G. E. Moore
George Edward Moore OM FBA (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the initiators of analytic philosophy. He and Russell began deemphasizing the idealism which was then prevalent among British philosophers and became known for advocating common-sense concepts and contributing to ethics, epistemology and metaphysics. He was said to have an "exceptional personality and moral character". Ray Monk later dubbed him "the most revered philosopher of his era".
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| Born | George Edward Moore 4 November 1873 Hastings Lodge, Victoria Road, Dulwich Wood Park, Upper Norwood, London, England |
| Died | 24 October 1958 (aged 84) Evelyn Nursing Home, Cambridge, England |
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| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1896) |
| Spouse | Dorothy Ely |
| Children | Nicholas Moore, Timothy Moore |
| Relatives | Thomas Sturge Moore (brother) |
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| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy Consequentialism |
| Institutions | Trinity College, Cambridge Aristotelian Society (president, 1918–19) Ethical Union (president, 1935–36) |
| Academic advisors | James Ward |
| Doctoral students | Casimir Lewy |
| Other notable students | R. B. Braithwaite |
Main interests | Philosophy of language |
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As Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, he influenced but abstained from the Bloomsbury Group, an informal set of intellectuals. He edited the journal Mind. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles from 1894 to 1901, a fellow of the British Academy from 1918, and was chairman of the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club in 1912–1944. As a humanist, he presided over the British Ethical Union (now Humanists UK) in 1935–1936.