Today the Manuscripts Department launches its Image of the Month project. The Image of the Month will feature single images of interesting objects or information […]
Continue reading »It’s known that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein fell out with one of his most beloved students, the American logician Alice Ambrose. The source of the […]
Continue reading »Fragments of history frequently emerge out of the collections kept in the Manuscripts Reading Room. While cataloguing the GE Moore collection, I stumbled across this […]
Continue reading »GE Moore was famous during his lifetime for his book Principia Ethica (1903), a founding text of analytic philosophy. Those familiar with Moore only through […]
Continue reading »“In the swirl of the dark waters sighs the Spirit of the Sea. The moon has set. From out of the darkness flashes the scudding […]
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