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Subseries 1. Handwritten Notes, 1948-1980
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Scope and Content Notes: These materials are subdivided into five categories: calculations, lectures, letters, manuscripts, and miscellaneous. These handwritten materials appear to be the earliest drafts of Sellars's philosophical works, which were later dictated to a secretary. Due to the nature of Sellars's handwriting, this material is rather difficult to decipher. However, these materials could provide researchers with insight into Sellars's thought processes. Most of these notes are written on yellow legal pads and vary in length from a few sheets to an entire tablet's worth of notes. When possible, the files are arranged alphabetically by published title. Sometimes Sellars supplied the title, but more commonly the titles are archivist assigned. More specific descriptions of each of the five categories are listed below.
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Section: Calculations
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Scope and Content Notes: The calculations often contain a sequence of philosophical proofs that generally do not contain a narrative explanation. They tend to be less dense than the lectures or manuscripts and usually consist of only a few pages.
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Box 14
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Logic of Up to 5, 1948-1979
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A is B, 1948-1979
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Shall any of us do ∞, 1948-1979
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Critique of Chisholm, 1948-1979
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(∃X)xEK, 1948-1979
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Is a PR-in-G, 1948-1979
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Chicago is Large, 1948-1979
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[]= unconditional assertability [in CS], 1948-1979
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That P is in C implies that Shall [Pdoing A], 1948-1979
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Consider C's Example, 1979
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True ('P')=P, 1979
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Thus Every Two, 1948-1979
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Show 'a' exists x=a, 1948-1979
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Rule, 1948-1979
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Points to Pick Up, 1948-1979
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Note that 'S(A)' is U, 1948-1979
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Hector, 1948-1979
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a f=q=g (x) ty>qx, 1948-1979
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Heterological, 1948-1979
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Meaning Not a Relation, 1948-1979
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"red"="ruddy", 1948-1979
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Towards a..., 1948-1979
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Every Property of the Object Must, 1948-1979
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The sentence consisting of an INDCON..., 1948-1979
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"Philosophical Perspective," 1948-1979
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Basic particulars, 1948
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Belief is not a..., 1948-1979
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Substituting quantification with truth, 1948-1979
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"P fa is 'fa' SA if so, why?", 1948-1979
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All element concepts of [i, 1948-1979
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3/4 A is B, 1948-1979
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P can V, 1948-1979
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As conceived in manifest image, 1948-1979
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If Jones wants x he ought to do A, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Untitled, 1948-1979
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Section: Lectures
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Scope and Content Notes: The lecture files contain the early drafts of Sellars remarks at speaking engagements such as lectures, symposiums, meetings, and conferences. The lecture files tend to be the bulkiest of the handwritten notes and it is not uncommon for these lecture notes to also serve as the preliminary drafts for Sellars’s manuscripts.
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Box 15
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"Basic Representational States for Mental Events Symposium," 1980
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"Being and Seeming to Be," 1959
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"Berkeley and Descartes: Reflections on the 'New Way of Ideas' ," 1974
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"Conceptual Change," 1971
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"Considerations and Reconsiderations about Intentionality," 1965
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"Elementary Theory of Reduction," 1980
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"Grammar and Existence: A Preface to Ontology," c. 1958
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"Ideal Intellectual Institute," undated
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"Kant and the Thing-in-Itself," 1965
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Leibniz paper for Columbus meeting, undated
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"Metaphysics and the Concept of a Person," 1967
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"The Myth of the Given," 1956
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"Naturalism and Ontology," 1974
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"Naturalism and Process," undated
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Box 16
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"Ontology for Wittgenstein's Tractatus," undated
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"'Ought' and Moral Principles", undated
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"Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man," c. 1962
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"Practical Reasoning," 1963
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"Problems of Realism: Conceptual Realism," 1965
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"Problems of Realism: Scientific Realism," 1967
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"Soul as a Craftsman," 1962
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"The Structure of Knowledge," c. 1971
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"this I or he or it (the thing) which thinks," c. 1970
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"Value and Action," 1968
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Lecture on philosophical logic at the University of Western Ontario, 1967
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Seminar in contemporary problems presented at Illinois, 1971
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Symposium on action at the University of Chicago, 1967
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Symposium on induction, undated
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Unidentified lecture notes, undated
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Section: Letters
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Scope and Content Notes: The letter files contain the early drafts of letters Sellars wrote to various individuals. The letters range in length from a single sheet to almost twenty pages. They vary in content from recommendations to philosophical commentary. Where possible, they are arranged alphabetically by recipient.
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Box 17
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Dear Annette, undated
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Dear Ausanio, undated
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Dear Bradie, undated
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Dear Bruce, undated
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Dear Bynum, undated
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Dear Castaneda, 1961
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Dear Donald, undated
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Dear Dorothy, undated
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Dear Fred, undated
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Dear Mr. Ignabowsky, undated
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Dear Jack, undated
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Dear Jay, undated
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Dear Mike, undated
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Dear Professor, undated
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Dear Rosenthal, undated
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Dear University of Arizona Philosophy Department, undated
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Dear Vlastos, undated
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Dear Unidentified, undated
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RE: Kurt Baier, undated
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RE: Van Fraassen, undated
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Section: Manuscripts
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Scope and Content Notes: The manuscript files contain the early drafts of manuscripts, many of which went on to become published works by Sellars. Therefore, these files are very closely tied to the prepublication materials located in the next subseries. The handwritten files often contain fragments of articles, rather than the complete work. Where possible, they are arranged alphabetically by published title, rather than the working titles.
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"A. B. C. Weighs 3 Pounds," undated
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"Abstract Entities," 1962
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"Abstract Entities and the Russell Paradox," 1962
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"Acquaintance and Description Again," undated
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"Acquaintance and the Subject," undated
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"Actions and Events," undated
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"Actions are events - what are events?," undated
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"Adverbial," undated
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"Appearance and Belief," undated
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"Are There Abstract Objects?," undated
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"Are There Non-Deductive Logics?," undated
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"Aristotle's Metaphysics: An Interpretation," 1958-1961
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"Autobiographical Reflections," 1973
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"Behavior and Perceptual Consciousness," undated
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"Behaviorism, Language, and Meaning," undated
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"Being and Being Known," undated
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"Belief and the Expression of Belief," undated
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"Categorical Assertability," undated
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"Categorical Saying and Showing," undated
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"Change of Concept is Change of Belief," undated
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"Chisholm Etc.," undated
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"Classes as Abstract Entities and the Russell Paradox," undated
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"Clues on C to D," undated
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"Comments on 'Justification of Limit Interpretation," undated
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"Comments on May Brodbeck's 'Mental and Physical," c. 1965
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"Conceptual Change," undated
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"Conditional Promises and Conditional Intentions," undated
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"Ad Cornman", undated
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"Could (and Should) We be Bound to Use the Language of Physical Theory as our Perception Language," undated
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"Counterfactuals, Dispositions, and the Causal Modalities," undated
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"Dewey's Experience and the Manifest Image," undated
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"Descartes/Berkeley III," undated
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"Distinguish IPMs, Reflections, Judgment about IPMs," undated
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"Donagan, Ad Alan's Paper," undated
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"The Double Knowledge Approach to the Mind-Body Problem," undated
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"'($f) ($x) fx' implies '($x) XEL," undated
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"Empiricism and Abstract Entities," undated
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Box 19
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"Empiricism and Philosophy of Mind 'Another Language," 1956
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"Essays in Philosophy and its History," undated
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"Events," undated
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"Fatalism and Determinism," undated
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"Form and Content in Ethical Theory," undated
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"General Structure of Argument," undated
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"Givenness and Explanatory Coherence," undated
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"History of Materialism," undated
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"Idea and Object," undated
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"The Identity Approach to the Mind-Body Problem," undated
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"If 'P' implies 'Q' then 'Shall [P]' imply 'Shall [Q]," undated
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"Imperatives, Intentions, and the Logic of 'Ought'," undated
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"In Praise of Something," undated
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Box 20
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"Induction as Vindication," undated
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"Inference and Causation," undated
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"The Intentional Realism of Everett Hall," undated
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"Intentionality (Berkeley)," undated
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"Introduction to Philosophical Thinking," undated
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"Is Consciousness Physical?," undated
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"Is There a Sense of "Red" in which a 'Crimson' can be a 'Red'," undated
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"Issue of Emergence," undated
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"John or Jones Came," undated
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"Kant," undated
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"Kant's Transcendental Idealism," undated
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"Language...and Truth," undated
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"The Language of Theories," undated
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"Leibnitz," undated
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"Leibnitz on Space as a Phenomenon," undated
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"Leibnitz's Rationalism: Scaffolding for a Reconstruction," undated
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"The Lion," undated
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"Logic and Practical Reasoning," undated
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"Logical Empiricism," undated
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"Logical Subjects and Physical Objects," undated
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"Macbeth Thinks that is a Dollar," undated
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"Materialism," undated
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"Materialism and Emergence," undated
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"Meditations Leibnitziennes," 1958
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"Mental Causes," undated
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"Mental Events," undated
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"Mind, Meaning, and Behavior," 1952
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"Moral Reasoning," undated
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"More on Picturing," undated
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"More on 'Shall [p]," undated
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"Nagel and Feyerabend on Theories," undated
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"On Knowing the Better and Doing the Worse," 1969
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"On the Introduction of Abstract Entities," undated
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"Ontology and the Philosophy of Mind in Russell," undated
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"Ontology, the A Priori, and Kant," undated
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"Orange is the Color of A," undated
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"Pain," undated
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"The Paradox of Analysis: A Neo-Fregean Approach," undated
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"Perceptual Consciousness," undated
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"Practical Reasoning," undated
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"Practical Truth," undated
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"Pragmatic Perspectives," undated
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"Preliminary - Leibnoza," undated
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"Prichard" (critique of Prichard's book), undated
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24 |
"Putting Man into the Scientific Image," undated
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"Q because P," undated
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"Realism and the New Way of Words," undated
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"Reason and the Art of Living in Plato," undated
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"Reasoning about Values," undated
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"Reasons and Commands," undated
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"Reflections on the Theory of Meaning," undated
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"Reply to Frank Johnson and Michael Tye," undated
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"Reply to Marras," undated
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"Reply to Quine," undated
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Reviews, undated
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"Science and Metaphysics," undated
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"Scientific Realism or Irenic Instrumentalism," undated
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"Scientific Realism Revisited," undated
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"Second Analogy," undated
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"Sensa or Sensings," 1976
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"Sense Impressions," undated
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"Sensings or Sensa," undated
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"Sensings, Sensation," undated
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"Shall We," undated
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"Sicha," undated
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"Some Problems about Belief," undated
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"Some Problems about Volition," undated
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"Some Reflections on Language Games," undated
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"Some Reflections on Method in Philosophy," undated
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"Some Reflections on Perceptual Consciousness," undated
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"Sortal Predication Versus Adjective (or Verbal) Predication," undated
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"Studies in Naturalism," undated
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"A Study in Substance", undated
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"Substance and Form in Aristotle", undated
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"Symmetry of Explanation and Predication", undated
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"Theory, Qualities, Sensa, Laws," undated
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"Theory of Categories," undated
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"Thought and Action," undated
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"Time and the World Order," undated
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"Tom and Dick Fought," undated
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"Tom, Dick and Mary are Friends," undated
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"Topics in Aune," undated
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"Towards a Theory of Predication," undated
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"Towards a Theory of the Categories," undated
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"Truth," undated
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"Truth and Correspondence," undated
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"Truth: Some Classical Problems Revisited," undated
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"Two Accounts of Self-Presentingness," undated
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"Varieties of Phenomenalism," undated
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"Vlastos and the Third Man," undated
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"Vlastos and the Third Man: A Rejoinder," undated
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"Volitions Reaffirmed," undated
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"W[ittgenstein]'s T[ractatus] as a Theory of Representational Systems," undated
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And thus ordinary sense..., undated
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Assert that a is..., undated
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Being is abstract..., undated
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C's depiction of materialism..., undated
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Consider the..., undated
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Could one have done otherwise?, undated
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Curiously enough, in order to escape..., undated
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Explain idea that the present is..., undated
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For even if, as I do, one finds a reference to..., undated
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For Kant the reproduction imagination works by..., undated
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For scientific objects and their properties..., undated
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The fundamental danger of the form..., undated
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The heading of this section is not..., undated
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How do all my recent notes relate to..., undated
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The idea of a certain state..., undated
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Identity of mind..., undated
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If we look more closely at..., undated
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In section VII..., undated
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In what sense does W, being square consist in.., undated
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It is important to note the when Berkeley..., undated
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Jones believes Wp, undated
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LL is Probable, undated
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Miscellaneous, undated
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Now the above account of meaning statements..., undated
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Pad B, part two, undated
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Pain as a confused..., undated
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Realism, 1a. Cornman's realism, undated
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Redness being (having) the color of fire engines, undated
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Reference to..., undated
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Resemblance is a logical..., undated
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32 |
Review Kant on..., undated
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The simplest answer would be to deny..., undated
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34 |
The structure of the answer is given by the..., undated
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35 |
...themes of likener, undated
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There is no possible world in which..., undated
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We must now face the question..., undated
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Whitehead: manifest..., undated
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Unidentifiable, undated
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Section: Miscellaneous
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Scope and Content Notes: The miscellaneous files contain documents that were either too difficult to decipher and assign to a category, or contained a combination of several types of documents. The most notable of these items are the two "dated philosophical journals." These journals cover the period from 1949 to 1956, a period which is generally undocumented by the other handwritten notes. These notebooks have regular dated entries and appear to be a professional diary. The first notebook summarizes his philosophical activities such as attendance at lectures, progress on his manuscripts, and what he plans to do next. It also contains philosophical musings. These journals feature large left-hand margins, which Sellars sometimes utilized for critiquing his earlier thoughts. The second journal is much like the first, but speaks less to his overall activities and focuses predominately on the development of philosophical arguments. These philosophical writings appear to be the key arguments from his papers, lectures, and letters and often feature large excerpted sections.
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Box 25
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Dated philosophical journals, 1949-1956
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03-04 |
Mixture of seemingly unrelated items, undated
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05-06 |
Teaching-related materials, undated
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7 |
Works in progress, undated
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