Repository
ULS Archives & Special Collections
Title Arthur J. Benson Papers Creator
Benson, Arthur J.
Collection Number ASP.1999.02 Extent
2.7 Linear Feet
(7 document boxes)
Date 1904-1994 Date 1935-1994 Abstract Arthur J. Benson, an associate professor at California State University at Los Angeles, was a student and later friend and colleague of Rudolf Carnap. This collection holds some papers of his student and professional years, as well as manuscripts and correspondence relating to Rudolf Carnap's life and work. Language
English
. Author Brigitta Arden. Publisher ULS Archives & Special Collections Address University of Pittsburgh Library Systemhttp://library.pitt.edu/archives-special-collections Biography
Arthur J. Benson, an associate professor of philosophy at California State University at Los Angeles from 1962 to 1992, was first a student and later colleague and friend of Rudolf Carnap. For this reason, he received and maintained material related to Carnap's research and writing. Benson also compiled a well-known, complete bibliography of Carnap's works for the Schilpp volume on Carnap.
During his student years at UCLA, Columbia, and Harvard, Benson was taught by many recognized names in the field of philosophy and philosophy of science. Items from Benson's student and professional years as well as documents related to Rudolf Carnap were selected and bequeathed to the Archives of Scientific Philosophy after Benson's death.
Scope and Content Notes The collection contains some of Benson's student notes of classes and seminars attended at University of California at Los Angeles, Columbia, and Harvard, as well as some of his term papers submitted during this time, and later professional papers. 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. Various drafts of Benson's often referred to complete bibliography of Carnap's works are among Benson's professional papers.
The second part of the collection consists of material relating to Rudolf Carnap, such as correspondence between Carnap and Benson, notes and manuscript drafts authored by Carnap, and material related to Carnap's publications, such as translations and posthumous publication work by Benson. Included are also undated black and white photographic prints of Rudolf Carnap in class, probably taken during his time at UCLA, and audio recordings of German radio broadcasts in honor of Carnap's 100th birthday, as well as of speeches from the Carnap memorial gathering in 1971.
Related Material
Rudolf Carnap Papers, ASP.1974.01, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Brigitta Arden in February 2009.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Manetta R. Benson on June 2, 1999.
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into two series as outlined below. The original order of the material was preserved, such as the topical arrangement of Benson's student papers.
Series I. Material relating to Arthur J. Benson
Series II. Material relating to Rudolf Carnap
Copyright
The University of Pittsburgh holds the property rights to the material in this collection, but the copyright may still be held by the original creator/author. Researchers are therefore advised to follow the regulations set forth in the U.S. Copyright Code when publishing, quoting, or reproducing material from this collection without the consent of the creator/author or that go beyond what is allowed by fair use.
Previous Citation
Arthur J. Benson Papers, 1935-1994, ASP.1999.02, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh
Preferred Citation
Arthur J. Benson Papers, 1935-1994, ASP.1999.02, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System
Subjects Corporate Names University of California, Los Angeles -- Faculty Personal Names Sellars, Wilfrid Feigl, Herbert Carnap, Rudolf Benson, Arthur J. Genres Manuscripts for publication Lecture notes Correspondence Other Subjects Philosophy Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century Container List Series I. Material relating to Arthur J. Benson , 1938-1953 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.
Subseries 1. Class Notes , 1938-1947 Scope and Content Notes Benson organized the class notes into four volumes, in non-chronological order. This original order has been preserved.
Vol. 1: Introduction to Philosophy, Loewenberg, University of California , 1946-1947 Containers box 1 , folder 1 Vol. 1: Methodology, Montague, Columbia , 1938-1939 Containers box 1 , folder 2 Vol. 1: Metaphysics, Hocking, Harvard , 1940 Containers box 1 , folder 3 Vol. 1: Semantics, Russell, Harvard , 1940 Containers box 1 , folder 4 Vol. 1: Analytic Philosophy, Carnap, Harvard , 1940 Containers box 1 , folder 5 Vol. 1: Empiricism, Carnap, Harvard , 1941 Containers box 1 , folder 6 Vol. 1: Naturalism, Dennes, University of California , 1946 Containers box 1 , folder 7 Vol. 1: Logic, Nagel, Columbia , 1938-1939 Containers box 1 , folder 8 Vol. 2: Logic, Marhenke, University of California , 1947 Containers box 1 , folder 9 Vol. 2: Philosophy of Science, Nagel, Columbia , 1939-1940 Containers box 1 , folder 10 Vol. 2: Philosophy of Science, Hungerland, University of California , 1947 Containers box 1 , folder 11 Vol. 2: Philosophy of Science, Marhenke, University of California , 1947 Containers box 1 , folder 12 Vol. 2: Survey of General Psychology, Brown, Harvard University , 1941 Containers box 1 , folder 13 Vol. 2: General History of Philosophy, Randall, Jr., Columbia , 1938-1939 Containers box 1 , folder 14 Vol. 2: Theory of Value, Perry, Harvard , 1940 Containers box 1 , folder 15 Vol. 2: Social Philosophy and Ethical Theory, Schneider, Columbia , 1939 Containers box 1 , folder 16 Vol. 3: Ethical Theory, Ross, Columbia , 1939 Containers box 1 , folder 17 Vol. 3: Philosophy of Art/Criticism, Columbia , 1938-1939 Containers box 1 , folder 18 Vol. 3: The Nature and Theory of History, Randall, Jr., Columbia , 1940 Containers box 1 , folder 19 Vol. 4: Plato, Wild, Harvard , 1940 Containers box 1 , folder 20 Vol. 4: Public Lectures on Aristotle, Ross, Columbia , 1939 Containers box 1 , folder 21 Vol. 4: Aristotle, Randall, Jr., Columbia , 1939 Containers box 1 , folder 22 Vol. 4: Aristotle, Hungerland, University of California , 1946 Containers box 1 , folder 23 Vol. 4: Hume, Williams, Harvard , 1941 Containers box 1 , folder 24 Vol. 4: Hume, Dennes, University of California , 1947 Containers box 1 , folder 25 Vol. 4: Kant, Lewis, Harvard , 1940 Containers box 1 , folder 26 Vol. 4: German Philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, Seward, Columbia , 1940 Containers box 1 , folder 27 Subseries 2. Student Papers , 1941-1953 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.
"Some Criticisms of an 'Inquiry into Meaning & Truth', Comments by Russell and Carnap , 1941 Containers box 2 , folder 1 "Ethics and Logical Positivism," Comments by Carnap and Perry , 1941 Containers box 2 , folder 2 "Prolegomenon to an Empirical Ethic," comments by Lewis , 1941 Containers box 2 , folder 3 "Prolegomenon to an Empirical Ethic," Paper submitted for Bowen Prize , 1941 Containers box 2 , folder 4 "The Philosophy of Psychology," Comments by Brown , 1941 Containers box 2 , folder 5 "Some Remarks on Empirical Knowledge" , 1946 Containers box 2 , folder 6 "Categories, Language and Naturalism, Comments by Dennes , 1947 Containers box 2 , folder 7 "Summary of Lenzen's 'Procedures of Empirical Science'" , 1946-1947 Containers box 2 , folder 8 "The Argument of Aristotle's 'Posterior Analytics'," Comments by Hungerland , 1947 Containers box 2 , folder 9 "Philip Wylie's 'An Essay on Morals'," Comments by Hungerland , 1947 Containers box 2 , folder 10 "Fybate Lecture Notes for Philosophy 10A" , 1947-1948 Containers box 2 , folder 11 Erich Lehmann: "Notes for Use in Course Mathematics 12" , 1948 Containers box 2 , folder 12 "Place of Art in a World of Change," Magazine-Clipping from Arts and Architecture , October 1948 Containers box 2 , folder 13 "The 1945-46 Symposium on Probability" , 1947-1948 Containers box 2 , folder 14 "Carnap's Use of 'True' in Meaning and Necessity , 1948 Containers box 2 , folder 15 Subseries 3. Professional Papers , 1949-1953 Scope and Content Notes The original, chronological order of the material was preserved.
"Carnap Bibliography" , 1949 Containers box 2 , folder 16 Untitled Note on a Point in Meaning and Necessity addressed to Mates , 1948 Containers box 2 , folder 17 American Philosophical Association Meeting, Program and Abstracts , 1949 Containers box 2 , folder 18 Untitled Note on a Point in von Wright , 1949-1950 Containers box 2 , folder 19 Suggestion for a Name of Philosophy Club , 1950 Containers box 2 , folder 20 Translation from German to English of Tarski's "The Concept of a True Sentence in Everyday Language" , 1950 Containers box 2 , folder 21 "Carnap Bibliography" , 1953 Containers box 2 , folder 22 "Comments on Rynin's The Logic and Semantics of Argument , 1953 Containers box 2 , folder 23 Inserts found in Books of Benson's Library Containers box 2 , folder 24 Series II. Material relating to Rudolf Carnap , 1904-1994 Scope and Content Notes This series comprises different types of documents which are all authored by or related to Rudolf Carnap. Included are correspondence between Carnap and Benson pertaining primarily to the Schilpp volume, The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap; lecture notes and manuscript drafts authored by Carnap; fragmentary, typed lists with handwritten additions in Carnap's hand of his research, publications, lectures, and teaching activities; typed discussion notes between Carnap and Wilfrid Sellars; lecture notes by Herbert Feigl; foreign language publications of Carnap's writings; corrections and additions by Benson sent to Martin Gardner for a revised edition of Carnap's An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science; black and white photographic prints of Rudolf Carnap in class; and a few audio recordings of the Carnap memorial gathering in 1971 and commemorative German radio broadcasts of 1991. Some correspondence and notes concern Carnap's donations of books and other material to UCLA's research library and philosophy department. The original, chronological and topical order of the material is preserved.
Shorthand Manuals Stolze-Schrey , 1904-1906 Containers box 3 , folder 1 Excerpts of Carnap's Published Writings, Copies and Originals , 1921-1950 Containers box 3 , folder 2 "On the Logic of Measurement" by Ernest Nagel, Copy of Article , 1930 Containers box 3 , folder 3 Carnap Notes: Wissenschaftliche Vorträge im Ausland , 1935 Containers box 3 , folder 4 Reviews by A.J. Ayer of Carnap's Logical Syntax and by Amethe von Zeppelin of Symbolic Logic and the Philosophy of Science , 1937 Containers box 3 , folder 5 Foreign Language Publications of Carnap's Writings, Journal and Book Excerpts , 1938-1956 Containers box 3 , folder 6 Foreign Language Publications of Carnap's Writings, Journal and Book Excerpts , 1968-1977 Containers box 3 , folder 7 An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth by Bertrand Russell: Annotated Galleys1940 Containers box 3 , folder 8 Carnap Notes: Who Knows – and What , 1948-1952 Containers box 3 , folder 9 Benson-Carnap Correspondence and Notes , 1953-1970 Containers box 4 , folder 1 Remarks on Physicalism and Related Topics: Discussions between Carnap and Wilfrid Sellars, Typescript , 1954 Containers box 4 , folder 2 Lecture Notes by Herbert Feigl: "Some Major Issues and Developments in the Philosophy of Science of Logical Empiricism" , 1954 Containers box 4 , folder 3 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture I , 1958 Containers box 4 , folder 4 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture II , 1958 Containers box 4 , folder 5 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture III , 1958 Containers box 4 , folder 6 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture IV , 1958 Containers box 4 , folder 7 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture V , 1958 Containers box 4 , folder 8 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture VI , 1958 Containers box 4 , folder 9 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture VII , 1958 Containers box 4 , folder 10 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture VIII , 1958 Containers box 4 , folder 11 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture IX , 1958 Containers box 4 , folder 12 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture X , 1958 Containers box 4 , folder 13 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture XI , 1958 Containers box 5 , folder 1 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture XII , 1958 Containers box 5 , folder 2 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture XIII , 1958 Containers box 5 , folder 3 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture XIV , 1959 Containers box 5 , folder 4 Seminar Lecture Notes "Foundations of Physics," Lecture XV , 1959 Containers box 5 , folder 5 "An Axiom System of Inductive Logic," First Version, First Part , 1959 Containers box 5 , folder 6 "An Axiom System of Inductive Logic," First Version, Third Part , 1961 Containers box 5 , folder 7 "An Axiom System of Inductive Logic," First Version, Fourth Part , 1963 Containers box 5 , folder 8 "An Axiom System of Inductive Logic," First Version, Fifth (and Last) Part , 1964-1965 Containers box 5 , folder 9 Books for UCLA , 1962-1969 Containers box 5 , folder 10 Carnap's Remarks on Gardner Book , 1963 Containers box 5 , folder 11 Notes relating to Carnap Bibliography by Benson , 1965-1966 Containers box 5 , folder 12 Notes and Correspondence relating to Publications of Carnap's Writings , 1967-1971 Containers box 5 , folder 13 "Basic System of Inductive Logic," Chapter 4: Pure and Applied Inductive Logic , 1969 Containers box 5 , folder 14 "Basic System of Inductive Logic," Chapter 12: Representative Functions for C , undated Containers box 5 , folder 15 "Basic System of Inductive Logic," Chapter 13: The Principle of Instantial Relevance , undated Containers box 5 , folder 16 "Basic System of Inductive Logic," Chapter 14: The Attribute Space , undated Containers box 6 , folder 1 "Basic System of Inductive Logic," Chapter 15: Basic Regions and Admissible Regions in the Attribute Space , undated Containers box 6 , folder 2 "Basic System of Inductive Logic," Chapter 16: The Analogy Influence , undated Containers box 6 , folder 3 "Basic System of Inductive Logic," Chapter 17: The Eta Function , undated Containers box 6 , folder 4 "Basic System of Inductive Logic," Chapter 18: Some Special Kinds of Families , undated Containers box 6 , folder 5 "Inductive Logic and Rational Decisions" , 1969 Containers box 6 , folder 6 Carnap Memorial Meeting: Lists of Guests, Correspondence, Expenses , 1971 Containers box 6 , folder 7 "Carnap's Empiricism" by Richard Jeffrey and Letter to Hanna Thost , 1973 Containers box 6 , folder 8 An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science of Science : Corrections and Additions by Benson to Martin Gardner1994 Containers box 6 , folder 9 Photographic Prints: Rudolf Carnap in Class , undated Containers box 6 , folder 10 Audio Cassette with Recording of German Radio Broadcast in Honor of Carnap's 100th Birthday by Gregor Schiemann , 1991 Containers box 7 , folder 1 Audio Cassette with Recording of German Radio Broadcast in Honor of Carnap's 100th Birthday by Willy Hochkeppel , 1991 Containers box 7 , folder 2 Audio Tape with Recording of Speeches from the Carnap Memorial Gathering, Part 1 , undated Containers box 7 , folder 3 Audio Tape with Recording of Speeches from the Carnap Memorial Gathering, Part 2 , undated Containers box 7 , folder 4 Audio Tape with Recording of Carnap's Voice, mostly from Seminars , 1958-1961 Containers box 7 , folder 5 Audio Tape with Recording of Carnap Seminar [?] on Fiske and Peirce & James , 1966 Containers box 7 , folder 6 Audio Tape with Recording of Carnap Seminar [?] on Peirce and Fiske , 1966 Containers box 7 , folder 7 Multimedia Materials Audio Cassette with Recording of German Radio Broadcast in Honor of Carnap's 100th Birthday by Gregor Schiemann , 1991-05-14 Containers box 7 , cassette 1 Audio Cassette with Recording of German Radio Broadcast in Honor of Carnap's 100th Birthday by Willy Hochkeppel , 1991 Containers box 7 , cassette 2 Audio Tape with Recording of Speeches from the Carnap Memorial Gathering, Part 1 Audio Tape with Recording of Speeches from the Carnap Memorial Gathering, Part 2 Audio Tape with Recording of Carnap's Voice, mostly from Seminars , 1958-1961 Audio Tape with Recording of Carnap Seminar [?] on Fiske and Peirce & James , 1966 Audio Tape with Recording of Carnap Seminar [?] on Peirce and Fiske , 1966 
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