E. M. Adams Papers, 1937-1997

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E. M. Adams Papers, 1937-1997

E. M. Adams Papers, 1937-1997

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/a/Adams,E.M.html

Elie Maynard Adams, philosopher; assistant professor-Kenan Professor of Philosophy, 1948-1979; and chair of the faculty, 1976-1979, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correspondence, writings, interviews, and other material of E. Maynard Adams, chiefly documenting his professional life as a philosopher and faculty member at the University of North Carolina, but also including letters from Adams to his parents, 1937-1983. The collection contains Adams2 s professional correspondence and drafts of his writings as well as interviews with Adams by professors and students, films, and photographs of Adams.The interviews are primarily about Adams's ideas about important philosophical issues. Included are discussions of humanism, naturalism, metaphysics, logic, language, religion, morality, ethics, and Adams's criticisms of the economic system and ideas about structuring a humanistic economic system. Some interviews also discuss his life and the history of the University of North Carolina and its Department of Philosophy. Also included are 90 audiocassettes of philosophy classes taught by Adams.

15000; 25.0

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection