G.E. Moore

G. E. Moore
Born	George Edward Moore (1873-11-04)4 November 1873 Hastings Lodge, Victoria Road, Dulwich Wood Park, Upper Norwood, London
Died	24 October 1958(1958-10-24) (aged 84) Evelyn Nursing Home, Cambridge, England
Other names	"Moore" (colleagues) "Bill" (family)
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1896)
Spouse(s)	Dorothy Ely
Era	19th / 20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Main interests	Ethics Epistemology Philosophy of language
Notable ideas	Naturalistic fallacy Moore's paradox Paradox of analysis "Here is one hand"
Influences Gottlob Frege John McTaggart Bertrand Russell Henry Sidgwick Leonard Woolf George Stout
Influenced Bertrand Russell Ludwig Wittgenstein W. D. Ross J. L. Austin John Maynard Keynes Max Black Susan Stebbing

George Edward "G. E." Moore OM FBA (/mʊər/; 4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher. He was, with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and (before them) Gottlob Frege, one of the founders of the analytic tradition in philosophy. Along with Russell, he led the turn away from idealism in British philosophy, and became well known for his advocacy of common sense concepts, his contributions to ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, and "his exceptional personality and moral character." He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, highly influential among (though not a member of) the Bloomsbury Group, and the editor of the influential journal Mind. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1918. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1894 to 1901, and the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club.

Moore was born in Upper Norwood, Croydon, Greater London, on 4 November 1873, the middle child of seven of Dr Daniel Moore and Henrietta Sturge. His grandfather was the author Dr George Moore. His eldest brother was Thomas Sturge Moore, a poet, writer and engraver.

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