The Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club, founded in October 1878, is a philosophy discussion group that meets weekly at the University of Cambridge during term time. Speakers are invited to prese
The club has met at Newnham College since 2014.
Members of the Moral Science Club, Cambridge, c. 1913. In the front row, third from left, is James Ward; to the right of him, Bertrand Russell; next to Russell is W. E. Johnson; in the second row, on the far right, is McTaggart; and third from the right, G. E. Moore
Wittgenstein (second from right) in 1920
Minutes of the poker-waving meeting
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.
Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club
…Cambridge. Members have included many of British philosophy's top names, such as Henry Sidgwick, J.M.E. McTaggart, Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and several papers regarded as founding documents of various schools of thoughts had their first airing at a club meeting. Moore's "The Nature of…
Wittgenstein in 1929
Karl Wittgenstein was one of the richest men in Europe.
Palais Wittgenstein, the family home, around 1910
Ludwig, c. 1890s