Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930–1933
From the Notes of G. E. Moore

This volume is an edition of G. E. Moore's notes taken at Wittgenstein's seminal Cambridge lectures in the early 1930s.

David G. Stern (Edited by), Brian Rogers (Edited by), Gabriel Citron (Edited by)

9781108730198, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 January 2019

494 pages, 40 b/w illus. 30 tables
22.9 x 15 x 2.3 cm, 0.7 kg

'… [This] volume is a treasure chest. Moore's notes bring Wittgenstein's genius before us by inviting us to listen to his lectures and encounter the intensity of his thought before its brilliance has been disciplined by the carefully organised dialectic one finds in his famous works. The editors have done a tremendous job in resurrecting Moore's notes and thereby enhancing the availability of Wittgenstein's middle philosophy.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

This edition of G. E. Moore's notes taken at Wittgenstein's seminal Cambridge lectures in the early 1930s provides, for the first time, an almost verbatim record of those classes. The presentation of the notes is both accessible and faithful to their original manuscripts, and a comprehensive introduction and synoptic table of contents provide the reader with essential contextual information and summaries of the topics in each lecture. The lectures form an excellent introduction to Wittgenstein's middle-period thought, covering a broad range of philosophical topics, ranging from core questions in the philosophy of language, mind, logic, and mathematics, to illuminating discussions of subjects on which Wittgenstein says very little elsewhere, including ethics, religion, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and anthropology. The volume also includes a 1932 essay by Moore critiquing Wittgenstein's conception of grammar, together with Wittgenstein's response. A companion website offers access to images of the entire set of source manuscripts.

Editorial introduction
Synoptic table of contents
Lectures, Cambridge, 1930–3: from the notes of G. E. Moore: Lent term, 1930
May term, 1930
Michaelmas term, 1930
Lent term, 1931
May term, 1931
May term, 1932
Michaelmas term, 1932
Lent term, 1933
May term, 1933
Appendix: Moore's short paper on Wittgenstein on grammar
Biographies
Moore's abbreviations
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Philosophy of mathematics [PBB], Society & social sciences [J], Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], Philosophy: aesthetics [HPN], Philosophy of mind [HPM], Philosophy: logic [HPL], Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism [HPCF5], Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF], Philosophy [HP], Philosophy of language [CFA]