Epistemic Realism in Bradley and Early Moore

In this paper I attempt to show how Moore’s early emancipation from Bradley’s absolute idealism presupposes a fundamental adherence certain theses of itself. particular, argue that the idea an immediate epistemic access concepts and propositions Moore endorses in his platonic atomism (Hylton) is reworking form realism already present Bradley. Epistemic conjunction two theses: i) reality independent any constructive work human mind; ii) immediately (non-discursively) accessible knowledge. first focus on idealist phase (1897), suggesting it should be understood as at isolating thesis Bradley against Kant’s transcendental idealism. then suggest background invariant we understand later rejection monism (1898–9) through anti-psychologism. hence explore conclude with some remarks about further significance Kant.