In the abstract, Doran wrote, “Long before the revival of interest in the late 20th century in what has come to be called public philosophy G.E. Moore (1873-1958) identified and tried to resolve deep tensions between what philosophers say in the study of what we do or do not know, and what they say about knowledge outside the study in the thick of their ordinary lives.”
Doran offers four arguments against Joshua Anderson’s attempt at a vaguely Wittgensteinian makeover of Moore, arguing that Moore rejected traditional epistemological concerns altogether in “A Defence of Common Sense,” in particular, and show that it misses the mark. Moore’s arguments in defense of common sense -- against philosophical attack -- are powerful and rightly still command our attention.
Posted November 10, 2025
