ABSTRACT

This is Volume XVII of twenty-two in a series on 20th Century Philosophy. Originally published in 1959, it is a contribution to the History of Modern Philosophy under the heads: first of different Schools of Thought-Sensationalist, Realist, Idealist, Intuitivist; secondly of different Subjects-Psychology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Theology. This is a collection of papers by George Edward Moore, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of Trinity College in the University of Cambridge.

chapter II|28 pages

A Defence of Common Sense

chapter III|29 pages

Facts and Propositions

chapter IV|13 pages

Is Goodness a Quality?

chapter V|13 pages

Imaginary Objects

chapter VI|12 pages

Is Existence a Predicate?

chapter VII|24 pages

Proof of an External World

chapter VIII|45 pages

Russell's ‘Theory of Descriptions'

chapter IX|31 pages

Four Forms of Scepticism

chapter X|25 pages

Certainty

chapter XI|73 pages

Wittgenstein's Lectures in 1930–33