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Cambridge Philosophers V

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Thomas Baldwin
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Moore much disliked the names ‘George Edward’ which his parents had bestowed upon him. Hence he was always known just as ‘Moore’ in his professional life, although at home there seems to have been a profusion of names—in his Commonplace Book he writes1: ‘I used to be called “Jumbo’, and used to be called “Tommy”; & also “Georgie”, & am still called by my brothers and sisters “George”; by Dorothy & others I am called “Bill”…‘

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Philosophy , Volume 71 , Issue 276 , April 1996 , pp. 275 - 285
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1996

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References

1 Commonplace Book Lewy, C. (ed). (London: Allen & Unwin, 1962) 248.Google Scholar

2 The Correspondence of W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore Bridge, Ursula (ed.) (London: Routledge, 1953).Google Scholar

3 Moore's, autobiography is in The Philosophy of G. E. Moore Schilpp, P. A. (ed.) (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1942).Google Scholar

4 Regan, T.Bloomsbury's Prophet (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986) chapter 2.Google Scholar

5 This letter is preserved with many of Moore's other papers in the Cambridge University Library. All the quotations from letters to Moore are from letters in this collection.

6 Portraits from Memory and other Essays (London: Allen & Unwin, 1956), 68.Google Scholar

7 Op. cit, 13–14.

8 ‘In what sense, if any, do past and future time exist?’ Mind n.s.6, 1897 220–240.

9 Cf. Moore's, review ‘Mr. McTaggart's “Studies in Hegelian Cosmology”’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society n.s.2, 1901–1902, 177–214.Google Scholar

10 ‘Death of Dr McTaggart’ Mind n.s. 34, 1925, 269–277.

11 Wisdom, J. ‘G. E. Moore’ Paradox and Discovery (Oxford: Blackwell, 1965), 83–84.Google Scholar

12 Op. cit., 16.

13 My Philosophical Development (London: Allen & Unwin, 1959), 54.

14 They are now preserved in the Wren Library, Trinity College.

15 Mind n.s. 8, 1899, 176–193.

16 Bosanquet's report is preserved with Moore's dissertation.

17 Mind n.s. 12, 1903, 433–453.

18 P. xviii

19 This passage comes from a paper on ‘Immortality’, written in 1900, now in Cambridge University Library.

20 ‘MrJoachim's, ‘Nature of Truth’’ Mind n.s. 16, 1907, 229–235.Google Scholar

21 ‘My Early Beliefs’ in The Collected Writings of j. M. Keynes: vol. X (London: St. Martins Press, 1972), 444.

22 Principia Ethica (Cambridge University Press, 1903), 118–119

23 Op. cit., 436.

24 Chatto & Windus, London: 1956, esp. Ch.IV.

25 Ethics (London: Oxford University Press, 1966), 129.

26 Pp. 83–84.

27 For an account of the history of the translation argument, cf. Lewy, C.Meaning and Modality (Cambridge University Press, 1976), 8 note 2.Google Scholar

28 This paper was published in Moore's Philosophical Papers (London: Allen & Unwin, 1959).

29 A characteristic piece which shows Moore's influence is Duncan-Jones, A. E. ‘Does Philosophy analyse Common Sense?’ Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 16, 1937, 139–161.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

30 Cf. Moore's paper ‘Professor James’ “Pragmatism”' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, n.s. 8, 1907–1908, 33–77.

31 Ayer, A. J.Part of My Life (Oxford University Press, 1978), 166.Google Scholar

32 Contemporary British Philosophy: 2nd. Series Muirhead, J. (ed.) (London: Allen & Unwin, 1925).Google Scholar

33 As, for example, in his refusal to attach any significance to our intuitive judgments of duty—Principia Ethica, 148–149.