George Edward "
G. E."
Moore (; 4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher. He was, with
Bertrand Russell,
Ludwig Wittgenstein, and (before them)
Gottlob Frege, one of the founders of the
analytic tradition in philosophy. Along with Russell, he led the turn away from
idealism in British philosophy, and became well known for his advocacy of
common sense concepts, his contributions to
ethics,
epistemology, and
metaphysics, and "his exceptional personality and moral character." He was Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Cambridge, highly influential among (though not a member of) the
Bloomsbury Group, and the editor of the influential journal
Mind. He was elected a fellow of the
British Academy in 1918. He was a member of the
Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1894 to 1901, and the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club.