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.
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 is a Professor of Philosophy and a Collegiate Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. His publications include Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2004) and Wittgenstein Reads Weininger (co-edited with Béla Szabados, Cambridge, 2004). Brian Rogers is an attorney in Los Angeles. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine, and has published in journals including The Review of Symbolic Logic and the Nordic Wittgenstein Review. Gabriel Citron is a Postdoctoral Associate in Jewish Philosophy and Lecturer in Philosophy at Yale University, Connecticut. He has published in journals including Mind and Philosophical Investigations.
'The material presented in this edition is of the first importance
to Wittgenstein scholarship. It helps us narrow in on early but
richly developed steps in Wittgenstein's thinking on issues to do
with meaning and understanding, the notion of 'grammar', rule
following, notions of sense and nonsense, and the foundations of
logic and mathematics … The editorial approach laid out in the rich
introduction and demonstrated in the main sections of the edition
seems to me to be just right, striking a balance between
completeness and faithfulness, on the one hand, and readability on
the other … this edition helps get us closer to hearing more fully
and more directly what Wittgenstein said in his lectures from this
period.' Jeff Johnson, St Catherine University, Minnesota
'As we learn more about Wittgenstein's lectures, we find that he
often made points in a clearer, subtler, or more elaborate fashion
in his lectures than in his own writings. It is a gift to have
these full lecture notes by G. E. Moore, that allow us to judge for
ourselves the points Wittgenstein made as he engaged with his
students over his new thoughts.' James C. Klagge, Virginia Tech
'No one would have been better qualified than G. E. Moore was to
take notes enabling him to draw a vivid picture helping today's
readers to get a good grasp of what it was like to attend
Wittgenstein's brilliant classes in the early 1930s. Stern, Rogers
and Citron have done an extremely good job: readers will be
indebted to them for a meticulous edition which succeeds in
balancing scholarly needs and all reasonable requirements of
readability. The book presenting these lecture notes constitutes an
exceptional document which everyone interested in the development
of Wittgenstein's mature thought will gratefully add to their
shelves.' Joachim Schulte, Universität Zürich
'Moore's notes on Wittgenstein's lectures from 1930 to 1933
illuminate a decisive stage in the development of Wittgenstein's
thought from his early to his later philosophy. We see Wittgenstein
dismantling day by day the assumptions of the Tractatus and see
rising from the rubble the outlines of a fresh, new philosophizing.
The volume will prove indispensable to anyone who wants to track
the changes in Wittgenstein's thinking. It gains substantially from
the extensive editorial and explanatory notes provided by its
editors.' Hans Sluga, University of California, Berkeley
'G. E. Moore's notes from Wittgenstein's 1930–1933 Cambridge
lectures constitute a new and indispensable resource for students
and scholars of Wittgenstein's philosophy alike. … With reference
to Wittgenstein's later philosophy, one key highlight of the text
under review is an Appendix containing a short paper on
Wittgenstein on 'grammar', delivered to the class by Moore in
February 1932. … Again, I can enthusiastically recommend the book
both to students and scholars. For anyone with an interest in
Wittgenstein's rich, sophisticated, and challenging philosophy,
Moore's notes will prove to be a fruitful and significant, if not
essential, scholarly resource.' James Connelly, Dialogue: Canadian
Philosophical Review
'… [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
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