British Philosophy in the Mid-Century

First published in 1957, reissuing the second edition of 1966 here, British Philosophy in the Mid-Century provides an authoritative review of some of the outstanding developments in British philosophy at the time. The papers included here had their origin in a course of lectures at Cambridge arranged by the British Council, but many of the contributions have been revised and extended to present the latest views of the authors. Of outstanding interest is a contribution written especially for this volume by G.E. Moore who has exercised so profound an influence not only on the theory of the subject with which this paper is concerned but also on the whole course of philosophical thought in Britain and elsewhere. This new edition contains, in addition to 'Postscripts' by many of the contributors, two papers on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein by Alice Ambrose and Morris Lazerowitz.

Foreword by E.W.F. Tomlin Editorial Preface to First Edition Preface to the Second Edition 1. The Local Historical Background of Contemporary British Philosophy 2. Recent Developments in British Ethical Thought 3. Some Trends in the Philosophy of Mind 4. Some Types of Philosophical Thinking 5. Probability and Induction 6. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Experiment and Proof 7. Visual Sense-Data 8. Perception 9. Theory of Meaning 10. The Interpretation of Language: Words and Concepts 11. Metaphysical and Ideographic Language 12. Some Problems of Modern Aesthetics 13. Some Philosophical Problems of Cosmology