Muirhead Library of Philosophy; G. E. Moore; Preface; Chapter I Are the Characteristics of Particular Things Universal or Particular?; Chapter II A Defence of Common Sense; Chapter III Facts and Propositions; Chapter IV Is Goodness a Quality?; Chapter V Imaginary Objects; Chapter VI Is Existence a Predicate?; Chapter VII Proof of an External World; Chapter VIII Russell's 'Theory of Descriptions'; Chapter IX Four Forms of Scepticism; Chapter X Certainty; Chapter XI Wittgenstein's Lectures in 1930-33;

This is Volume XVII of twenty-two in a series on 20th Century Philosophy. Originally published in 1959, it is a contribution to the History of Modern Philosophy under the heads: first of different Schools of Thought-Sensationalist, Realist, Idealist, Intuitivist; secondly of different Subjects-Psychology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Theology. This is a collection of papers by George Edward Moore, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of Trinity College in the University of Cambridge.