it was an increasingly separate subject in the early part of the twentieth century. In the first half of the twentieth century Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein were all at work in Cambridge. They were largely responsible for the rise of modern logic and the methods and results of analytic philosophy. Moral sciences was renamed philosophy in 1970. Constance Maynard was the first woman to read Moral Sciences at Cambridge, completing her studies in 1875. Philosophers currently at Cambridge The list includes both and also research-active philosophers who play a significant role in the faculty's intellectual life. Arif Ahmed Alexander Bird Simon Blackburn (emeritus) Angela Breitenbach Clare Chambers Tim Crane Raymond Geuss (emeritus) Jane Heal (emeritus) Richard Holton Rae Langton John Marenbon Alex Oliver Onora O'Neill (emeritus) Michael Potter Huw Price (emeritus) Timothy Smiley (emeritus) Past Cambridge philosophers Various philosophers have been Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy. The Knightbridge Chair was founded in 1683 and is one of the oldest established chairs in the university. Philosophers who either worked or studied in Cambridge—including some Knightbridge Professors—include: Desiderius Erasmus Francis Bacon The Cambridge Platonists, including Ralph Cudworth, Benjamin Whichcote and Henry More William Whewell John Grote Henry Sidgwick John Neville Keynes George Frederick Stout James Ward J. M. E. McTaggart Bertrand Russell William Ritchie Sorley G. E. Moore Ludwig Wittgenstein Alice Ambrose Helen Knight Margaret MacDonald (philosopher) Margaret Masterman C. D. Broad Richard Braithwaite A. C. Ewing Frank P. Ramsey Georg Henrik von Wright Susan Stebbing Casimir Lewy Jonathan Lear Iris Murdoch John Wisdom Elizabeth Anscombe Bernard Williams Amartya Sen Jonathan Bennett Judith Jarvis Thomson Ian Hacking Roger Scruton Kwame Anthony Appiah Alain de Botton Quassim Cassam Alfred North Whitehead Renford Bambrough Hugh Mellor Jimmy Altham Eric Olson Dominic Scott Serena Olsaretti Hallvard Lillehammer Susan James Peter Geach William MacAskill David Papineau A.W. Moore Arthur Balfour See also Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club Human science References External links Faculty website Analytic philosophy Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy departments in the United Kingdom