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Series I. Material relating to Arthur J. Benson, 1938-1953
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Scope and Content Notes: This series contains Benson’s handwritten and typed notes of classes and seminars attended as a student at California University, Columbia, and Harvard. Some of his term papers submitted during this time, as well as later professional papers, are included. Several of the student papers include comments by his teachers, many of whom are renowned individuals in the field of philosophy of science, such as Ernest Nagel, Bertrand Russell, C.I. Lewis, and Rudolf Carnap.
The series is divided into three subseries: Class notes, Student papers, and Professional papers.
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Subseries 1. Class Notes, 1938-1947
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Scope and Content Notes: Benson organized the class notes into four volumes, in non-chronological order. This original order has been preserved.
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Vol. 1: Introduction to Philosophy, Loewenberg, University of California, 1946-1947
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Vol. 1: Methodology, Montague, Columbia, 1938-1939
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Vol. 1: Metaphysics, Hocking, Harvard, 1940
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Vol. 1: Semantics, Russell, Harvard, 1940
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Vol. 1: Analytic Philosophy, Carnap, Harvard, 1940
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Vol. 1: Empiricism, Carnap, Harvard, 1941
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Vol. 1: Naturalism, Dennes, University of California, 1946
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Vol. 1: Logic, Nagel, Columbia, 1938-1939
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Vol. 2: Logic, Marhenke, University of California, 1947
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Vol. 2: Philosophy of Science, Nagel, Columbia, 1939-1940
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Vol. 2: Philosophy of Science, Hungerland, University of California, 1947
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Vol. 2: Philosophy of Science, Marhenke, University of California, 1947
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Vol. 2: Survey of General Psychology, Brown, Harvard University, 1941
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Vol. 2: General History of Philosophy, Randall, Jr., Columbia, 1938-1939
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Vol. 2: Theory of Value, Perry, Harvard, 1940
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Vol. 2: Social Philosophy and Ethical Theory, Schneider, Columbia, 1939
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Vol. 3: Ethical Theory, Ross, Columbia, 1939
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Vol. 3: Philosophy of Art/Criticism, Columbia, 1938-1939
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Vol. 3: The Nature and Theory of History, Randall, Jr., Columbia, 1940
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Vol. 4: Plato, Wild, Harvard, 1940
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Vol. 4: Public Lectures on Aristotle, Ross, Columbia, 1939
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Vol. 4: Aristotle, Randall, Jr., Columbia, 1939
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Vol. 4: Aristotle, Hungerland, University of California, 1946
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Vol. 4: Hume, Williams, Harvard, 1941
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Vol. 4: Hume, Dennes, University of California, 1947
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Vol. 4: Kant, Lewis, Harvard, 1940
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Vol. 4: German Philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, Seward, Columbia, 1940
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Subseries 2. Student Papers, 1941-1953
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Scope and Content Notes: This subseries mostly comprises Benson’s student papers written during his time at California University, Columbia, and Harvard, and a few other items related to this time period. Included are also “Fybate” lecture notes, apparently written by Benson. Fybate was a student-founded business near the Berkeley campus that supplied typed lecture notes, usually compiled by paid graduate students, to students who were unwilling or unable to take their own notes.
The original, chronological order of the material is preserved.
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Box 2
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"Some Criticisms of an 'Inquiry into Meaning & Truth', Comments by Russell and Carnap, 1941
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“Ethics and Logical Positivism,” Comments by Carnap and Perry, 1941
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“Prolegomenon to an Empirical Ethic,” comments by Lewis, 1941
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“Prolegomenon to an Empirical Ethic,” Paper submitted for Bowen Prize, 1941
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“The Philosophy of Psychology,” Comments by Brown, 1941
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“Some Remarks on Empirical Knowledge,” 1946
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“Categories, Language and Naturalism, Comments by Dennes, 1947
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“Summary of Lenzen’s ‘Procedures of Empirical Science’,” 1946-1947
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“The Argument of Aristotle’s ‘Posterior Analytics’,” Comments by Hungerland, 1947
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“Philip Wylie’s ‘An Essay on Morals’,” Comments by Hungerland, 1947
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“Fybate Lecture Notes for Philosophy 10A," 1947-1948
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Erich Lehmann: “Notes for Use in Course Mathematics 12,” 1948
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“Place of Art in a World of Change,” Magazine-Clipping from Arts and Architecture, October 1948
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“The 1945-46 Symposium on Probability,” 1947-1948
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“Carnap’s Use of ‘True’ in
Meaning and Necessity, 1948
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Subseries 3. Professional Papers, 1949-1953
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Scope and Content Notes: The original, chronological order of the material was preserved.
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“Carnap Bibliography,” 1949
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Untitled Note on a Point in Meaning and Necessity addressed to Mates, 1948
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American Philosophical Association Meeting, Program and Abstracts, 1949
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Untitled Note on a Point in von Wright, 1949-1950
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Suggestion for a Name of Philosophy Club, 1950
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Translation from German to English of Tarski’s “The Concept of a True Sentence in Everyday Language,” 1950
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“Carnap Bibliography,” 1953
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“Comments on Rynin’s
The Logic and Semantics of Argument, 1953
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Inserts found in Books of Benson's Library
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