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box 1: Correspondence and Journals (1942-1997)
box 2: Virgil C. Aldrich, Manuscripts of Text
box 3: Virgil C. Aldrich, Philosophy of Art (1963 and 1980)
This box contains the manuscript and revisions.
box 4: Virgil C. Aldrich, Picture Thinking: Philosophical Essays
This box contains manuscripts, excerpts and drafts.
box 5: Virgil C. Aldrich, Publications, "A" (1934-1978)
folder 1: "The Adventures of P and Q"
folder 2: "Aesthetic Perception and Objectivity" (1978)
folder 3: "Aftermath Series"
folder 4: "Analytic: A Posteriori" (1969)
This folder also includes an essay by Jay Rosenberg entitled "Aldrich on the Analytic: A Posteriori."
folder 5: "An Aspect Theory of the Mind" (1965-1966)
folder 6: "An Iceberg and Two Pictures of Language"
folder 7: The Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Review
folder 8: "Are There Vague Sense-Data?" (1934)
folder 9: "A Rose Has No Teeth"
folder 10: "Art and the Human Form" (1971)
folder 11-13: "At First Sight"
box 6: Virgil C. Aldrich, Publications, "B-D" (1934-1979)
folder 1: "Back to Aesthetic Experience" (1966)
folder 2: "Barbara"
folder 3: "Behavior, Simulating and Nonsimulating" (1966)
folder 4: "Being in Touch With"
folder 5: "Believing and Burning"
folder 6: "Beyond Ethics?" (1941)
folder 7: "Bittersweet"
folder 8-9: "The Body of a Person," Manuscript and Excerpts
folder 10: "Can Representations Be Identical with Anything?"
folder 11: "Categories and Spinoza's Attributes"
folder 12: "Chess Not Without the Queen" (1958)
folder 13: "The Cognitive Role of Action"
folder 14: "Colors as Universals" (1952)
folder 15: The Concept of Memory, Reviews (1967-1968)
folder 16: "Cultural Viscosity--A Brief Meditation"
folder 17: "Dennett on Description and Expression"
folder 18: "De Rerum Natura"
folder 19: "DesCartes' [Descartes's] Method of Doubt" (1937)
folder 20: "Description and Expression: Physicalism Restricted" (1977)
folder 21: "Design, Composition, and Symbol" (1969)
folder 22: "Devi's Revenge"
folder 23: "Devils--Red, White, and Black: An Open Letter to Mr. Malcolm X" (1963)
folder 24: "The Dialectic Implicit in Ordinary Language"
folder 25: "Discussions" (1934, 1979)
box 7: Virgil C. Aldrich, Publications, "D-L" (1928-1990)
folder 1: "Does Seeing Have Intentional Objects?"
folder 2: "Do Linguistics Acts Make Me Tired?" (1964)
folder 3: "The Dream Argument for Philosophical Skepticism"
folder 4: "Education for Aesthetic Vision" (1968)
folder 5: "'Expresses' and 'Expressive'" (1978)
folder 6: "Expression by Enactment" (1954)
folder 7: "External Idealism"
folder 8: "Facts, Things, and What We Simply See"
folder 9: "Farewell"
folder 10: "The Field of Action"
folder 11: "Finis"
folder 12: "Form in the Visual Arts" (1970-1971)
folder 13: "Friendly Wilderness" (1990)
folder 14: "Freud, Ordinary Language, and the Language of Poetry"
folder 15: "Hamlet and Tragedy"
folder 16: "The High and the Holy" (1954)
folder 17: "Illocutionary Space" (1971)
folder 18: The Image in Form, Review (1972)
folder 19: The Image, Knowledge on Life, and Society, Reviews (1957)
folder 20: "Image-Mongering and Image-Management"
folder 21: "Images as Things and Things as Imaged" (1955)
folder 22: "Individuation"
folder 23: "The Informal Logic of the Employment of Expressions" (1954)
folder 24: "Is an After-Image a Sense-Datum?" (1955)
folder 25: "It's Better with Your Shoes Off"
folder 26: "Jesus or Plato?" (1934)
folder 27: "Job and J. B." (1959)
folder 28: "John Dewey's Use of Language"
folder 29: Kant's Principle of Personality, Reviews (1971)
folder 30: "Kripke's Account of the Argument against Private Language"
folder 31: "Kripke on Wittgenstein on Regulation" (1987)
folder 32: L'Absolill de F. H. Bradley (1928)
folder 33: "The Language of Art" (1965)
folder 34: "The Language of Religion" (1955)
folder 35: "Language and Philosophy" (1955)
folder 36: "The Last Word on Being Red and Blue All Over" (1954)
folder 37: "The Liar Paradox with Trimmings"
box 8: Virgil C. Aldrich, Publications, "L-P" (1941-1989)
folder 1: "Linguistic Mysticism" (1976)
folder 2: "Logically Necessary A Posteriori Propositions" (1969)
folder 3: "Making Something of Something" (1982)
folder 4: "Man as the Symbolizing Animal" (1949)
folder 5: "McGregor on Dickie's Institutionalized Aesthetic"
folder 6: "A Meditation on the New Theory and Practice of Mediation" (1975)
folder 7: "To Members of the APA" (1941)
folder 8: "Mention and 'Use' as Applied to Nonlinguistic Actions" (1968)
folder 9: "Messrs. Schlick and Ayer on Immortality"
folder 10: "The Middle, the End, and the New Beginning" (1967)
folder 11: "Mirrors, Pictures, Words, Perceptions" (1989)
folder 12: "Mothersill and Gombrich on the Language of Art" (1968)
folder 13: "Mr. Quine on Meaning, Naming, and Purporting to Name" (1955)
folder 14: "Musings of a Modern Vagabond"
folder 15: "My Biggest Scare"
folder 16: "My Century," Excerpt
folder 17: "My Life in Pieces"
folder 18: "My Philosophical Turnings," Excerpt
folder 19: The Nature of Aesthetic Value, Excerpt
folder 20: "New Aesthetics" (1954)
folder 21: "Nonnumerical Counting"
folder 22: "Notes from Nowhere"
folder 23: "Nothing-In-Itself"
folder 24: "Objective Sense Data" (1979)
folder 25: "On Seeing Bodily Movements as Actions" (1967)
folder 26: "On the Nature of Things"
folder 27: "On Persons as Things"
folder 28-29: "On Seeing What is Not There," Manuscript, Excerpt, and Notes (1972)
folder 30: "On What it is Like to be a Man" (1973)
folder 31: "The Origin of the Apriori" (1954)
folder 32: "The Outsider"
folder 33: "Past Evidence"
folder 34: "Persons as Natural Works of Art"
folder 35: "Persons, Dressed and Undressed"
folder 36: "Philosophical Aphorisms"
folder 37: "Philosophical 'Ins' and 'Outs'"
folder 38: "Philosophical Remarks"
folder 39: Philosophical Inquiry, Review (1956)
box 9: Virgil C. Aldrich, Publications, "P-R" (1933-1989)
folder 1: "The Philosophy of American Patriotism" (1977)
folder 2: "Photographing a Fact?" (1989)
folder 3: "Pictorial Meaning, Picture Thinking, and Wittgenstein's Theory of Aspects" (1958)
folder 4: "Pictures and Persons--An Analogy" (1975)
folder 5: "Picture Space" (1958)
folder 6: "Picturing, Seeing and the Time-Lag Argument" (1975)
folder 7: "The Pineal Gland Updated"
folder 8: "The Place of a Representation"
folder 9: "Plank's Where is Science Going" (1933)
folder 10: "Point of View" (1979)
folder 11-13: Preface to a Philosophy of Meaning
folder 14: "Professor Petrie on Seeing and Seeing-As"
folder 15: "Raw Feels, Animals, Robots, and People"
folder 16: "Reflections on Ayer's Concept of a Person" (1965)
folder 17: "Rejoinder to Davis"
folder 18: "Relativism, Rorty, and Reality"
folder 19: "Rorty's Circumvention of Derrida"
box 10: Virgil C. Aldrich, Publications, "S-T" (1932-1998)
folder 1: "Skepticism and Ideology"
folder 2: "The Scientific Abuse of Imagination" (1941)
folder 3: "Seeing, Knowing, and Believing: A Study of the Language of Visual Perception" (1966)
folder 4: Seeing and Knowing, Review
folder 5: "Seeing a Whole of Parts," Textual Addendum
folder 6: "Self-Consciousness" (1965)
folder 7-8: "Sight and Light" (1974)
folder 9: "The Simply and the Literally Given in Experience" (1954)
folder 10: "Simply Seeing Something"
folder 11: "Sita"
folder 12-13: "Something Really Unheard Of" (1974)
folder 14-16: "Space and Spaces" (1997-1998)
folder 17: "Speaking the Same Language" (1955)
folder 18: "Spontaneous Writing"
folder 19: "Standard of Length"
folder 20: "Story, History, and Highstory"
folder 21: "Symbolism and Similarity"
folder 22: "A Sympathetic Suggestion for Feminists"
folder 23: "Symposium: Are Religious Dogmas Cognitive and Meaningful?" (1954)
folder 24: "Taking Casual Theory of Perception Seriously" (1932)
folder 25: "The Teacher's Station and Its Duties" (1968)
folder 26: "Telling, Acknowledging, and Asserting" (1966)
folder 27: "Theory and the Integrity of Experience" (1940)
box 11: Virgil C. Aldrich, Publications, "T-Y" (1933-1983)
folder 1: "Things, Material Things, Bodies, and Physical Objects"
folder 2: "Too Obvious for Words" (1963)
folder 3: "Tragedy West and East" (1959)
folder 4: "Two or Three Thoughts on 'Use of an Expression'" (1962)
folder 5: "Visual Metaphor" (1968)
folder 6: "Visuelle Metapher" (1983)
folder 7: "Visual Noticing without Believing" (1974)
folder 8: "What Appears?" (1954)
folder 9: "What It Is Like To Be Me"
folder 10: "What Made Me Philosophical"
folder 11: "What's New and Important in Recent Philosophy of Art"
folder 12: "What We See With" (1938)
folder 13: A Whiteheadian Aesthetic, Review (1962)
folder 14: "Wittgenstein: In Memoriam"
folder 15: "Word-Portraiture" (1933)
folder 16: "You"
box 12: Virgil C. Aldrich, Various Writings (1997)
box 13: Notebooks (1987)
This box contains Virgil C. Aldrich's notebooks containing lecture notes and writing notes.
box 14: Notes and Notebooks (1987)
This box contains Virgil C. Aldrich's notebooks containing various writings and notes on the seminar on Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
box 15: Faculty and Student Essays
folder 1: Rueben Abel, Essay
folder 2: Peter Appleby, Essay (1980)
folder 3: Lynne Rudder Baker, Essays
folder 4: Margaret P. Battin, Essay
folder 5: Donald W. Benson, "Nagel's Interpretation of Death as Evil"
folder 6: Gerald Biesinger, Essay (1983)
folder 7: F. Farnum Brown, Essays (1984)
folder 8: Jeffrey Combs, "On Death Not as a Limit"
folder 9: "Death and the Personal Perspective"
folder 10-11: Kamet Ericson, Textual Excerpts
folder 12: Penny A. Freppon, "Children's Concepts of the Nature and Purpose of Reading in Different Instructional Settings" (1991)
folder 13-14: Marie Frinquegnon, Essays
folder 15: Ann Gebhart, "Coming into Being and Passing Away: Can Chisholm Help?"
folder 16: Shirlee Geiger, Essays (1980-1981)
folder 17: Don Gustafason, Essays (1965-1966, 1990)
folder 18: Pat Hanna, Essays (1981)
folder 19: Jean G. Harrell, "Method in Aesthetics"
folder 20-23: Bernard Harrison, Essays (1982-1998)
box 16: Faculty and Student Essays (1974-1998)
folder 1: Pui Kwan Ho, "The Mental and the Physical"
folder 2: Lauri Hobbs, Essay (1976)
folder 3: Ric Holt, "The Criteria for Self-Identity"
folder 4: Brooke Hopkins, Essays (1989)
folder 5: Robert Howell, "Seeing As"
folder 6: Kelly Dean Jolley, "Walden: Philosophy and Knowledge of Human Kind"
folder 7: Hiroshi Kawano, "Folk Aesthetics on Computer Metaphor"
folder 8: Joseph F. Kellener, "Physicomania: Remarks on Its Etiology, Diagnosis, and Cure" (1977)
folder 9: Justin Leiber, "On What Sort of Speech Act Wittgenstein's Investigations Is and Why It Matters" (1995)
folder 10: Alan Mendelson, "On Publishing the Letters of a Holocaust Surivivor"
folder 11: Alan Miller, "The Behaviorist Entailment Implicit in Goodman"
folder 12: Manfred Moritz and Harold Ofstad, Essays
folder 13: Carolyn Norris, "Edifying Philosophy: Liberation through the Apprehension of the Nature of the Self: Reflections on the Thought of Kierkegaard and Marx" (1982)
folder 14: Shirley Pedler, "Beyond Traditional Philosophy"
folder 15: Richard Rorty, "Pragmatism, Davidson, and Truth"
folder 16: Clarence B. Sheffield, Jr., A Critical Study of Alois Riegl's Spatromische Kunstindustrie (1983)
folder 17: Bill Steinquist, "Towards a New Theory of Resemblance"
folder 18: Preston Steiff, "The Logic of Talk about Personal Survival" (1980)
folder 19: Fred Tabor, "Essence, Relativism, and Wittgenstein" (1982)
folder 20: Patricia Tibolla, "On the Relationship between a Person and His Body" (1975)
folder 21: Zeno Vendler, "On What We Know"
folder 22: Jim Wheelwright, Essays (1974-1975)
folder 23: Nick White, Essays (1998)
folder 24: Paul Ziff, "What Is Said"
box 17: Articles and Publications (1951-1990)
folder 1: "Afterword (Submitted to Social Text)"
folder 2: "Alfred, Lord Tennyson"
folder 3: "Art in the Circle of Life"
folder 4: R. F. Atkinson, "Explanation in History" (1972)
folder 5: Bruce Aune, "Cans and Ifs: An Exchange"
folder 6: J. L. Austin, "Ifs and Cans"
folder 7: "Austin and Examples"
folder 8: Kurt Baier, "What is Value? An Analysis of the Concept" (1951)
folder 9: Monroe C. Beardsley, "The Aesthetic Point of View" (1970)
folder 10: "Beardsley on 'Expression'"
folder 11: J. S. Bell, "Bertlmann's Socks and the Nature of Reality" (1981)
folder 12: Stephan Bodian, "Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: A Conversation with Arne Naess"
folder 13: Brains in a Vat, Excerpt
folder 14: "Casual Schema Which Explains the Onset of Emotion"
folder 15: "Dworkin's Theory of Law: Law as an Essentially Contested Concept"
folder 16: "The Explicator" (1964)
folder 17: Hans J. Eysenck, "New Ways in Psychotherapy"
folder 18: Feminist Philosophy and Socially Situated Knowledge, Essays and Articles (1988) (1992)
folder 19: "The Field of Philosophy"
folder 20: Sandra Harding, "Feminist Justificatory Strategies"
folder 21: "Getting a Living"
folder 22: "God Is Dead," Notes
folder 23: D. W. Gotshalk, "C. I. Lewis on Esthetic Experience and Esthetic Value" (1968)
folder 24: Bernard Harrison, "Forster and Moore"
folder 25: Bernard Harrison, "Rigidity and Description: A Reply to Ryckman" (1984)
folder 26: Mary Hesse, "Probability as the Logic of Science" (1972)
folder 27: Kishimoto Hideo, "The Stolen Years"
folder 28: Terence Horgan, "From Supervienience to Superdupervenience: Meeting the Demands of a Material World"
folder 29: Robin Horton, "African Traditional Thought and Western Science"
folder 30: Don Howard, "Holism, Separability, and the Metaphysical Implications of the Bell Experiments"
folder 31: "The Independence of Expressive and Nonexpressive Properties of Artworks"
folder 32: International Newsletter of Aesthetics (1990)
folder 33: "Introduction: From Form to Differance," Textual Excerpt
folder 34: Jon P. Jarrett, "Bell's Theorem: A Guide to the Implications" (1987)
folder 35: The Journal of Philosophy (1968-1979)
folder 36: "The Justification of Deduction (1973)"
folder 37: Evelyn Fox Keller, "Feminism and Science" (1982)
folder 38: David Keyt, "Plato's Paradox that the Immutable is Unknowable" (1969)
folder 39: Geneviere Lloyd, "The Man of Reason"
folder 40: D. M. Mackinnon, "Death"
folder 41: F. David Martin, "Naming Paintings" (1966)
folder 42: B. K. Matilal, "Gangesa on the Concept of Property (Kevalanvayin)" (1968)
folder 43: Colin McGinn, "Truth and Use"
folder 44-45: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bibliography and Textual Excerpts
box 18: Articles and Publications (1958-1996)
folder 1: Patricia Y. Miller, Martha R. Fowlkes, "Social and Behavioral Constructions of Female Sexuality"
folder 2: Mind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy (1963-1987)
folder 3: "The Monist" (1966)
folder 4: Henry Moore, Articles on Sculptures
folder 5: Jeffrie G. Murphy, "Rationality and the Fear of Death" (1976)
folder 6: Winfield E. Nagley, "Kierkegaard's Irony in the 'Diapsalmata'" (1966)
folder 7: Alan Nelson, "How Could Scientific Facts Be Socially Constructed?" (1994)
folder 8: "New Directions in Health Care" (1980)
folder 9: Brian O'Shaughnessy, "Processes" (1972)
folder 10: Philosophia: Philosophy Quarterly of Israel (1984)
folder 11: Philosophical Investigations, Journal (1980)
folder 12: Philosophy of Art Aesthetics, Journal Articles (1958-1995)
folder 13: "The Philosophy of John Muir"
folder 14: H. Putnam, "Brains and Behavior" (1961)
folder 15: "A Puzzle about Designation"
folder 16: "The Reality of the Past (1969)"
folder 17: D. A. Rees, "Some Problems of Universalisation"
folder 18: Richard Rorty, "Deconstruction and Circumvention" (1984)
folder 19: Richard Rorty, "Holism, Intrinsicality, and the Ambition of Transcendence" (1993)
folder 20: "To Save the Phenomena," Textual Excerpt
folder 21: R. B. Schiffer, "The Concept of Death: Tradition and Alternative" (1978)
folder 22: John R. Searle, "Assertations and Aberrations"
folder 23: J. M. Shorter, "Personal Identity, Personal Relationships, and Criteria" (1971)
folder 24: "Singing the World, Language and Perception"
folder 25: Hans Sluga, "Frege on Meaning"
folder 26: Alan Sokal, "A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies" (1996)
folder 27: Alan Sokal, "Transgressing the Boundaries" (1996)
folder 28: Henry Staten, "Wittgenstein's Boundaries"
folder 29: Henry Staten, "Wittgenstein's Descriptive Project" (1988)
folder 30: L. W. Sumner, "A Matter of Life and Death" (1976)
folder 31: Elizabeth Telfer, "Friendship" (1971)
folder 32: Mary Turner, Kenneth J. Kurt, Skills to Care for the Elderly, the Chronically Ill, and the Dying, Correspondence and Manuscript Excerpt (1980)
folder 33: "Uncaged"
folder 34: "Unnecessary Afternote for Philosophers Only" (1996)
folder 35: Steven Weinberg, "Sokal's Hoax" (1996)
folder 36: Orson W. White, "The One Way Street" (1973)
folder 37: Peter Winch, "Can a Good Man be Harmed?" (1964)
folder 38: John Wisdom, "Gods"
folder 39: Joseph S. Wu, "Western Philosophy and the Search for Chinese Wisdom"
box 19: General Materials (1971-1997)
folder 1-4: Virgil C. Aldrich, Biographical Information
folder 5: American Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting Materials (1958, 1965)
folder 6: The Concept of Expression, Course Materials (1978)
folder 7: Kenyon College, Faculty Materials (1964)
folder 8: The Logic of Talk about Being Alive and Being Dead, Course Materials (1980)
folder 9: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), East West Workshop Materials
folder 10-11: Philosophy of Art, Course Materials (1982-1983)
folder 12: Relativism and Rationality, Course Materials (1984)
folder 13: Syllabus, Philosophy 685 (1987)
box 20: Untitled Manuscript
This box contains untitled and unclassified manuscript text and excerpts.
box 21: Oversize Materials (1955-1969)
Biographical Note/Historical Note +/-Aldrich (1903-1998) was born on 13 September 1903 in Narsinghpur, India. He studied at Oxford College and the Sorbonne before receiving his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 1931. Aldrich taught philosophy at Rice University, Columbia University, Kenyon College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the director of the American Studies Institute in Kyoto, Japan, as well as president of the American Philosophical Association (APA) and the American Society for Aesthetics. He retired in 1973 and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he became an adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Utah. He died on 28 May 1998. Content Description +/-The Virgil C. Aldrich papers (1928-1997) contain correspondence, journals, notebooks, writings, essays, and articles. Most of the collection contains manuscripts and copies of articles that Aldrich wrote. Collection Use +/-Restrictions on Access: Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law. Restrictions on Use: It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from the Virgil C. Aldrich papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator. Preferred Citation: Initial Citation: Virgil C. Aldrich papers, Accn 1726, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah. Following Citations:Accn 1726. Administrative Information +/-Acquisition Information: Boxes 1-21 were donated by Don Garrett in 1998. Box 22 was donated by Don Gustafson in 2004. Processing Note: Processed by Kate Kimball in 2001. Addendum processed by Lisa DeMille in 2004. Creator: Aldrich, Virgil C. Language: Collection materials are in English. Quantity: 11.75 linear feet Language of the Finding Aid: Finding aid encoded in English in Latin script. Author of the Finding Aid: Finding aid created by Kate Kimball EAD Creation Date: 2004 Subarea: Manuscripts Division |
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