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Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman). W. V. Quine papers, ca. 1908-2000.

Title: W. V. Quine papers, ca. 1908-2000.

Papers include: professional correspondence and topical files; crank letters; requests for permission to publish Quine writings; declined invitations sent to Quine to lecture, referee, serve on a board, and write; Quine's notes and compositions for lectures, books, articles, teaching and work from his own student years; collected compositions written by others, most with annotations by Quine; biographical miscellany; and ephemera, clippings, and photographs. Also includes restricted files including: Quine's recommendations written for others along with resumes and correspondence; files about students; correspondence concerning the recommending and selection of candidates for teaching positions, awards, etc...; and some Harvard University departmental files. Series I, the large, general correspondence series, includes many prominent correspondents in the world of 20th-century philosophy, and much conversation about departments at Harvard University and various philosophical societies and journals. Also, mixed within this series, are topical folders including letters and information about the main entry. It should be noted that Quine's correspondence often contained philosophical proofs, logical and mathematical symbols, and other philosophical expressions that appear more like working papers for his writings than simple letters. Many of the names featured in this correspondence series, also have entries in Series III, Compositons by others. A few of the correspondents included in series I are: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Association, Association for Symbolic Logic, A. J. (Alfred Jules) Ayer, Rudolf Carnap, Noam Chomsky, Alonzo Church, Donald Davidson, Burton Dreben, Herbert Feigl, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Philipp Frank, P. T. (Peter Thomas) Geach, Roger F. Gibson, Nelson Goodman, Carl Gustav Hempel, Saul A. Kripke, Ernest LePore, Bryan Magee, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Charles W. (Charles William) Morris, Ernest Nagel, Jean Piaget, Charles Parsons, Michael Polanyi, Sir Karl Raimond Popper, Hilary Putnam, John Rawls, Richard Rorty, Bertrand Russell, Gilbert Ryle, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic) Skinner, J. J. C. (John Jamieson Carswell) Smart, P. F. Strawson, Alfred Tarski, Jean Van Heijenoort, Hao Wang, Alfred North Whitehead, J. O. (John Oulton) Wisdom, and many, many others. Quine's compositions include: his own early course work and notes on classes taken at Oberlin College and at Harvard University; notes from later years; teaching materials, especially lectures materials for courses at Harvard; lecture materials for occasional lectures; and appointment calendars, clippings on his life, and a few other personal or family related items. There is very little personal correspondence, photographs or papers, as these were retained by the Quine family.

ArchivalResource: 121 boxes [115 boxes (HD), 6 boxes (Vault)] (56 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612734788 View

Reichenbach, Hans, 1891-1953. Hans-Reichenbach-Sammlung [microform] 1900-1979 (grösstenteils 1919-1953)

Title: Hans-Reichenbach-Sammlung [microform] 1900-1979 (grösstenteils 1919-1953)

Die Sammlung enthält neben Manuskriptmaterial und Korrespondenz auch bio-bibliographisches Material sowie Korrekturfahnen von Reichenbachs Veröffentlichungen und von durch Maria Reichenbach posthum herausgegebenen Schriften Reichenbachs. Die umfangreiche, mehr als 9.000 Seiten umfassende Korrespondenz enthält ausführlichen Briefwechsel mit Rudolf Carnap, Ernst Cassirer, Philipp Frank, Sidney Hook, Carl G. Hempel, Charles Morris, Paul Oppenheim, Wolfgang Pauli und Moritz Schlick. Daneben findet sich auch Korrespondenz mit Gustav Bergmann, Hugo Dingler, Walter Dubislav, Albert Einstein, Herbert Feigl, Kurt Grelling, Paul Hertz, Max von Laue, Kurt Lewin, C.I. Lewis, Ernest Nagel, Otto Neurath, Max Planck, Bertrand Russell, Erwin Schrödinger, Alfred Tarski, Edgar Zilsel u.a. Die Korrespondenz bietet wichtige Dokumente zur Geschichte der Berliner "Gesellschaft für empirische/wissenschaftliche Philosophie" und zur Geschichte der Zeitschrift "Erkenntnis".

ArchivalResource: 28 Mikrofilmrollen.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31535399 View

Frank, Philipp, 1884-1966. Papers of Philipp Frank, 1952-1960 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Philipp Frank, 1952-1960 (inclusive).

Includes correspondence, manuscripts of writings on philosophy and science, some personal and financial papers, student course material, and photographs of Frank and others. Related publications and reference material also available in repository.

ArchivalResource: 2 containers of mss.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76973039 View

William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01777 View

Korn, Elizabeth P. Sketches, n.d.

Title: Sketches, n.d.

Portraits of many scientists and other people. The scientists were drawn by commission at meetings and conferences throught Europe in the late 1930s and during the postwar period in the United States. Included are drawings of Richard Courant, Philipp Frank, Fritz Haber, Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg, Arthur Korn, Walther Nernst, Jean Perrin, Richard Von Mises, Norbert Wiener, and Hermann Weyl.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80932064 View

Papers of Harlow Shapley, 1906-1966 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Harlow Shapley, 1906-1966 (inclusive).

The Papers of Harlow Shapley document Shapley's research, professional, and political interests. They include the Papers of Martha Betz Shapley and some biographical and genealogical information.

ArchivalResource: 53 cubic feet in 167 containers.

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua03998/catalog View

Little Orchestra Society concert recordings collection [sound recording], 1947-1957

Title: Little Orchestra Society concert recordings collection [sound recording] 1947-1957

The collection consists of concert recordings, made for Mr. Scherman, from late 1947 to late 1957.

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http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20440 View

Frank, Philipp, 1884-1966. A collection of miscellaneous papers by this author.

Title: A collection of miscellaneous papers by this author.

ArchivalResource: 1 accordian folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/656817669 View

Unity of science movement records, 1934-1968.

Title: Unity of science movement records, 1934-1968.

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, financial records, programs, reprints, a photograph, and newspaper clippings. Includes extensive correspondence of members involved in the movement, as well as organizational materials and abstracts from the International Congresses for the Unity of Science. Also includes material related to the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Correspondents include Percy W. Bridgman, Rudolph Carnap, John Dewey, Herbert Feigl, Philipp Frank, Joergen Joergensen, Victor Lenzen, Charles W. Morris, Otto Neurath, Hans Reichenbach, Louis Roughier, and Bertrand Russell.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52246185 View

Reichenbach, Hans, 1891-1953. Papers.

Title: Papers.

Correspondence contains about 9,000 pages and ranges over his entire career. It includes substantial exchanges with Rudolph Carnap, Ernst Cassirer, Philipp Frank, Sidney Hook, Paul Oppenheim, Wolfgang Pauli, and others. There is also significant correspondence with thinkers like Bergmann, Dingler, Dubislav, Grelling, von Laue, Morris, Nagel, Planck, Schrödinger, Tarski, and Zilsel. The correspondence provides not only valuable information about Reichenbach's own philosophical development but also important background material for research into one of this century's most influential philosophical movements: Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie (the Berlin Circle). Collection also contains substantial amount of notes and lecture outlines, including lectures from Einstein, Hilbert, and Planck. Also notes from Reichenbach's own lectures and presentations on topics in the natural sciences, mathematics and philosophy, as well as social issues and popularizations of relativity theory and quantum mechanics. Reichenbach's library, of over 1000 volumes, is also part of the collection.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79165672 View

Frank, Philipp, 1884-1966. Oral history interview with Philipp Frank, 1962 July 16.

Title: Oral history interview with Philipp Frank, 1962 July 16.

This interview was conducted as part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics project, which includes tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with ca. 100 atomic and quantum physicists. Subjects discuss their family backgrounds, how they became interested in physics, their educations, people who influenced them, their careers including social influences on the conditions of research, and the state of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics during the period in which they worked. Discussions of scientific matters relate to work that was done between approximately 1900 and 1930, with an emphasis on the discovery and interpretations of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Also prominently mentioned are: Ludwig Edvard Boltzmann, Percy Williams Bridgman, Louis de Broglie, Patrick Browne, James Bryant Conant, Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, Franz Serafin Exner, Arthur de Haas, Fritz Hasenöhrl, Werner Heisenberg, Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, Victor Francis Hess, Jack Kennedy, Paul Langevin, Ernst Mach, Richard von Mises, Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, Kurt Sitte, Arnold Sommerfeld; Deutsche Naturforscher Versammlung (Prague), University of Prague, and Universität Wien.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 16 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81511391 View

Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972. Papers of Harlow Shapley, 1906-1966 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Harlow Shapley, 1906-1966 (inclusive).

Contains correspondence and manuscripts of Shapley's writings concerning his scientific interests and activities, diaries, research notebooks, speeches and articles, and biographical and genealogical material.

ArchivalResource: 141 containers of mss.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17267477 View

Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk), 1898-1950

Title: Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk) 1898-1950

Primary source materials for the history of quantum physics in the twentieth century, collected under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society and the American Physical Society, with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

ArchivalResource: 300.0 Microfilm reel(s), 12,500 items on 300 microfilm reels; 107 recordings

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.530.1.Ar2-ead.xml View

Herbert Feigl papers, 1921-1971

Title: Herbert Feigl papers 1921-1971

Collection contains the papers of Herbert Feigl, Regents' professor emeritus of philosophy and director emeritus of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 49 boxes; (23 linear feet)

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Unity of Science Movement. Records, 1934-1968

Title: Unity of Science Movement. Records 1934-1968

The Unity of Science Movement, founded by sociologist Otto Neurath, sought a common empirical attitude toward all the sciences and strove to develop a single, comprehensive scientific language. Along with a philosophic program, the members of the movement undertook the publication of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, financial records, programs, reprints, a photograph, and newspaper clippings. Includes extensive correspondence of members involved in the movement, as well as organizational materials and abstracts from the International Congresses for the Unity of Science. Also includes material related to the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Correspondents include Percy W. Bridgman, Rudolph Carnap, John Dewey, Herbert Feigl, Philipp Frank, Joergen Joergensen, Victor Lenzen, Charles W. Morris, Otto Neurath, Hans Reichenbach, Louis Roughier, and Bertrand Russell.

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http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.USM View

Bergmann, Gustav, 1906-1987. Papers of Gustav Bergmann, 1923-1991.

Title: Papers of Gustav Bergmann, 1923-1991.

Correspondence, lecture notes, manuscripts of writings, photographs, and publications from Bergmann's career as a professor of philosophy. The manuscripts of writings include notes for and drafts of two of his books, Realism: a critique of Brentano and Meinong, 1967, and New foundations of ontology, 1992, the latter edited for publication by William Heald. Lecture notes are for his classes at the University of Iowa and for lectures in the United States and Sweden. Philosophers discussed include Franz Brentano, Kurt Gödel, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Correspondents include May Brodbeck, Herbert Feigl, John von Neumann, and Marguerite Young.

ArchivalResource: 23 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71355684 View

Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972. Papers of Harlow Shapley, 1906-1966 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Harlow Shapley, 1906-1966 (inclusive).

The Papers of Harlow Shapley document Shapley's research, professional, and political interests. They include the Papers of Martha Betz Shapley and some biographical and genealogical information.

ArchivalResource: 53 cubic feet in 167 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76973181 View