Alice Ambrose was natural around Decatur, Illinois & studied philosophy and maths at Millikin University. Fallowing completing her PhD at a University of Wisconsin, she went to Cambridge University to study with G. E. Moore and Wittgenstein. Getting be the close adherent of Wittgenstewithin, she late related her association by using him in Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy & Language (1972), the volume co-edited by owning her married man Morris Lazerowitz. She was one of a take class action of students to whom Wittgenstearound dictated a therefore-supposed Blue & Light brown Books, which outline a transition in Wittgenstein's thought between his ii major works, Tractatus Logico-philosophicus & Philosophical Investigations. Wittgensteinside terminated their association suddenly in 1935 while Ambrose decided, using encouragement from either Moore, to publish an article entitled "Finitism in Mathematics" in the philosophic journal Mind which was meant to give an account of Wittgenstein's position on the subject.

From either 1937 Ambrose taught at Smith College, and withinside 1964 was appointed to the chair in philosophy there. She worked mainly around logic & mathematical philosophy, writing the primer on the subject by owning her hubby which became the widely-utilized schoolbook & was referred to as "Ambrose and Lazerowitz".