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Philosophy Papers of George Tapley Whitney
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George Tapley Whitney was a philosopher, educator, and author. He was professor of philosophy at Princetin University from 1916 to 1936.
The collection consists of notes and lectures prepared by Whitney while he was a professor of philosophy at Princeton University (1916-1936), including his series of public lectures on "The Significance of Philosophy for Culture as Illustrated Out of Its History" (1921-1922), and notes on logic, problems of metaphysics, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and other philosophers.
Lecture notes are arranged roughly by subject in the following order: general notes on philosophy and philosophers; logic; problems of metaphysics; public lecture series; John Locke and Immanuel Kant; Descartes, Spinoza, and miscellaneous notes.
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Folder inventory added by Allyse Terrell '2014 in 2013.
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- 2009
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Folder contains lectures on the nature of logic, the different systems of logic, the history of logical theory from Bacon to Bosanquet, the laws of thought, and the five thoeries of judgement: Aristotle's predicative view, the class view: equational logic, nominalism, Hamilton's conceptualist view, Mill's attibutive view. There are also additional lectures on Husserl's Theory of Judgement, evolutionary view of predication, Bosanquet's thoery of judgement and the judgement of individuality.
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Folder also contains notes on the definition of logic, the nature of logical terms, propositions, and the syllogism, disjunctive judgement, the problem of objectivity, induction and truth.
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Divided into 6 parts as follows: "Introduction," "Deductive Reasoning," "Mills Criticism of Syllogistic Reasoning," "Induction," Bosanquet's theory of inference, "Nature of Truth and Some Proposed Criteria of Truth"
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Title based on handwritten note suspecting author of the term paper to be Robert C. Bretall
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A page by page commentary on the Essay together with an Introduction on the Significance of Locke
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Folder contains "Locke's Viewpoint Concerning the Problme of Knowledge", "The Self-Evident and the A Priori", "Innate Practical Principles", "Innate Practical Principles", "Locke's Relation to Descartes", and a comparison of Locke's treatment of modern theory of knowledge.
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This folder contains the following materials: "Philosophy of Kant and Aim and Scope of Course", "Kant: Caird and Kemp Smith" a a discussion of Kent's philosophy as a whole with special reference to the interpretation of Caird and Smith, "Kant's Relation to His Predecessors", "Standpoint and Problem of the Critique, notes on the similarity of Kant's inquire to Locke's, comments on Kant's Transcendental Analytic, quotations from Pringle-Pattison's Idea of God and an abstract of Sterlings article "Kant Has Not Answered Hume"
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Likely intended for an article or lecture
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Essays within the folder are believed to be other authors.
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