ABSTRACT
On September 11, 1898, G. E. Moore wrote to Bertrand Russell to give him a synopsis of the views he had developed in his Trinity Fellowship dissertation, submitted the month before. This chapter deals with the question as to how Russell could have ever called Moore a logician. The Moral Sciences Tripos had at first consisted of moral philosophy, logic, history, political economy, general jurisprudence, and the laws of England. Moral science should more naturally consist of logic, metaphysics, and psychology. Indeed, by the late 1890s, the Moral Sciences Tripos had been divided into two parts. Part I consisted of Psychology, Logic and Methodology, and Political Economy. The Part II Tripos consisted of a number of complex options. The expressions “logic,” “psychology,” and “metaphysics” could mean just about anything depending on who employed them; what country they were in; what interests they had; how little they took account of other thinkers’ work; and how confused they were accused of being.
