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Philosophy Papers of George Tapley Whitney

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Call Number:
C0448
Repository:
Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division
Extent:
5 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Philosophy Papers of George Tapley Whitney, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Date:
1920-1936 (inclusive)
Creator:
Whitney, George Tapley, 1871-1938
Form:
Lectures -- 20th century. and Philosophers -- New Jersey -- Princeton.
Abstract:
Consists of notes and lectures prepared by George Tapley Whitney while he was a professor of philosophy at Princeton University (1916-1936).

Whitney, George Tapley, 1871-1938

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.

Folder inventory added by Allyse Terrell '2014 in 2013.

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Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2009
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Collection Inventory

Lecture on Greek Philosophy through Heracleitus, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Incomplete Notes on Greek Philosophy through Callicles, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Greek Philosophers Pluto and Aristotle, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

History of Philosophy, Spinoza's Plan of Salvation, the Philosophy of Reid and Recent French Philosophy, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Various Notes on the Value of the History of Philosophy and Various Philosophers, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

The History of Philosophy from the Neoplatonists through Kant, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lecture Notes on the History of Philosophy from Pythagoras to Bruno, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lectures on Logic and Judgement, 1928-1931. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

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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1 folder

Logic, Knowledge, and Thought, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Papers on the Relation of Fact and Theory, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Notes on Hume's Theory of Reasoning, the Coherence Theory, and Russell's Theory of Inference, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

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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1 folder

Notebook Containing Lectures on Logic, 1930. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

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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1 folder

Notebook on Logic, Knowledge and Truth, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Notes on Logic and Thought, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Logic: Introduction", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lectures on Ethics, undated. 3 folders.
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3 folders

Problems of Metaphysics, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lectures 1-6 of The Significance of Philosophy for Culture as Illustrated Out of its History, 1921-1922. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Lectures 7-12 of The Significance of Philosophy for Culture as Illustrated Out of its History, 1921-1922. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Term Paper of Graduate Student Robert C. Bretall, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Title based on handwritten note suspecting author of the term paper to be Robert C. Bretall

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1 folder

Lecture Notes on Metaphysics: "Fundamental Problems", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Part I of Book on Locke's Essay, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

A page by page commentary on the Essay together with an Introduction on the Significance of Locke

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1 folder

Part II of Book on Locke's Essay, undated. 2 folders.
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2 folders

Parts III and Part IV of Book on Locke's Essay, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Notes and Papers on Locke, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

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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1 folder

Notes on Kant, undated. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

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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2 folders

Notes for an Article on the Freedom of the Individual, 1914-1918. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Material for Book on the Value of Philosophy as Evidenced in Its History, 1914-1918. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Notes on Rousseau, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Likely intended for an article or lecture

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1 folder

Notes on Justice, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Notebook on the Problem of Causation, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Various Notes, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

"Freedom in Spinoza", "The Age of John Locke" and an Untitled Essay, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Essays within the folder are believed to be other authors.

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1 folder

Syllabi and Outlines of Lectures in Philosophy Delivered at Princeton, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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