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Wittgenstein: Lectures, – Cambridge 1930 1933 This edition of G.E. Moore’s notes, taken at Wittgenstein’s seminal Cam- bridge lectures in the early 1930s, provides, for the first time, an almost verbatim record of those classes. The presentation of the notes is both accessible and faithful to the original manuscripts, and a comprehensive introductionandsynoptictableofcontentsprovidethereaderwithessen- tial contextual information and summaries of the topics in each lecture. The lectures form an excellent introduction to Wittgenstein’s middle- period thought, covering a broad range of philosophical topics ranging from core questions in the philosophy of language, mind, logic, and mathematics, to illuminating discussions of subjects on which Wittgen- stein says very little elsewhere, including ethics, religion, aesthetics, psy- choanalysis, and anthropology. The volume also includes a 1932 essay by Moore critiquing Wittgenstein’s conception of grammar, together with Wittgenstein’s response. A companion website offers access to images of the entire set of source manuscripts. DavidG.SternisaprofessorofPhilosophyandaCollegiateFellowinthe College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. His publicationsincludeWittgenstein’sPhilosophicalInvestigations:AnIntro- duction (Cambridge, 2004) and Wittgenstein Reads Weininger (co-edited with Béla Szabados, Cambridge, 2004). Brian Rogers is an attorney in Los Angeles. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine and has published in journals including The Review of Symbolic Logic and Nordic Wittgenstein Review. GabrielCitronistheRayD.WolfePostdoctoralFellowintheDepartment of Philosophy and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He has published in journals including Mind and Philosophical Investigations. Wittgenstein Lectures, Cambridge – 1930 1933 From the Notes of G.E. Moore Edited by David G. Stern, Brian Rogers, and Gabriel Citron UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107041165 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2016 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2016 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Names:Wittgenstein,Ludwig,1889-1951.|Moore,G.E.(GeorgeEdward),1873–1958. Title:Wittgenstein:lectures,Cambridge,1930–1933:fromthenotesofG.E.Moore/edited byDavidG.Stern,BrianRogers,GabrielCitron. Description:NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2015.|Includesbibliographical referencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2015020032|ISBN9781107041165(hardback) Subjects:LCSH:Philosophy.|Moore,G.E.(GeorgeEdward),1873–1958. Classification:LCCB3376.W564A52015|DDC192—dc23LCrecordavailableat https://lccn.loc.gov/2015020032 ISBN978-1-107-04116-5Hardback Additionalresourcesforthispublicationatwww.wittgensteinsource.org CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents Acknowledgements page vi Editorial introduction ix Synoptic table of contents lxi – Lectures, Cambridge 1930 1933 From the Notes of G.E. Moore Lent Term, 1930 3 May Term, 1930 39 Michaelmas Term, 1930 65 Lent Term, 1931 101 May Term, 1931 137 May Term, 1932 155 Michaelmas Term, 1932 175 Lent Term, 1933 225 May Term, 1933 305 Appendix: Moore’s short paper on Wittgenstein on grammar 367 Biographies 379 Moore’s abbreviations 385 Bibliography 389 Index 399 Acknowledgements Gabriel Citron originally began work in 2008 on an edition of Moore’s lecture notes from May Term, 1933. When David Stern and Brian Rogers became interested in editing the full set of notes in the summer of 2009, Tom Baldwin – Moore’s literary executor – suggested that the three of us collaborate on the project. Each of us contributed equally to an initial transcription of the notes from the manuscripts and to the formation of procedures for editing and presenting the notes. All three editors made substantialcontributionstotheconversionofthatinitialtranscriptioninto thefinishedtextandthewritingoftheeditorialintroduction,buttheorder inwhichtheeditors’namesarelistedreflectstherelativedegreesofinput. David Stern and BrianRogers did the bulk of the conversion of the initial transcription into a final text, with help from Gabriel Citron, and then all threesharedinreviewingandpolishingtheeditedtext.BrianRogersedited the diagrams and took primary responsibility for editing the logical and mathematical portions of the text. David Stern did most of the work in writing the editorial introduction, biographies, and footnotes, with some portions initially drafted by Brian Rogers and Gabriel Citron. He also obtained colour scans of the manuscripts and is responsible for their appearance on the Wittgenstein Source website. Many people have been extraordinarily generous in helping us to pro- duce this volume. We would especially like to thank: Tom Baldwin, Moore’s literary executor, and Perry Moore, Moore’s heir, for permission toproduceaneditionofMoore’snotes;TomBaldwinandJosefRothhaupt, for encouraging the three editors to collaborate on this edition; Hilary Gaskin, our editor at Cambridge University Press, for encouraging us to takeonthisambitiousproject,forheradviceatseveralstagesofthework, and for her support over the years, even as we asked for a number of deadlineextensions;theSyndicsofCambridgeUniversityLibraryforkind permission to reproduce the images in this volume and the companion website;theAmericanPhilosophicalSociety,FranklinResearchGrant,and theUniversityofIowaArtsandHumanitiesInitiativeforsupportofDavid Stern’straveltoCambridgeUniversityLibraryandforfundingacquisition of high-resolution scans of Moore’s manuscripts from the Library; the School of Social Sciences and the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Acknowledgements vii ScienceattheUniversityofCalifornia,IrvineforsupportofBrianRogers’s travel to Cambridge University Library; the Old Members’ Trust, Univer- sityCollege,OxfordandtheE.O.JamesBequest,AllSoulsCollege,Oxford for support of Gabriel Citron’s travel to Cambridge and for purchasing scans and photocopies of research materials; librarians at Cambridge University Library for repeatedly scanning Moore’s lecture notes, and for help at every stage of the way, including suggesting using an ultraviolet light to read words damaged by glue; David McKitterick and Jonathan Smith,attheWrenLibrary,TrinityCollege,forhelpwithquestionsabout texts, and access to both Wittgenstein’s Nachlass and student notes taken at his lectures; Alois Pichler and Michael Biggs, for their expert advice on image editing; the Wittgenstein Source website for offering to host online images of the source manuscripts; and the University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies for sponsoring a Summer Seminar on this book. Wewouldalsoliketothankallofthefollowingfortheirassistancewith questions about editing the text: Tom Baldwin, Michael Biggs, Simon Blackburn, Katie Buehner, Bill Child, David Citron, Mauro Engelmann, John Forrester, Arthur Gibson, Naftali Goldberg, Jane Heal, Wolfgang Kienzler, Jim Klagge, Gregory Landini, Mathieu Marion, Michael Nedo, Alex Oliver, Lydia Patton, Alois Pichler, Tom Ricketts, Josef Rothhaupt, Joachim Schulte, Hans Sluga, Jonathan Smith, Carrie Swanson, Kai Wehmeier,andtheparticipantsinthe2015UniversityofIowaObermann Summer Seminar. Of course none of these people are responsible for any errors that remain. Editorial introduction 1. Overview When Wittgenstein moved to Cambridge in January 1929, he was returning to the place where – over fifteen years before – he had studied under Bertrand Russell, engaged in discussions with G.E. Moore, and begun to develop his early philosophy. Since completing the definitive expression of his early thought in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein had spent several years away from philosophical pursuits. Returning to Cambridge and re-engaging in philosophical activities marked a significant new phase in his philosophical career. This phase is now known as the ‘middle Wittgenstein’ – as it occurred between Wittgenstein’s ‘early’ work, associated with the Tractatus, and his ‘later’ work,moststronglyassociatedwiththePhilosophicalInvestigations.While these years were once regarded as merely a period of transition between Wittgenstein’searlyandlaterwork,scholarshavenowbeguntorecognize its distinctive philosophical character. Upon returning to Cambridge, Wittgenstein received a research pos- ition at TrinityCollege and immediately began to draft new philosophical writing. The next few years were very productive, resulting in a great quantity of writing,some of which has since beenpublished as Philosoph- ical Remarks, Philosophical Grammar, and The Big Typescript. In January 1930 Wittgenstein also began to give lectures, in which he further developed the themes of his ongoing research. Among those who attended these lectures was his old friend and long-time discussion partner, G.E. Moore. This volume contains the notes that Moore took of Wittgenstein’s 1930–1933 Cambridge lectures. These notes not only provide a remarkably thorough and detailed record of Wittgenstein’s first few years as a lecturer but also offer us a new perspective on the middle Wittgenstein. While other accounts of Wittgenstein’s lectures from this period have beenpublished,Moore’snotesastheyappearinthisvolumearethefullest and most reliable record of what Wittgenstein said in those classes of the early 1930s. After Wittgenstein’s death, Moore summarized his lecture notes in a series of articles entitled ‘Wittgenstein’s Lectures in 1930–33’,