of expressions for these concepts, -ordinary language- philosophers found in him their champion. Moore examines the views of Broad, Russell, F. P. Ramsey, W. E. Johnson, and John Wisdom."

The Editor: Alice Ambrose, now Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, did her undergraduate work at Millikin University, and received Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin and Cambridge University. During her three years in Cambridge, she was a pupil of Moore and Wittgenstein, with Moore as supervisor of her doctoral dissertation. She is the author of "Essays in Analysis," and the co-author, with Morris Lazerowitz, of "Fundamentals of Symbolic Logic, Philosophical Theories, Necesidad y Filfofia, Essay in the Unknown Wittgenstein, Necessity and Language." She is the co-editor, with Morris Lazerowitz, of books of essays on Moore and on Wittgenstein. She is also the editor of "Wittgenstein's Lectures, Cambridge 1932-1935." Professor Ambrose was named President of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, in 1975, and was Visiting Professor at the University of Delaware, Carleton College, and Hampshire College."