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Subseries 1. Research, Writing, and Publication, 1951-1996
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Scope and Content Notes: Butts was active as both an author and editor of publications in the field of scientific philosophy. These functions are also closely related to his role as a researcher and an academic. This subseries consists of a broad variety of materials that document these interrelated professional functions. Of particular note is the extensive correspondence with authors and editors that Butts conducted in his capacity as editor of the
Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, published by Reidel and later Kluwer Academic Publishers from 1973-1996, which is arranged chronologically in Section 1 of the subseries. This is distinct from the correspondence in Section 3, which relates to individual works that Butts personally wrote or edited. Also significant is the large number of unpublished drafts of Butts’ academic work found in Section 2.
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Section: 1. Publications Edited by Butts, 1973-1996
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Scope and Content Notes: This section contains two groups of material: correspondence and administrative records related to the publications that Butts oversaw, and reviews of those publications. The latter are listed according to the author of the work being reviewed.
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Box 8
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Western Ontario Series Contract (Reidel), 1973
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Western Ontario Series Publishing Agreements (Kluwer and Reidel), 1973-1994
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Reidel Royalty Statements, 1973-1988
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Kluwer Royalty Statements, 1990-1992
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Western Ontario Series Financial Records, 1973-1989
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Western Ontario Series General Correspondence, 1974-1994
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Reidel Correspondence, 1974-1980
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Reidel Correspondence, 1982-1984
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Reidel Correspondence, 1985-1988
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Kluwer Correspondence, 1987-1993
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Box 10
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Kluwer Correspondence, 1994
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Kluwer Correspondence, 1996
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Philosophy of Science Weekly Reports, 1983
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Philosophy of Science General Correspondence, 1978-1986
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Review of William Shea's "Basic Issues in the Philosophy of Science," 1976
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Review of Fred Wilson's "Empiricism and Darwin's Science," 1991
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Review of Henry B. Hollinger and Michael J. Zenzen's "The Nature of Irreversibility," 1985
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Review of Michael Ruse's "Is Science Sexist?"
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Review of Nicholas Rescher's "Leibniz's Metaphysics of Nature," 1981
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Review of I.B. NacNeill and G.J. Umphrey's "Stochastic Hydrology," 1987
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Review of C.A. Hooker, ed.,
Physical Theory as Logico-Operational Structure, 1979
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Review of Larry Laudan's "Science and Hypothesis," 1981
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Review of Graham Oddie's "Likeness to Truth," 1986
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Review of James Robert Brown and Jurgen Mittelstrass, eds.,
An Intimate Relation, 1989
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Review of James Robert Brown's "Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn," 1984
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Reviews of Jürgen Mittelstrass, ed.,
Enzyklopadie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie
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Review of Jürgen Mittelstrass' "Zwei Erfahrungsbegriffe"
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Review Clippings from Reidel
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Section: 2. Unpublished Drafts by Butts, 1965-1996
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"The Appraisal of Scientific Theories: A New Use of the Internal/External Distinction" (Abstract)
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“Comment on L. Jonathan Cohen, ‘Some Historical Remarks on the Baconian Conception of Probability’,” Author’s Proof
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"Experience and Experiment as Regulative Principles in Methodology," 1973
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"The Grammar of Reason"
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"The Grammar of Reason: Hamann's Challenge to Kant," 1985
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"Induction as Unification: Kant, Whewell, and Recent Developments," May 1992
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"Kant and the Problem of Locating Souls," November 1985
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"Kant on Revolutionary Changes in the Methods of the Sciences," April 1988
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"Kant's Alleged Failure to Construct the Concepts of Fundamental Forces," May 1985
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"Kant's Dialectic and the Logic of Illusion," May 1995
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"Kant's Philosophy of Science: The Transition from Metaphysics to Science," 1984
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"Kant's Proof of the Objective Reality of the Categories"
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"Kant's Realization of 'Galileo's Program'," June 1974
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"Kant's Theory of Musical Sound: An Early Exercise in Cognitive Science"
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"Herschel, John Frederick William"
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"Leibniz on Empirical Methodology," 1983
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"Leibniz on Choosing Between Rival Scientific Hypotheses," September 1990
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"Leibniz on the Side of Angels," Spring 1982
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"Metaphysical Mirages and Kant's Logic of Illusion," March 1994
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"Metaphysics, Methodology, and the Pragmatic Unity of the Science," June 1990
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"The Methodological Structure of Kant's Metaphysics of Science," 1984
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"Methodological Structure of Metaphysics of Science"
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"'Le Mouvement...n'est pas une chose entierement reele': Leibniz, Discours de Metaphysique"
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"Necessary Truth in Whewell's Theory of Science," July 1965
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"Orthodoxy in Philosophy of Science, 1930-1962: How Did It Come About?," January 1987
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"Philosophers as Professional Relativists"
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"Philosophy of Science in the Nineteenth Century"
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"Pragmatism in Theories of Induction in the Victorian Era: Herschel, Whewell, Mach, and Mill," January 1984
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"Proceeding Case by Case: Saving the Methodological Appearances," March-April 1984
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"Proceeding Case by Case: Saving the Methodological Appearances" (Appendix)
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"'A Purely Scientific Temper': Victorian Expressions of the Ideal of an Autonomous Science," April 5, 1983
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"The Reception of German Scientific Philosophy in North America: 1930-1962," March 1996
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"The Role of Arational Factors in Interpretive History: The Case of Kant and ESP," January 1983
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"Rules, Examples, and Constructions: Kant's Theory of Mathematics" (2 Proofs)
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"Science and the Humanities: A Historical and Analytical Comparison," November 1991-December 1992
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"Spencer, Herbert"
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"Two Stories About Evil: Christianity and the Creation of Witches," 1992
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Untitled, Coauthored by James R. Brown
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William Whewell's Theory of Scientific Method (Proposal and Outline)
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"Whewell on Newton's Rules of Philosophizing," Winter 1965
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"Whewell's Inductive Tables" (2 Copies)
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"Whewell, William"
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Section: 3. Works Authored and Edited by Butts: Correspondence and Administrative Documents, 1970-1986
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Scope and Content Notes: This section contains mainly correspondence concerning the specific publication projects and related administrative documents, not the drafts of the publications themselves.
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Audi, Cambridge University Press
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The Canadian Encyclopedia, New Canadian Encyclopedia Publishing
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A Companion to Metaphysics, ed. Sosa and Kim, Blackwell
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A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, ed. Newton-Smith, Blackwell
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Constructivism and Science: Essays in Recent German Philosophy, ed. Butts and Brown, Kluwer
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Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. Gillespie, Scribner
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The Epistemological Assumptions of Four Great Physicists, ed. John T. Blackmore
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"The Grammar of Reason: Hamann's Challenge to Kant" in
Synthese
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The International Who's Who of Intellectuals, International Biography Center
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Kant and the Double Government Methodology, Italian Translation by Mary Fornai
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"Kant's Theory of Musical Sound: An Early Exercise in Cognitive Science" in
Dialogue
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Logic and the Workings of the Mind, ed. Falkenstein
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Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft, trans. Butts and Friedman
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The Methodological Heritage of Newton, ed. Butts and Davis, University of Toronto Press
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"On Buchdahl's and Palter's Papers" in
Synthese 23, 1971
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"Philosophy of Science in Canada" in
Ruch Filozoficzny Kwartalnik
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Project
Pragmatik Published by Felix Meiner Verlag, 1982-1986
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Reader to Nicholas Rescher's "System of Pragmatic Idealism"
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Craig, Routledge
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Science, Decision, and Value, ed. Butts, Leach, and Pearce, Reidel
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"Sciences and Pseudosciences: An Attempt at a New Form of Demarcation" in Earman et al., ed., University of Pittsburgh Press
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"Scientific Progress: The Laudan Manifesto" in
Philosophy of Social Science
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The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia, ed. Applebaum
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"Teleology and Scientific Method in Kant's Critique of Judgement" in
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William Whewell's Theory of Scientific Method, ed. Butts, University of Pittsburgh Press/Hackett
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General Correspondence re: Publishing
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Unidentified Correspondence re: Possibility of Butts Anthology
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Reviews of
William Whewell's Theory of Scientific Method, 1969
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Reviews of
New Perspectives on Galileo, 1978
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Reviews of
Proceedings of the 5th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 1977
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Reviews of
The Methodological Heritage of Newton, 1970
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Review of
Kant's Philosophy of Physical Science, 1986
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Section: 4. Kant and the Double Government Methodology: Supersensibility and Method in Kant's Philosophy of Science: Drafts, Correspondence, and Reviews, 1982-1990
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Scope and Content Notes: This section contains drafts for Butts' published work
Kant and the Double Government Methodology, as well as related documents such as reviews, correspondence, and permission to publish requests.
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Preface I: "An Ordinary Preface," Typescript
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"Preface II: Points of Reference," Typescript
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"Preface I and II," Typescript with Handwritten Corrections
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"Introduction," Typescript
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Chapter I: "Metaphysical Explanation in Leibniz: The Monads," Typescript
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Chapter II: "Leibniz On the Side of Angels," Typescript
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Chapter III: "Kant, ESP, and the Inaugural Disseration"
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Chapter IV: "Soemmering and Euler: Space and the Soul"
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Chapter V: "Kant: Space and the Soul"
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Chapter VI: "Rules, Images and Constructions: Kan'ts Constructive Idealism"
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Chapter VII: "Two Fundamental Principles of Methodology"
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Chapter VIII: "Hypotheses in Science"
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Chapter IX: "The Restauration of Teleology"
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"Central Nervous System: Philosophers as Dieticians of the Mind"
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Table of Contents, Preface and Excerpts
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Chapter Fragments
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"Seeing Ghosts: Immanuel Kant's Investigation of Mental Disorders and the Paranormal," 1982
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Bibliography: References to Works of Kant
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Indexes and Bibliographies for KDGM
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Notes and Articles on Kant by Butts and Others
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Anonymous Review of KDGM
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Publication Guidelines by the University of Toronto Press
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Permission Requests for KDGM, 1983-1984
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Reviews of and Responses to KGDM, 1984-1990
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Section: 5. Research, 1951-1992
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Lists of Publications and Presentations, 1984-1994
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Material Related to CVs and Publication Lists
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Unidentified Bibliographies and Indices
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A Selective Bibliography on Kant by Ralph C.S. Walker, 2nd Edition, 1978
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Bibliography of Kant Literature for 1987, Part II and for 1988, Part I
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Bibliography of Kant Literature for 1989, Part IV
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Bibliography of Kant Literature for 1991, Part IV and for 1992, Part II
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A Bibliography of William Whewell, 1814-1900
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Charts and Tables
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Correspondence and Forms re: Research Grants, 1980-1982
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Edward C. Pickering and the Transformation of American Astronomy, 1840-1920 (Project Description)
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Philosophical Views of Scientific Change: The History of the Ice Age Hypothesis, 1830-1880 (Book Proposal)
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Mechanisms of Value-Change in Science (Draft Prospectus)
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Miscellaneous/Unidentified Notes
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The Criterion of Cognitive (Empirical) Significance to the Verificationist Principle (Notes)
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Mill's Argument for the Triviality of Prediction,
Logic bk. III, ch. XIV, 6 (Notes)
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Inserts 1-5 on Kant's
Critique of Pure Reason and the History of Modern Natural Science (Notes)
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A Suggested Reconstruction of the Argument of the 2nd Analogy (Notes)
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Kant: The Four Moments of a Judgement of Taste (des Geschmacksurteils) (Notes)
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Physics III (Notes)
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Epistemology in the Aufbau (Notes on a Talk by M. Friedman)
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Methodological Components of Scientific Theory (A Kantian Formulation) (Notes)
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Notes on Similarity and Equality, 1982
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Notes on Specification, 1983
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Introductory Remarks on
Critique of Judgement (Notes)
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Kant, Hamann, Schelling, and Jung: The Rhetoric and Psychology of Symbolism (Notes)
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Van Fraassen and Realism/Anti-Realism (Notes)
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Bas's Constructive Empiricism (Notes)
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Socialism (Notes)
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Analysis of Meanings of Two Terms Prominent in Social and Political Thinking (Dr. Ward) (Notes)
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Bentham (Notes), September 29, 1951
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J.S. Mill - Essays on Nature, Utility of Religion (1859), and Theism (1870) (Notes)
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The Perennial Social Tension: 'I' and/or 'We': An Examination Into the Pertinence of J.S. Mills'
Essay on Liberty (Notes)
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Herbert Spencer,
First Principles (1864) (Notes)
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Herbert Spencer,
Transcendental Philosophy (1857) (Notes)
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J.S. Mill -
System of Logic ("The Canons of Induction" - bk. III, ch. VIII) (Notes)
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J.S. Mill,
On Liberty (Outline of Contents)
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J.S. Mill -
On the Logic of the Moral Sciences (Book VI, Logic) (Notes)
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Mechanics - Newton, Mach, Kant (Notes)
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Leibniz Cohesion (Notes)
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The Conceptual Framework of Kant's Philosophy of Science (Notes)
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Letter to Qualiton Imports, Ltd. re: Glass Harmonica Recordings, 1995
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Introduction for David Savan: "Postmodernist Philosophy and Nietzsche" - University of Western Ontario, March 1987
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Comments on L.L. Laudan, "William Whewell on the Consilience of Inductions"
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Critique of Pure Reason 1781-1981, Faculty of Arts, March 10, 1981
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The Worlds of Kant - Leibniz Conference, November 1982
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Comments on Gregory Good, "Method, Science, and the Historical Approach" - History of Science Society, Norwalk, CT, October 1983
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Comment: Glenn Hartz, "Kant's Mature Metaphysic of Matter" - American Philosophical Association, St. Louis, MO, May 1986
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Comments on Michael Ruse, "William Whewell and the Argument from Design" - Canadian Philosophical Association, June 1974
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Comments on David Wilson "A Physicist's Alternative to Materialism" - History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Norwalk, CT, October 1983
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Comments on Paul Theerman "Maxwell and Method" - History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Norwalk, CT, October 1983
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Research Notes on Whewell: Notebook I
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Research Notes on Whewell: Notebook II
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Research Notes on Whewell: Notebook III
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Research Notes on Whewell: Notebook IV
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Research Notes on Whewell: Notebook V
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