MOORE, George Edward (1873-1958). Philosopher.
Autograph testimonial, 1 page 4to, 86 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, 24 April 1935. A certificate issued as supervisor to the philosopher Alice Ambrose during her Cambridge studies.

'I have been Supervisor to Miss Alice Ambrose for more than two years, during which she has been researching for the Ph.D. degree on Finitism in Mathematics. She has shown herself to be an industrious & intelligent student, very well aware of the difficulties of the subject on which she is engaged & very perservering in her efforts to overcome them. ...'

'Alice Ambrose (1906-2001) was born in Lexington, Illinois and studied philosophy and mathematics at Millikin University. After completing her PhD at the University of Wisconsin in 1932, she went to Cambridge University to study with G. E. Moore and Wittgenstein, where she earned a second PhD in 1938. Having become a close disciple of Wittgenstein, she later related her association with him in Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy and Language (1972), a volume co-edited with her husband Morris Lazerowitz. She was one of a select group of students to whom Wittgenstein dictated the so-called Blue and Brown Books, which outline the transition in Wittgenstein's thought between his two major works, Tractatus Logico-philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations. Wittgenstein terminated their association abruptly in 1935 when Ambrose decided, with encouragement from Moore, to publish an article entitled "Finitism in Mathematics" in the philosophical journal Mind which was intended to give an account of Wittgenstein's position on the subject.' [Wikipedia, 2006]
Together with another certificate for Miss Ambrose, from her tutor, A.B. Dale, listing Wittgenstein among her professors.
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