University of Washington Department of Philosophy records, 1917-1996.

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University of Washington Department of Philosophy records, 1917-1996.

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The Philosophy Department's records span the years 1917-1996. Departmental reviews from the 1970s through the 1990s, annual reports from the 1940s through the 1990s, and policies regarding salary and tenure comprise the bulk of the records. Also included are faculty files on several members of the department: Michael Lerner, Melvin Rader, John H. Randall, and Frederick Adrian Siegler. Major correspondents in the records include chairman Arthur Edward Murphy, Herbert Wallace Schneider of Columbia University, and William Savery.

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Siegler, Frederick Adrian.

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Murphy, Arthur Edward, 1901-1962

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Arthur E. Murphy (1901–1962) was a professor of philosophy at several major American universities, including Berkeley, Chicago, Cornell, Brown, Illinois, Washington, and Texas. Among his publications were The Theory of Practical Reason, The Uses of Reason, Reason, Reality, and Speculative Philosophy, and Reason and the Common Good, and he was the coauthor of Philosophy in American Education . From the guide to the Arthur E. Murphy Papers 2009-330., (Dolph Briscoe Center for American ...

Lerner, Michael, 1943-....

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Rader, Melvin (Melvin Miller), 1903-1981

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Randall, John H. III (John Herman), 1923-2006

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John Herman Randall III was born on November 26, 1923, in New York City, to Mercedes Irene Moritz Randall and John Herman Randall, Jr. He had one brother, Francis Ballard Randall, who was eight years younger. His father was an American philosopher, New Thought author, and Columbia University professor. John Randall III graduated from Columbia University in 1943 and entered Columbia’s medical school, but pivoted to studying American literature and American studies at the University of California ...

Schneider, Herbert W. (Herbert Wallace), 1892-1984

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Herbert Wallace Schneider was born on March 16, 1892, in Berea, Ohio. He studied under John Dewey at Columbia University where he received his Ph. D. in philosophy, later he became John Dewey's teaching assistant. In 1928 and 1937 Schneider was a research fellow in Italy, and made a careful study of fascism, its roots, and expression in Corporate State theory. After serving as an instructor and assistant professor at Columbia, he was appointed full professor of religion and philosophy in 1929. I...

Savery, William, 1875-

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University of Washington. Dept. of Philosophy.

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The Department of Philosophy and Psychology was established at the University of Washington in 1902 with the appointment of William Savery as its chair and only professor. By 1915 the department had expanded to the point that Psychology became a separate department. Savery and his colleagues participated in campus intellectual and progressive movements, and later faculty members also vocalized their political ideals, generating controversy and some criticism. William Savery died in 1945 after ha...

University of Washington. University Archives

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