This book remedies the absence in the history of analytic philosophy of a detailed examination of G. E. Moore’s philosophical views as they developed between 1894 and 1902. This period saw the inauguration of analytic philosophy through the work of Moore and Bertrand Russell. Moore’s early views are examined in detail through unpublished archival material, including surviving letters, diaries, notes of lectures attended, papers for Cambridge societies, and drafts of early work, in order to revise the established view that the origin of analytic philosophy at Cambridge was an abrupt split...

This book repairs and revives theTheory of Knowledgeresearch program of Russell’sPrincipiaera. Chapter 1, 'Introduction and Overview', explains the program’s agenda. Inspired by the non-Fregean logicism ofPrincipia Mathematica, it endorses the revolution within mathematics presenting it as a study of relations. The synthetic apriorilogic ofPrincipiais the essence of philosophy considered as a science which exposes the dogmatisms about abstract particulars and metaphysical necessities that create prisons that fetter the mind. Incipient inTheProblems of Philosophy, the program’s...