Philosophers
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Giorgio Agamben papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1586
Scope and Contents:
The Giorgio Agamben papers contain writings, correspondence, and other papers by or relating to the life and works of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.
Dates:
1910-2016
Brand Blanshard papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1488
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, teaching files, diaries, photographs, and personal papers which document the personal life and career of Brand Blanshard and his first wife Frances Bradshaw Blanshard. The papers highlight the development of Swarthmore College during the presidency of Frank Aydelotte, the growth of the Yale University Department of Philosophy after World War II, and trends in the study and teaching of philosophy in the twentieth century.
Dates:
1873-1989, bulk 1913-1989
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Brand Blanshard papers
Ernst Cassirer papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 98
Overview:
The Ernst Cassirer Papers consist of manuscripts, research notes, correspondence, and personal papers documenting the life of Ernst Cassirer.
Dates:
1892-1958
Ernst Cassirer papers : addition
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 355
Overview:
The Ernst Cassirer Papers - Addition consists of manuscripts, research notes, correspondence from such persons as Hermann Cohen, Dimitry Gawronsky, Ernst Hoffmann and Raymond Klibansky and personal papers documenting the life of Ernst Cassirer. Also included are letters from Cassirer to his wife, Toni, and materials gathered by Toni Cassirer following Ernst Cassirer's death in 1945.
Dates:
1879-1992
Thomas Davidson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 169
Overview:
Correspondence, lectures, articles, printed matter, clippings, and film relating to the career of Davidson who came to the U.S. in 1867 and was associated with the St. Louis and Concord schools of philosophy, the founding of the Fellowship of the New Life, and the establishment of the Breadwinners' College. From 1878 to 1884, he was in Italy studying the writings of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, about whom he published a study in 1882. The major portion of the papers is made up of correspondence,...
Dates:
1857-1948, bulk 1857-1902
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Thomas Davidson papers
Jerome New Frank papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 222
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, legal material (including opinions, decisions, calendars, memoranda, and other papers), writings, speeches, Yale course materials, and family and personal papers of Jerome N. Frank, lawyer, government official during the New Deal, author, legal philosopher, teacher, and federal judge. The papers reflect Frank's wide range of activities, interests, and associations, and include important correspondence with many well known government officials, lawyers,...
Dates:
1918-1972, bulk 1929-1957
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Jerome New Frank papers
Richard C. Frewen papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1019
Overview:
Two unpublished typescripts of Richard C. Frewen's speculation on the origin of the cosmos and of life.
Dates:
1900-1944
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Richard C. Frewen papers
Henry Margenau papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 129
Overview:
The papers document Henry Margenau's professional career as a physicist and philosopher of science. They chiefly consist of correspondence and published and unpublished writings.
Dates:
1927-1990
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Henry Margenau papers
John Stuart Mill papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 350
Overview:
Chiefly correspondence, to or from Mill. Of the 237 letters by Mill, 131 are to his wife, Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill. Twenty-four letters are from Helen Taylor, Mrs. Mill's daughter. In addition there are two volumes with drafts of letters by Mill written between 1851 and 1858 to a variety of recipients. Notable correspondents in the collection are John Austin, Jeremy Bentham, Augustus De Morgan, Isabella Beecher Hooker, George Grote, John Sterling and Edward Livingston Youmans. Other manuscript...
Dates:
1812-1888
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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John Stuart Mill papers
Filmer Stuart Cuckow Northrop papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 627
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, notes and lectures, writings, research materials, publications of other scholars, photographs, journals, and miscellanea documenting the professional career of Filmer Stuart Cuckow Northrop, professor of philosophy and law at Yale University from 1923-1962. The papers primarily document the professional activities and research interests of Northrop, not his Yale teaching career and personal life. The correspondence reflects his professional and research...
Dates:
1914-1992, bulk 1914-1985