Philosophical Papers

London; New York: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. ; Humanities Press, Inc., [1959]. 1977 Reprint. Octavo volume with red cloth-wrapped boards ; 324 pages; index; 23 cm Mild shelfwear to boards, spine a tad bumped; else a very good(++) copy, no jacket. . Hardcover. ISBN: 0391008102

From the Muirhead Library of Philosophy, edited by H.D. Lewis. George Edwad Moore was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of Trinity College in the University of Cambridge. Contents: I. Are the Characteristics of Particular Things Universal or Particular? II. A Defence of Common Sense III. Facts and Propositions IV. Is Goodness a Quality? V. Imaginary Objects VI. Is Existence a Predicate? VII. Proof of an External World VIII. Russell's 'Theory of Descriptions' IX. Four Forms of Skepticism X. Certainty XI. Wittgenstein's Lectures in 1930-33. "George Edward Moore OM FBA (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the initiators of analytic philosophy. He and Russell began deemphasizing the idealism which was then prevalent among British philosophers and became known for advocating common-sense concepts and contributing to ethics, epistemology and metaphysics."--Wikipedia// Philosophy, 20th Century Philosophy, Philosophical Papers