Collection Summary
Bouwsma, O. K. (Oets Kolk), 1898-1978
O. K. Bouwsma Papers,
1907-1988 (bulk 1925-1978)
Manuscript Collection MS-00473
50 document boxes (21 linear feet)
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
The O. K. Bouwsma Papers, 1907-1988 (bulk 1925-1978) consist of journals, notepads, correspondence, notes, lectures, essays, articles, clippings, drawings, invitations, receipts, and printed material related to the American philosopher O. K. Bouwsma.
English
Biographical Sketch
Oets Kolk (O. K.) Bouwsma, born in 1898 in Muskegon, Michigan, was an American philosopher, teacher, and writer. He studied English literature and philosophy, first at Calvin College and later at the University of Michigan (BA 1920, MA 1921, PhD 1928). Bouwsma taught philosophy at the University of Nebraska from 1928 to 1965 and at the University of Texas at Austin from 1965 until his death in 1978.
On leave from the University of Nebraska from 1949-1951, Bouwsma traveled to Cornell University, Smith College (where he held a one-semester teaching appointment), and the University of Oxford, meeting and talking in all three locations with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Bouwsma took detailed notes recording his conversations with Wittgenstein, posthumously published as
Wittgenstein: Conversations, 1949-1951 (1986). In 1950-1951, Bouwsma delivered the inaugural series of John Locke Lectures in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, after Wittgenstein declined to participate due to ill health.
Bouwsma served as President of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association from 1957-1958. Some of his published articles were collected in the volumes
Philosophical Essays (1965) and The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry (1970). Selections from Bouwsma’s unpublished papers and notes were published posthumously in Toward a New Sensibility (1982), Without Proof or Evidence (1984), Bouwsma’s Notes on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, 1965-1975 (1986), and O. K. Bouwsma’s Commonplace Book: Remarks on Philosophy and Education (2001). Bouwsma taught many students who went on to become philosophers, including Norman Malcolm, Morris Lazerowitz, and Ronald E. Hustwit. After his death in Austin, Texas in 1978, Bouwsma was survived by his wife, Gretchen (later Gretchen Bouwsma Bos), and his three children, Charles E. Bouwsma, William J. Bouwsma, and Gretchen Bouwsma Emmons.
Sources:
In addition to materials within the collection, the following sources were used:
Bouwsma, Oets Kolk (1898-1978). In The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, edited by John R. Shook, v.1, 298. Bristol: Thoemmes, 2015.
Bouwsma, O. K.
Wittgenstein: Conversations, 1949-1951. Edited by J. L. Craft and Ronald E. Hustwit. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1986.
Malcolm, Norman.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.
Scope and Contents
The O. K. Bouwsma Papers, 1907-1988 (bulk 1925-1978) consist of journals, notepads, correspondence, notes, lectures, essays, articles, clippings, drawings, invitations, receipts, and printed material related to the American philosopher O. K. Bouwsma. The papers are organized into two series, I. Journals and Notepads, 1925-1978 and II. Seminar Notes, Correspondence, and Other Works, 1907-1988.
Series I. contains Bouwsma’s handwritten journals and notepads, arranged mainly in chronological order. The journals are mostly dated and run from 1925 through 1957, with some gaps in years, notably between 1925 and 1932. Entries in the journals run consecutively and are chiefly personal in nature, recording Bouwsma’s responses to books he reads and sermons he hears, discussions with colleagues, thoughts on government and education, and reflections about himself, family, and friends. Ronald E. Hustwit created the descriptions of the journals’ contents transcribed in the container list while reviewing microfilmed copies of the originals; these descriptions are not intended as a comprehensive list of topics contained in the journals.
Bouwsma’s notepads are arranged mainly in chronological order, spanning the years 1955 through 1978. Some notepads overlap in date, as Bouswma took notes on various topics during the same period, while others continue Bouswma’s notes on a particular topic from the previous pad. Philosophy professor John P. Murphy abstracted the contents of the notepads and assigned numbers to the pads. These pad numbers and descriptions are transcribed in the container list. The notepads generally record Bouwsma’s thoughts on topics in philosophy, specific philosophers, and works of philosophical thought and may include preliminary notes for essays and articles that later were published. A few folders contain newspaper clippings on general topics (apparently unrelated to the contents of the accompanying notepad) and correspondence. Correspondence in this series is indexed at the end of this finding aid.
Series II. Seminar Notes, Correspondence, and Other Works, 1907-1988 predominantly consists of Bouwsma’s handwritten and typewritten notes for seminars and lectures, with a small amount of other materials. The first five boxes in this series were described and numbered by John P. Murphy; his cataloging numbers are reproduced in each folder’s description in the container list, but do not correspond to the current box and folder numbers. Besides class notes, lecture notes, and class handouts, the series contains correspondence, works by other authors, offprints of articles by Bouwsma, clippings, drawings, invitations, receipts, and printed material. Correspondence is indexed at the end of this finding aid and includes letters from such notable correspondents as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Yorick Smythies. Of particular interest in Series II are Bouwsma’s annotated copies of Wittgenstein’s Blue Book and Brown Book. These are bound typescripts of Wittgenstein’s lecture notes prepared by his assistants at the University of Cambridge that were distributed to Wittgenstein’s students and colleagues during his lifetime and published posthumously as a single volume. Many of Bouwsma’s entries in the handwritten notepads filed in Series I refer to the Blue Book, and to a lesser extent, the Brown Book.
Acquisition:
Gift, 1978-2002 (G 4, G 302, G 972, G 1064, G 2020, G 8838, G 8867, G 9991, G 10507, G 10583, G 11455, G 12151, G 12123)
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Index Terms
People
Bouwsma, O.K.
Subjects
Philosophers--United States.
Philosophy.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Document Types
Clippings.
Correspondence.
Drawings.
Essays.
Journals.
Manuscripts.
Notebooks.
Typescripts.
Preferred Citation
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. O. K. Bouwsma Papers (Manuscript Collection MS-00473).
Processed by:
Ronald E. Hustwit, Holly A. Hustwit, and Henry Moore, 1991; Ancelyn Krivak, 2018
Separated Material
93 books from the personal library of O. K. Bouwsma were transferred to the Ransom Center Library. These books are cataloged online in The University of Texas Library Catalog.
An audiocassette of O. K. Bouwsma reading from his notebooks on his conversations with Ludwig Wittgenstein was transferred to the Center's Sound Recordings Collection and is described separately in the Center’s Sound Recordings Database, available in the Center’s Reading and Viewing Room.
VHS and DVD recordings of
Remembering O. K. Bouwsma: an interview with Chuck Bouwsma and Gretchen Bouwsma Emmons were transferred to the Center's Moving Image Collection and are described separately in the Center’s Moving Image Database, available in the Center’s Reading and Viewing Room.
Container List
Series I. Journals and Notepads,
1925-1978
Journals
11925, 1932, 1934-1936, undated: Notes on various philosophy books for class/ Notes on books of literature, perhaps for teaching English literature/ Some family matters/ General philosophical reflections/ Education
1-21936-1939: Joyce's Ulysses/ Ethics/ Logic/ Government/ Education/ Discussions with Langford/ Review of minister's sermons/ Family
21939-1943: Travels to Southampton/ Notes from Alice's copy of the Blue Book/ Travels in New England/ Back in Lincoln/ Talk of war/ The minister's sermons on pacifism/ More books of philosophy and literature/ The war/ Literature-discussion of various books/ Pride/ Dante
2-31943-1949: Hedonism/ Politics/ Religious belief/ Literature: Milton, War and Peace/ Bill's wedding/ Pleasure/ Chuck in the war/ Pride/ Literature and various philosophers/ Swift/ Collingwood/ Plato/ Trip to Holland/ Religious themes/ Liberalism in politics/ Wittgenstein's conversations/ Some other conversations mixed in/ Smith College
31950-1951, 1953-1954, 1957: Religion/ Morals/ General readings/ Discussion with philosophers in Oxford/ Travel in Europe (People, places, and books)/ Notes for classes on discussions and books
Notepads
4.1Pad 1.1, October 1955 (England): Smythies on Non-Logical Falsity/ Acton's class in ethics/ Ethics
4.2Pad 1.2, January 1956 - February 1956 (England): The meaning of words/ Hume/ Kant/ Melden/ Ethics/ Moral rules-playing chess/ Use of a word/ Smythies’s notes
4.3Pad 1.3, March 1956 - April 1956 (Seattle): Language/ Psychology/ What is thinking/ Russell: Analysis of Mind/ Hume
4.4Pad 1.4, April 1956 - May 1956 (Seattle): Hume/ Smullyan and Dietrichson on dreaming/ Hume existence
4.5Pad 1.5, April 1956 - September 1956 (Seattle and Lincoln): Dreaming/ Hume/ Philosophy/ Meaning is use/ Language
4.6Pad 1.6, May 1956 - August 1956 (Seattle, California): Free-will/ Hume on personal identity
4.7Pad 1.7, April 1956 - July 1956 (Lake Tahoe, Claremont): Christianity/ Sartre/ Death/ Freud/ Sin/ Meaning is use
4.8Pad 1.8, April 1956 - May 1956: Hume on abstract ideas and continued existence
4.9Pad 1.9, May 1956 - August 1958 (Seattle, Claremont): Hume/ Free-will/ Philosophical Investigations reading
4.10Pad 1.10, May 1956 - August 1956 (California): Free-will/ Smythies’s notes on Non-logical Falsity/ Hume on personal identity
4.11Pad 1.11, March 1958 - June 1958: Joyce's Ulysses/ Berkeley/ Pain/ Baptism/ John Cook-private experience/ Self/ Religious language and Christianity
4.12Pad 1.12, May 1958 - June 1958: Philosophy of religion/ Religious language/ God exists/ Anselm's argument
4.13Pad 1.13, June 1958 - July 1958: Philosophy of religion (Conference in Minnesota)
4.14Pad 1.14, July 1958 - August 1958: Wittgenstein: Will (Philosophical Investigations)/ Mean/ Grammar/ Giving orders
5.1Pad 1.15a, August 1958 - September 1958: Infants/ Meaning-use-words as tools
5.2Pad 1.15b, October 1958 - November 1958 (Pad fragment): Gospels/ Literature/ Locke/ Job/ José
5.3Pad 1.16, September 1958 - January 1959: Meaning and use/ Rich-poor/ Criticism/ Meaning/ Dewey/ Time/ Remarks on Wittgenstein notes and on Malcolm's Memoir/ Seeing stars/ What is thinking?
5.4Pad 1.17a, September 1958 - November 1958: Aesthetics/ Beauty-form/ Lowell/ Notes from Underground and Smythies/ Meaning
5.5Pad 1.17b, December 1958 - January 1959: Theaetetus/ Thinking is an event/ Truth/ Christmas/ Malcolm's sour taste/ Emotion in Art/ Dewey and perception
5.6Pad 1.18, January 1959 - April 1959: Soul/ Blue Book: pain/ Phaedo-Apology/ What I do/ Phaedo-soul/ Reading/ Aristotle-predicates
5.7Pad 1.19, January 1959 - May 1959: Morals-what to do/ New Testament/ Philosophical Investigations-expecting, hoping, anger/ Blue Book/ Every event has a cause/ Private experience/ Solipsism
5.8Pad 1.20, January 1959 - May 1959: Phaedo/ Aristotle-cause and substance
5.9Pad 1.21, February 1959 - August 1959: Apology/ Christianity-Jesus/ Wittgenstein-philosophy and ordinary language
5.10Pad 1.22, February 27 - May 1959: Brown Book/ Blue Book/ Ordinary language
5.11Pad 1.23, April 1959 - June 1959: Romeo and Juliet/ Aristotle predicates/ Wittgenstein/ G.E. Moore/ Confusion
5.12Pad 1.24, June 1959 - September 1959: Blue Book/ Descartes-I think/ Blue Book
6.1Pad 1.25, June 1959 - September 1959: Memory/ Berkeley's apple/ Descartes/ Christianity/ C.S. Lewis/ Wittgenstein-Blue Book: many topics
6.2Pad 1.26, July 1959: Wittgenstein: Meaning/ The mind is in the brain/ Blue Book/ Speaking-writing-understanding/ Thinking/ Machines can't have toothaches/ Machines Thinking?/ Perception
6.3Pad 1.27, September 1959 - October 1959: Blue Book/ Operating with signs/ Expecting/ Wishing/ Zeno's paradoxes-Achilles/ Blue Book/ Hidden analogies
6.4Pad 1.28, September 1959: Blue Book/ Grammar/ What is not the case
6.5Pad 1.29, September 1959 - October 1959: Books and themes of the Bible
6.6Pad 1.30, October 1959: Locke/ Plato
6.7Pad 1.31, September 1959 - December 1959: Locke/ Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein/ Note on Wittgenstein's task in philosophy/ Meaning/ Blue Book/ What Wittgenstein is doing/ Biblical themes/ Stoicism/ What sort of book is the Blue Book? (These are the notes for Bouwsma's paper The Blue Book)/ Alice Ambrose’s letter/ Blue Book themes
6.8Pad 1.32, October 1959 - May 1960: Locke-text analysis
6.9Pad 1.33, October 1959 - June 1960: Smythies: Non-logical falsity (connected to Wittgenstein)/ Jokes/ Locke/ Wittgenstein: What is he doing?/ Blue Book/ More preparation for writing Blue Book paper/ Sense and nonsense
6.10Pad 1.34, October 1959 - November 1960: Locke-text analysis/ St. Paul/ Thinking/ Locke
6.11Pad 1.35, January 1961- March 1960: Kierkegaard's existentialism/ Blue Book: Russell and wishing/ Pascal/ Tolstoy: How much land...?/ Seeing an ashtray/ Ethics and literature/ Anselm's argument/ Sin/ Belief/ Meaning is use/ Tractatus/ Philosophical Investigations
6.12Pad 1.36, January 1960 - March 1960: Wittgenstein: various themes in the Blue Book/ Feigl's paper on ordinary language
7.1Pad 1.37, January 1960 - March 1960: Blue Book continued/ Queerness/ Rules/ Notes for paper on: The Terms of Ordinary Language are.../ Feigl/ What is Wittgenstein doing?/ Feigl and ordinary language
7.2Pad 1.38, March 1960: Beauty-taste/ Queerness/ Feigl and ordinary language/ Rules
7.3Pad 1.39, March 1960 - November 1960: Feigl continued/ Rules/ What is Wittgenstein doing?/ Notes from Underground/ St. Anselm
7.4Pad 1.40, April 1960 - June 1960: Themes in the Blue Book/ Understanding Wittgenstein
7.5Pad 1.41, June 1960 - July 1960: Locke/ Wittgenstein: Understanding the Blue Book/ Discussion/ Queerness/ Temptation
7.6Pad 1.42, August 1960 - September 1960: Descartes's Meditations/ Talk of God/ Start of a paper on Wittgenstein, discussing Hobbes/ Descartes's doubt/ Reading the Bible/ Remarks on meetings with Wittgenstein
7.7Pad 1.43, September 1960 - November 1960: Wittgenstein-other philosophers/ Descartes's doubt-illusion-dreaming/ Giving reasons/ Wittgenstein-expectation Blue Book/ Reading literature-value/ Notes from Underground
7.8Pad 1.44, September 1960 - November 1960: Descartes-illusions/ Socrates/ Words-grammar/ Descartes-thinking/ Dreaming/ Expectation
7.9Pad 1.45, October 1960 - January 1960: Kierkegaard/ Wittgenstein: expecting/ Rights/ This is a glass of water/ Tithing/ Knoll's teaching English/ Motives and actions/ Anselm's argument
7.10Pad 1.46, June 1960 - July 1960: Manuscript of The Blue Book/ Achilles and The Tortoise
8.1Pad 2.1, January 1961 - June 1961: Evan's glass of water/ Jesus-existentialism/ Anselm/ What is art?/ Nielsen and Pascal/ Freedom and necessity/ Church sermons/ Reasons for Bouwsma's transferring church membership
8.2Pad 2.2, January 1961 - February 1961: Anselm's Argument (looks like notes for the paper)
8.3Pad 2.3, February 1961 - May 1961: What is art?/ All men are selfish/ Socrates/ Class discussions/ The children's sermon-awful/ Proverbs/ Job/ Investigations/ More on Children's sermons/ Hamlet/ I don't know/ Evil in Genesis
8.4Pad 2.4, April 1961 - June 1961: Propositions-Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations
8.5Pad 2.5, June 1961 - July 1961: Descartes’s cogito
8.6Pad 2.6, July 1961 - August 1961: Descartes’s cogito and additional themes in Meditations/ Notes on the Cogito
8.7Pad 2.7, July 1961 - November 1961: Miss Anscombe on Tractatus/ Ordinary language/ Cogito/ The cause of joy in music
8.8Pad 2.8, August 1961 - November 1961: Morality-character/ Blue Book/ Descartes’s cogito/ Miscellaneous-art, music
8.9Pad 2.9, September 1961 - February 1962: Cogito/ The Tempest/ Thinking/ Dreams/ Kierkegaard/ Descartes/ Socrates-Glaucon on justice/ Recollection
8.10Pad 2.10, September 1961 - November 1962: Socrates (2 pages)/ Descartes’s Meditations (remaining pages)
8.11Pad 2.11, October 1961 - March 1962: Augustine-Philosophical Investigations/ What is knowledge?/ Descartes/ Behaviorism/ Dreams
9.1Pad 2.12, November 1961 - May 1962: Hedonism/ Existence is not a predicate/ Private language/ Carl Rogers/ Paige
9.2Pad 2.13, November 1961 - December 1961: Hedonism/ Punishment/ Notes from Underground/ Gorgias/ Hedonism
9.3Pad 2.14, December 1961 - March 1962: The earth is flat-skepticism/ What is John Dewey up to?/ Plato-Republic/ Pain-hedonism/ Phaedo/ Aesthetics
9.4Pad 2.15, December 1961 - March 1962: Natural rights/ Descartes/ Plato-Phaedo/ Descartes/ The ring of Gyges-Descartes’s I/ Thinking-Pascal
9.5Pad 2.16, January 1962 - March 1962: Descartes/ Phaedo/ Philosophical Investigations/ Descartes/ Behaviorism
9.6Pad 2.17, February 1962 - March 1962: Phaedo-recollection/ Pain
9.7Pad 2.18, March 1962 - May 1962: Dreaming/ Theaetetus/ Letter to Evans on common-sense philosophy/ Descartes’s dreaming/ Philosophical Investigations #75/ Frank (Ebersole)’s paper-seeing stars
9.8Pad 2.19, April 1962 - October 1962: Wittgenstein-activity/ Frank's star/ Carl Rogers/ Socrates-knowledge/ Sartre and existentialism/ Travel to Santa Barbara/ Philosophy of religion/ Camus-The Myth/ The Fall
9.9Pad 2.20, May 1962 - September 1962: Sartre/ Dreaming/ Wittgenstein/ Biblical passages/ Cook-behaviorism/ The Fall
10.1Pad 2.21, June 1962 - November 1962: Consciousness and unconsciousness/ The Preacher in Ecclesiastes: The meaning of a human life/ The unconscious/ God/ Negation/ Christian morality/ Plato: Art is imitation/ Philosophical theories/ Intention
10.2Pad 2.22, October 1962 – February 1963: John Wisdom: On Gods/ Descartes’s dream argument: Objective reality of ideas/ Third Meditation/ Fourth Meditation with remarks about Wittgenstein/ What was Wittgenstein doing?/ Kierkegaard: the Unknown
10.3Pad 2.23, November 1962 - January 1963: Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations: Beetle in the box/ Faith/ Promises: from Matthew/ Hume: Impressions/ Comparison of Wittgenstein and Hume/ Hume: nothing/ Clemence and the haunting memory/ Wittgenstein and Descartes's Meditations
10.4Pad 2.24, November 1962 - November 1963: Understanding Wittgenstein/ Descartes/ Consciousness-Body-Soul/ What is knowledge?/ Dread
10.5Pad 2.25, December 1962 - November 1963: Impressions/ Freud's techniques/ Hume: images/ Clemence/ Meaning and knowledge-Socrates/ Kierkegaard: dread/ Wishing-unconscious
10.6Pad 2.26, February 1963 - April 1963: Descartes: Mind-Body-Soul/ Marx: value/ Kierkegaard: dread/ Wittgenstein: What is thinking?/ Descartes-I think is indubitable
10.7Pad 2.27, April 1963 - May 1963: Wittgenstein and Descartes: The Cogito and Indubitables
10.8Pad 2.28, June 1963 - November 1963: Religious scripture and language/ Notes on Wittgenstein (from Amsterdam)
10.9Pad 2.29, October 1963 - January 1964: The Writer: in Religious scripture/ Notes from Underground/ Clemence/ Kierkegaard: dread
10.10Pad 2.30, October 1963 - December 1963: Hume and Wittgenstein: The nature of meaning-ideas and images/ Cause and effect
11.1Pad 2.31, June 1963 - January 1965: Meditations/ Cogito/ Dream argument/ Doubt/ I am sitting by the fire/ What is thought?/ Austin: to know or to think/ Resolution of doubt/ Meaning-Ryle and Mill/ Names/ Kierkegaard: reason and understanding Christianity/ Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments
11.2Pad 2.32, December 1963 - March 1964: Kierkegaard on Christianity/ Paganism/ Fighting/ Racial prejudice/ Meaning of word/ Other minds/ Hume and Reason (on being a person p. 172)/ Wittgenstein: I/ Beetle in the box example/ Kierkegaard on resolution (the meaning of life)/ The consciousness of sin/ Blue Book: Experiences/ Perception/ Russell on perception/ Real temptation/ Solipsism/ Expectations and reality/ Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on Christianity/ Christianity as historic and scientific/ Christ/ Essence and existence/ Respect/ Smythies on non-logical falsity/ Rules/ Kierkegaard on Fear and Trembling
11.3Pad 2.33, November 1963 - February 1964: Other minds/ The Concept of Dread: Original sin, despair, appropriation, unconscious, infinitude/ The Postscript/ The meaning of life/ Existentialism/ Kierkegaard's objective uncertainty and Socrates/ Camus’s The Plague/ The Brothers Karamazov
11.4Pad 2.34, January 1964 - February 1964: Hume's Enquiry: Cause and effect/ Human Reason/ Foundation/ Natural objects/ Human nature/ Belief/ Conception/ Ideas and impressions/ Hume and Locke on necessary connection/ Absolute incertitude/ Ultimate constituents/ Memory/ Feeling and imagination/ What Hume is doing in the Enquiry/ Berkeley's introduction to the Principles: doubt and uncertainty/ Natural immorality of the soul/ Reality/ Kant on truth/ Russell's Common Sense theory
11.5Pad 2.35, March 1964 - June 1964: Wittgenstein on solipsism/ Russell on perception/ Kierkegaard on Fear and Trembling/ Camus: The Myth/ Hume on cause and effect/ Dread-despair/ Kierkegaard on possibility/ Berkeley on thought and perception/ Body and soul/ The Existential Thinker (Socrates)/ The Apology/ Wittgenstein on meaning/ Smythies on language/ Rogers on Kierkegaard/ Kierkegaard on Christianity
11.6Pad 2.36, March 1964 - May 1964: Systematic confusion/ Russell on perception/ Revelation (Tillich and Barth)/ Kierkegaard on revelation/ Blue Book: on reason, cause, motive, and rules/ John Dewey/ Russell on matters of fact/ Berkeley on operation of the mind/ Smart on brain processes/ Berkeley: Ideas and perception
11.7Pad 2.37, March 1964 - August 1964: The Brothers Karamazov/ Fear and Trembling/ Russell on perception/ Freedom/ Camus on the meaning of life and suicide/ Blanshard and Christianity/ Kierkegaard on revelation/ Metzger/ Ivan and Christianity/ Wittgenstein on expectations in Blue Book/ Newton/ Communication and irony
11.8Pad 2.38, May 1964 - August 1964: Berkeley on sensation and spirit/ Hume on principles/ Other minds (Socrates)/ The Brothers Karamazov/ Kierkegaard on Christianity: despair, spirit, and passion
11.9Pad 2.39, June 1964 - August 1964: Berkeley/ Peter's denial (The Brothers Karamazov)/ Kierkegaard on Christianity, subjectivity (Socrates)/ Philosophy and Hegel/ The subjective thinker (all from The Fragments)/ Ways of reading the Bible
11.10Pad 2.40, July 1964 - Sept. 1964: All from The Fragments: the Subjective Thinker/ Reason and Motive/ The Brothers Karamazov (Ivan)/ Socrates/ Christianity/ Frankena on Love and Principles/ Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on Christianity/ Philosophy and Christianity
12.1Pad 2.41, August 1964 - Fall 1964: Philosophy of Christianity/ Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard/ Kierkegaard: Indirect communications/ Subjective thinker/ Socrates/ Truth-Fragments/ Notes on Malcolm's paper on Descartes
12.2Pad 2.42, August 1964 - September 1964: Blue Book/ Kierkegaard: Indirect communications/ Kierkegaard: Reading scripture/ Subjectivity/ Postscript/ Virginia Woolf-the ethical/ Fragments/ Notes on Malcolm's paper on Descartes
12.3Pad 2.43, September 1964 - October 1964: Kierkegaard: Fragments/ Postscript/ Socrates-truth within/ Fragments
12.4Pad 2.44, October 1964 - January 1965: Kierkegaard: Christianity, foolishness/ Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein's tasks/ Indirect communication/ What is Kierkegaard doing?/ Hartshorne’s letter/ The Unknown
12.5Pad 2.45, November 1964 - February 1965: Kierkegaard: Fragments/ Martin’s proof for God/ Truth is subjectivity/ The Unknown/ Kierkegaard's Socrates/ Becoming subjective
12.6Pad 2.46, November 1964 - February 1965: Kierkegaard: Postscript/ Language of scripture/ Indirect communications/ Proof for God/ Fear and Trembling/ Martin's proof/ Absolute Paradox/ Fragments
12.7Pad 3.1, February 1965 - July 1965: Kierkegaard: Sickness Unto Death/ Kierkegaard: Objectivity-subjectivity/ Evan's Two language theory/ Kierkegaard: The highest task/ Memory/ Philosophical Investigations passages/ Socrates and Polemarchus
12.8Pad 3.2, March 1965 - September 1965: Kierkegaard: Postscript/ Subjectivity/ The ethical/ Private theater/ Initial Expression/ Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations/ Guilt/ Moore's good/ Hume on meaning/ Augustine on meaning/ Austin on excuses
12.9Pad 3.3, March 1965 - May 1965: Kierkegaard: Themes in Postscript/ Notes for Hartshorne on Leibniz/ Ayer: Appearances/ Faith/ Kierkegaard: Postscript
13.1Pad 3.4, April 1965 - June 1965: Kierkegaard: The ethical/ World historical knowledge/ Baier on Tolstoy/ Postscript: existential pathos/ The knight of faith/ Postscript/ Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations
13.2Pad 3.5, May 1965 - June 1965: Guilt/ Language/ Good/ Kierkegaard/ Wittgenstein/ St. Augustine on Language/ Early passages in Philosophical Investigations
13.3Pad 3.6, January 1965 - February 1965: Kierkegaard: Postscript/ The historical/ Fragments: The Interlude/ Past is necessary/ Thought as brain process/ Kierkegaard's tasks/ Conclusion to Postscripts/ Formation of concepts/ Kierkegaard: forgiveness of sin
13.4Pad 3.7, June 1965 - July 1965: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations/ Little languages/ Justice/ Pain/ Meaning as use/ Grammar/ Philosophical Investigations 400-500s/ Certainty
13.5Pad 3.8, July 1965 - August 1965: Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations passages
13.6Pad 3.9, July 1965 - October 1965: Philosophical Investigations/ Meaning/ Existence a predicate?/ Knowledge/ Philosophy a disease/ Words/ Understanding Wittgenstein/ Alice in Wonderland: sense and nonsense (an attempt at a paper)/ Teaching reading: e.g., Hume on perception (draft of paper)/ Language games
13.7Pad 3.10, Fall 1965 and July 1966 - October 1966: Draft of paper on Alice in Wonderland-sense and reading/ Reading/ Understanding philosophers/ Philosophical Investigations/ Meaning/ Reading Hume
13.8Pad 3.11, September 1965 - October 1965: William James’ Principles of Psychology/ Wittgenstein's lectures on psychology/ What is thinking?/ Philosophical Investigations passages
13.9Pad 3.12, October 1965 (pad fragment): slab
13.10Pad 3.13, October 1965 - November 1965: Austin's illocutionary acts/ Justice/ Ordinary language/ Searle/ Lorenzen
13.11Pad 3.14, November 1965 (pad fragment): Religious anguish/ Philosophical undertones
13.12Pad 3.15, November 1965, January 1974: '65: I said to myself/ Thinking/ '74: Nietzsche
14.1Pad 3.16, November 1965 - December 1965: Lorenzen's logic/ Murphy's comments on Lorenzen's paper/ Wittgenstein and behaviorism/ Heredity and behavior/ Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground
14.2Pad 3.17, November 1965 - January 1966: Responsibility/ Determination
14.3Pad 3.18, December 1965 - January 1966: Mainly Kierkegaard and Socrates/ Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations-perspective/ Kierkegaard’s purpose/ Kierkegaard and Socrates/ Objectivity vs. subjectivity
14.4Pad 3.19, December 1965 - January 1966: Kierkegaard: indirect communication/ Postscript/ Fragments/ Point of View-illusion
14.5Pad 3.20, December 1965 - January 1965: Self is a Series of Actual Occasions (Whitehead)/ Describe not explain/ Wittgenstein/ Reading student notebooks
14.6Pad 3.21, January 1966 - April 1966: Wittgenstein seminar discussions/ Lorenzen/ Meno/ Knowledge and perception/ Descartes’s dreaming
14.7Pad 3.22, January 1966 - February 1966: Kierkegaard's Illusions/ Socrates/ Wisdom/ Kierkegaard's Socrates
14.8Pad 3.23, April 1966: Kierkegaard: Point of View/ Illusion/ Fragments
14.9Pad 3.24, April 1966 - July 1966: Wittgenstein: Discussions with Hugly and Lorenzen on mathematics/ Cogito/ Blue Book/ Meaning of a word
14.10Pad 3.25, April 1966 - February 1967: Kierkegaard: Faith/ Despair/ Sickness Unto Death/ Subjective thinker/ Ontological argument/ Faith
14.11Pad 3.26, Spring 1966: John Wisdom: The Logic of God/ Metaphysics/ Kierkegaard: Fragments/ Pictures (looks like paper on Without Proof or Evidence)
15.1Pad 3.27, 1966: John Wisdom: Religious belief/ Metaphysics/ Commentary on Wittgenstein's techniques regarding the meaning of Language/ Contrast between Wisdom and Wittgenstein
15.2Pad 3.28, 1966: John Wisdom: Metaphysical bewilderment/ Existentialism/ Flew's thinking and experience/ General essays
15.3Pad 3.29, January 1966 - March 1966: Wittgenstein on Influence (a graduate seminar)/ The Meno
15.4Pad 3.30, January 1966 - March 1966: Kierkegaard: Christianity and the meaning of a word/ Illusions/ Don Quixote/ Subjectivity and objectivity/ Comparison of Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on some of these topics
15.5Pad 3.31, June 1966: Paper notes on Poetry Becomes Truth or Truth Becomes Poetry given to Bouwsma to read by Douglas Morgan/ Wittgenstein on Christianity, ethics, and aesthetics in connection with poetry/ Carritt on poems and illusion/ Santayana
15.6Pad 3.32, July 1966 - September 1966 (Calgary): Student remarks (Levinson and Kipur) on understanding and truth/ Wittgenstein: misleading pictures/ Wisdom: religious belief and metaphysics/ Review of Wisdom’s Paradox and Discovery and The Logic of God (review by Bouwsma)
15.7Pad 3.33, August 1966 - December 1966: Poetry/ Aesthetics/ Wisdom/ Ryle: Mind and other minds, emotion/ Responsibility/ The Will/ Wittgenstein on words and meaning (in Philosophical Investigations)/ Locke on objects and the understanding/ Language
15.8Pad 3.34, October 1966 - December 1966: Student comments on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations sections regarding meaning and use, knowledge, objectivity, and sensation/ Plato and Hume in contrast to Wittgenstein
15.9Pad 3.35, November 1965 - December 1965: Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations, phenomena/ Determinism/ What is thinking?/ Mill/ Wittgenstein
15.10Pad 3.36, December 1966 - January 1967: Wittgenstein: Problem-Probe A Change in Attitude (Locke and Kant)/ Blue Book-Ordinary Language/ Kant: The dialectic/ The Grammar of Science/ Locke: on meaning/ Körner’s paper on the Impossibility of the Transcendental Deduction/ Understanding and Knowledge/ The Illusion of understanding
16.1Pad 3.37, Winter 1966 - February 1967: What is Wittgenstein doing?/ Moore: the envelope/ Sense-data
16.2Pad 3.38, January 1967 - February 1967: Wittgenstein: Getting perspective on Wittgenstein/ Double-talk/Illusion of understanding/ Paper notes for Double-talk, Jackie Vernon, and X
16.3Pad 3.39, March 1967: Notes on Silber's paper: on dreaming/ Moore on material objects/ Silber on morality/ Pascal
16.4Pad 3.40, February 1967 - December 1967: Pascal's wager
16.5Pad 3.41, March 1968 - February 1969: Notes on someone else's writing/ Blue Book
16.6Pad 3.42, March 1967 - May 1967: Moore on student's remarks/ Weddle's thesis/ Moore: real/Lorenzen on morality/ Comments on miscellaneous student and colleague’s remarks/ Kierkegaard
16.7Pad 3.43, May 1967 - July 1967: Evil genius/ Moore's envelope/ Koch on psychology/ Sense-data/ Ronald Hustwit's double vision/ Religious themes/ Evidence for Christianity/ Kierkegaard's A and B/ Initial Expression/ Humor/ Subjectivity
16.8Pad 3.44, July 1967 - September 1967: Religious language/ Religious themes/ Jere Jones on Kierkegaard (dissertation)/ No arguments and evidence for Christianity/ Kimmel's thesis/ Kierkegaard
16.9Pad 3.45, September 1967 - October 1967 (pad fragment): The meaning of a word
16.10Pad 3.46, October 1967 - December 1967: Kierkegaard: Death/ Meaning/ Either-Or/ Desire/ K's Journals/ Fear and Trembling/ The Unhappiest Man/ Fragments/ Stages
17.1Pad 3.47, October 1967 - March 1968: Wittgenstein: The Meaning of a word/ Selections from Blue Book/ General reflections on philosophy and Wittgenstein 's approach in Philosophical Investigations
17.2Pad 3.48, October 1967 - May 1968: Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations: The meaning of a word/ What is thinking?/ Forms/ What is sensation?/ St. Augustine: Book XI, chapter XIV
17.3Pad 3.49, November 1967 - January 1968: Christianity (Faith) and Evidence
17.4Pad 3.50, January 1968 - March 1968: Understanding faith and belief in Christianity: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein, other writers/ Paper on Miss Anscombe's paper on faith
17.5Pad 4.1, February 1968 - May 1968: Understanding Nietzsche: Ecce Homo/ Beyond Good and Evil/ The Birth of Tragedy-(the death of Christianity)/ An account of the Larry Caroline incident
17.6Pad 4.2, September 1968 - October 1968: The concept of meaning/ Brewer's definition of a word/ Wittgenstein
17.7Pad 4.3, October 1968 - January 1969: Ordinary Language (a paper read in Cincinnati)/ Notes from Cincinnati/ What is knowledge?/ Remarks about Binkley/ Wanting/ What do philosophers try to do?/ Morality
17.8Pad 4.4, December 1968: Nietzsche: Who was he? (preparation for writing Intro on Nietzsche's letters)
17.9Pad 4.5, December 1968 - January 1969: Nietzsche: A Fool's Paradise/ Carl Fucher letter/ Irony and language (Socrates)/ Thought (Water is not wet example)/ Vendler on language/ Nietzsche and Voltaire on Christianity
18.1Pad 4.6, April 1968 - June 1968 (Berkeley): Miss Anscombe on faith/ Remarks on student’s work/ Kierkegaard's: double-reflection/ Wittgenstein's art
18.2Pad 4.7, August 1967 - October 1967 (Berkeley, Austin): Ken Smith's paper/ Kimmel on Hume/ Moore/ Kierkegaard: themes in Postscript/ Review of book by John Wisdom
18.3Pad 4.8, June 1968 - July 1968 (Berkeley): Wittgenstein-sense/ American people violent/ Nietzsche/ Ordinary Language is alright/ Remarks in Zettel
18.4Pad 4.9, July 1968 - September 1968 (Berkeley): Zettel/ Ordinary language/ Paper at Oregon: I think/ John Cook-Philosophical Investigations 43/ Memory/ St. Augustine-ordinary language/ Zettel passages/ (Last page) an account of Miss Anscombe and Wittgenstein in Oxford and Smythies with Wittgenstein
18.5Pad 4.10, March 1968 - September 1968: Miss Anscombe: On faith/ Genealogy of Morals/ Scattered remarks on Kierkegaard and Nietzsche/ Ordinary language relevant/ Meaning of a word
18.6Pad 4.11, September 1968 - January 1969: Nietzsche/ Caroline's paper on injustice/ Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling/ Fragments/ Middleton's translation of Nietzsche's letters/ Belief/ Fragments/ Abraham-faith/ Human condition/ Ecclesiastes/ Death and faith
18.7Pad 4.12, October 1968 - November 1968: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations 258f/ The Relevance of Ordinary Language (a paper)/ Nietzsche/ Kierkegaard and the Unknown/ Nietzsche
18.8Pad 4.13, Fall 1968: Nietzsche: Pages of quotes and discussion at end
18.9Pad 4.14, January 1969 - February 1969: Miscellaneous topics/ Nietzsche/ Wasteland/ What is faith?/ What God?/ Work on paper on faith
19.1Pad 4.15, January 1969: Language and the spirit/ Camus/ Russell/ Ecclesiastes/ Bewilderment/ Kierkegaard and Christianity
19.2Pad 4.16, February 1969 - March 1969: Wittgenstein: The Philosophical Investigations-language and essence, usage, and predicates/ Christianity
19.3Pad 4.17, February 1969 - March 1969: Christianity: The Scriptures and truth, bewilderment, encounter and commitment, believers and non-believers
19.4Pad 4.18, February 1969 - March 1969: Nietzsche and Kierkegaard: truth, Christianity and the language-game/ Cowan and Christianity/ McIntyre's paper entitled Ought
19.5Pad 4.19, February 1969 - April 1969: Wittgenstein: Pain/ Scientology: the knowledge of knowing/ Understanding/ What is speaking?/ To wish/ Language and grammar/ Red exists from the Philosophical Investigations/ Impressions
19.6Pad 4.20, March 1969 - April 1969: MacIntyre: The issue of ought/ Wittgenstein's example of a moral problem/ The illusion of intelligibility-nonsense/ Moore's defense of common sense/ Why study philosophy?/ Heidegger/ Kierkegaard and Nietzsche/ Happiness/ War and peace
19.7Pad 4.21, May 1969 - June 1969: The meaning of life/ Nietzsche/ Kierkegaard on Christianity
19.8Pad 4.22, May 1969: Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations: language and usage, describe the aroma of coffee, pain, truth, and application/ Theories/ Primary Qualities/ Bufford’s thesis/ Nietzsche's illusion of intelligibility
19.9Pad 4.23, June 1969 - July 1969: Berkeley/ Kierkegaard on Christianity/ Wittgenstein: The picture of language from the Philosophical Investigations, ordinary way(s) of speaking/ Stevens's Essay
19.10Pad 4.24, June 1969 - July 1969: Mainly Wallace Stevens/ Davis’s thesis/ Poetic and philosophic truth/ Plato/ Plantinga/ Christianity/ Kierkegaard on Christianity and truth/ Cezanne´s Primary Force/ Pincoffs on virtue/ Graham Greene
20.1Pad 4.25, July 1969 (Berkeley): Erde's thesis/ Hustwit's thesis (religious language)/ Comments on Dr. Johnson and The Stone
20.2Pad 4.26, July 1969-August 1969 (Berkeley): Hustwit's thesis (religious language)/ Education/ Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard/ God is spirit
20.3Pad 4.27, August 1969 (Berkeley): Kierkegaard: What does it mean to become a Christian? (entire pad)
20.4Pad 4.28, August 1969 - September 1969 (Berkeley, Austin): Kierkegaard: The Initial Expression/ The Problem Itself/ Religiousness A and B/ Frankena on ethics (lengthy discussion of a book)/ What is moral philosophy?
20.5Pad 4.29, September 1969 - October 1969: Blue Book: Philosophical problems unsolvable/ Meaning of a word/ Locke on meaning
20.6Pad 4.30, October 1969 - March 1969: Miscellaneous notes on student discussions/ Glenn on Gray's paper on violence/ Kierkegaard: A thinker (lengthy)
20.7Pad 4.31, October 1969: Blue Book: Meaning of a word/ The life of a sign/ Intention
20.8Pad 4.32, October 1969: Blue Book: Meaning of a word/ Color blindness/ Grammar/ Substantive
20.9Pad 4.33, October 1969 - December 1969: Blue Book: Pain/ Philosophical Investigations 647/ Intention/ Language and thought/ Dreams
20.10Pad 4.34, November 1969: Blue Book: Signs/ Newton's laws/ Language as spectacles/ Time/ Expectation
21.1Pad 4.35, November 1969 - December 1969: Blue Book: Use/ Skinner/ Thinking/ Murphy and logic/ Notes on Kierkegaard continued from earlier pad
21.2Pad 4.36, December 1969 - February 1970: Dreams/ Dispelling illusions/ Discussion with McGuinness on Dummett/ Philosophical Investigations-action/ Zettel-thought/ Public-private
21.3Pad 4.37, December 1969 (cont. from November 22, 1969): Kierkegaard: The challenge of faith/ How to think of Christianity/ Fullness of time
21.4Pad 4.38, December 1969 - January 1970: Kierkegaard: The ethical/ Inwardness/ Hustwit's thesis/ Kierkegaard again/ Wittgenstein's lecture on religious belief/ Kierkegaard and misunderstanding/ Mackey and Kierkegaard
21.5Pad 4.39, January 1970 - February 1970: Notes preparing for a paper on Wittgenstein/ What Wittgenstein is doing?/ Seminar discussions on Wittgenstein
21.6Pad 4.40, January 1970 - May 1970: Kierkegaard: Illusions/ Distinctions/ Illusions of understanding/ Mackey and Thompson's understanding of Kierkegaard/ Predestination
21.7Pad 4.41, February 1970 - March 1970: Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations offers help/ Themes in Philosophical Investigations
21.8Pad 4.42, March 1970-April 1970: Wittgenstein: Private language/ Pain
21.9Pad 4.43, March 1970 - May 1970: Kierkegaard on faith/ Wittgenstein on pain behavior
22.1Pad 4.44, April 1970 - July 1970: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Binkley/ Metaphysical sentences/ Non-sensical and sensical statements/ Private sensations
22.2Pad 4.45, April 1970 - May 1970: Grammar of sense/ Private sensations
22.3Pad 4.46, March 1970 - June 1970: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein: remarks about and correspondence with Josiah Thompson and Louis Mackey/ Letters to Zaner and Mackey defending Dewey Jensen's dissertation
22.4Pad 4.47, May 1970 - June 1970: Kierkegaard: Remarks about J. Thompson/ Wittgenstein/ Hegel
22.5Pad 4.48, May 1970 - September 1970: Metaphysics/ Kierkegaard/ Wittgenstein/ Blue Book
22.6Pad 4.49, June 1970 - July 1970: Dispelling illusions: Kierkegaard/ Don Quixote/ Metaphysical sentences
22.7Pad 4.50, June 1970 - July 1970: Ethics/ What is sensical?-nonsensical?/ Pincoffs’s book on Quandries
22.8Pad 4.51, July 1970: Kierkegaard: The monstrous illusion/ Using Wittgenstein to understand Kierkegaard
22.9Pad 4.52, July 1970 - August 1970: Kierkegaard: Dispelling illusions/ Don Quixote/ Freud/ Wittgenstein/ What it means to be a Christian
22.10Pad 4.53, August 1970 - September 1970 (Grand Rapids): Kierkegaard: Aesthetics/ Dispelling with the monstrous illusion/ Using Wittgenstein to understand Kierkegaard
23.1Pad 4.54, September 1970 - December 1970: Wittgenstein: Aesthetics (Investigations)/ What is needed?/ The meaning of life/ Brown Book (166)-Platon Karataev/ Art/ Auden's As for man.../ Anscombe, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard on aesthetics and happiness
23.2Pad 4.55, September 1970 - December 1970: Wittgenstein's Blue Book: Words and meaning/ Wittgenstein's Brown Book: Recognizing and Familiarity/ Wittgenstein on Meaning, What do you see?/ What do you think?/ Non-sense, illusion (some Kierkegaard)/ The Top by Franz Kafka
23.3Pad 4.56, September 1970 - November 1970: Kierkegaard: Illusions and understanding/ The Ethical, Christianity/ The story of Abraham
23.4Pad 4.57, October 1970 - January 1971: Wittgenstein: Meaning of a word, speaking and writing, illusion and understanding/ Kierkegaard on Christianity and understanding language
23.5Pad 4.58, November 1970 - January 1971: Paper read at University of Kentucky, December 1970 on Miracles/ Rational belief/ Kierkegaard: Christianity and belief/ Fear and Trembling/ Wittgenstein's Discussion on the language of religion/ Freudian theory on representation
23.6Pad 4.59, November 1970 - December 1970: Malone on behavior/ Wittgenstein-Brown Book: The use of This/ Language and Understanding/ Speaking and Writing/ Philosophical Investigations (p. 443): to imagine/ The language-game/ Grammatical illusions/ Emotion/ Perception/ Wilfrid Sellars on language and thinking
23.7Pad 4.60, December 1970 - January 1971: Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations): Philosophical nonsense (continued from September 1970)/ Analogy with Freud on Phenomenon/ Language conscious/ Illusion and understanding/ Voltaire on language/ Wittgenstein and Descartes/ Wittgenstein on imagination and language
23.8Pad 4.61, December 1970 - February 1971: Wittgenstein's conversations: Aesthetics/ Poetry and language statements
23.9Pad 4.62, December 1970 - February 1971: Poetry: C.S. Lewis on poetry/ Aesthetics (language and meaning)/ Zettel (155) meaning and causal connection/ The language of poetry (Wittgenstein)/ What is Beauty?/ Auden/ Poems are a lot like statements
24.1Pad 5.1, January 1971 - April 1971: Bill Gordon's interest in miracles/ Kierkegaard/ Miracle/ Education in Christianity/ Various religious themes/ Miracle/ Judgment/ Creation/ Wittgenstein's lectures on religious belief
24.2Pad 5.2, January 1971 - February 1971: Aesthetics/ Auden/ Poems make statements/ Understanding a poem
24.3Pad 5.3, February 1971 - June 1971: Seeing Stars/ Philosophical Investigations 43/ Kierkegaard and language/ Kierkegaard a poet?
24.4Pad 5.4, March 1971 (pad fragment): Seeing stars/ Poem's meaning
24.5Pad 5.4a, March 1971 - April 1971: Education in philosophy/ Other minds/ Pain (a note on Lee Gordon's oral defense)/ Poems and statements/ Meaning and use/ Beginning of paper on what are the uses of philosophy
24.6Pad 5.5, April 1971 - June 1971: Malone's dissertation/ Letter to Tormey on poetry (poems as statements)/ Purpose-cause-action/ Imagining
24.7Pad 5.6, April 1971 - June 1971 (continued from 5.4a): Wittgenstein: nominalism/ Concepts rigidly limited/ Discussions with Audi (on a paper on intentions)/ I am my brain/ Pain
24.8Pad 5.7, April 1971 - May 1971: Poems and statements/ Philosophical Investigations passages/ Kierkegaard and language/ Paul Holmer's paper The Religious Consciousness/ Auden on poetry/ Either-Or/ Moses/ Poetry
24.9Pad 5.8, June 1971 - July 1971: Wittgenstein: Pain/ Human beings/ B.F. Skinner/ Pain/ I dreamed/ Form of Life/ Frazer's Golden Bough
24.10Pad 5.9, June 1971 - July 1971 (continued from February 1971): Kierkegaard: Socrates/ Subjective thinker/ Kierkegaard in relation to Wittgenstein/ Irony/ Understanding oneself
24.11Pad 5.10, July 1971: Kierkegaard/ Plantinga’s article in the Banner regarding a lecture on the resurrection/ Christianity and science/ Christian world view/ Subjective thinker- Kierkegaard
25.1Pad 5.11, July 1971 - August 1971: Pain/ Defenses and rewards/ The brain/ Hume: Necessary connection/ Wittgenstein class: Other minds, words and meaning, being and non-being, red exists, something real, imagine, fit/ Brown Book (33-41): What do we call a rule?, sensation, imagine, truth
25.2Pad 5.12, August 1971 - September 1971: Kierkegaard: Christianity (from a program on Catholicism)/ Existence/ Existential reality/ Russell: Faith/ Elizabeth Anscombe: Faith and tradition/ Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on imagination and illusion/ Tractatus/ Wittgenstein: Language, proper names (also Russell)/ Zettel: Categories/ Color (331-332)/ Language
25.3Pad 5.13, August 1971 - September 1971: Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations: ascribing sensation/ Attitude/ Imagine/ Reactions/ Reading/ Guided by, rules/ Behaviorism/ (Hartshome and Boggs on Behavior)/ Thinking and talking/ Non-sense/ Words and meaning/ Blue Book: Discussion of language and Christianity (Moses example)
25.4Pad 5.14, August 1971 - October 1971: Poems and statements/ Poems and language/ Wittgenstein: Now I can go on (Philosophical Investigations)/ Meaning/ Word interpretation/ The working of language/ Meaning and understanding
25.5Pad 5.15, September 1971 - May 1972: Wittgenstein: The question-understanding ourselves/ The meaning of a word/ The proper name/ Imagine/ Blue Book-the mind and expectations/ Zettel-expectation and the mind/ Intentions/ Causes/ Russell on expectation
25.6Pad 5.16, September 1971 - January 1972: Kierkegaard: On humor/ Christianity/ Socrates on irony/ Hare's blik/ Moore and knowing/ Bartlett/ Bob Herbert's paper: We Have A Body of Religious Ideas/ Nietzsche: Christianity
25.7Pad 5.17, October 1971 - November 1971: Wittgenstein: The activity of operative signs (the use of language)/ Meaning and Intention/ What is piety?/ Socrates Euthyphro on piety/ What is a game in the Tractatus?/ On language and meaning/ Long note on Smythies reacting to Bouwsma's notes on Wittgenstein Conversations
25.8Pad 5.18, November 1971 - July 1973: Wittgenstein: The meaning of a word/ (Philosophical Investigations) the language-game/ Pain/ Prior: World view/ Christianity/ Boggs and Nietzsche-Christianity/ To see ourselves as others see us (Language and mind)/ Ghosts and God/ Morals/ Drury's paper on Freud/ Back to Boggs
25.9Pad 5.19, November 1971 - January 1972: Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations): The language of the language-game/ Pain/ Meaning/ Equality/ Vlastos on Equality/ Zettel (p. 530)/ Wittgenstein: on behavior/ Certainty/ Kripke systematic writer/ Proper names/ Schatz, the I and the language surrounding it/ Wittgenstein on meaning
25.10Pad 5.20, November 1971: The meaning of life/ Mental disorders/ Factual difference and Christianity/ (Philosophical Investigations) Wittgenstein words and definitions/ Kierkegaard on Christianity/ Auden (meaning and Christianity inter-mixed) repeats himself on TV interview
26.1Pad 5.21, December 1971 - January 1972: Understanding Ryle/ Why read philosophy?/ Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations/ Ryle at Rice (The whole pad is on Ryle's autobiographical remark about reading the history of philosophy)
26.2Pad 5.22, November 1971 - May 1972: Taylor: Cause and intention/ Wittgenstein: How does one imagine?/ What is expecting?/ Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard: Indirect and direct communication
26.3Pad 5.23, January 1972 - July 1973: Bill Gordon's thesis/ Kierkegaard's subjectivity/ Christianity and God/ Kierkegaard: Irony and humor
26.4Pad 5.24, January 1972: Primitive man and religion/ Kierkegaard: Christianity and the primitive case(s)/ Reality/ Confessions (St. Augustine)/ Williams: Egoism and William James/ Perceptions of the human mind (Hume, Ryle, Descartes)/ Language, speaking and writing, Locke: The principles of morality, religion, and understanding/ Back to Williams's egoism
26.5Pad 5.25, February 1972: Wittgenstein, Austin, and Ryle: What is Philosophy?/ Grammar and linguistics/ The Misleading Analogy/ What is thinking?
26.6Pad 5.26, January 1972 - April 1972: Kierkegaard: Solomon/ Truth is subjective/ Wittgenstein's descriptive and performatory/ Fragments: The ethical and religious/ The illusion/ Indirect and direct communication
26.7Pad 5.27, February 1972 - May 1972: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Private sensations/ Imagination/ Learning and human nature/ Ryle (at Rice): Theory/ Misleading analogy/ Categories/ Kierkegaard: Indirect and direct communication, irony
26.8Pad 5.28, March 1972: Ryle: The category mistake/ Ryle/ Descartes: Skill/ Theory/ Teaching
26.9Pad 5.29, March 1972: What was Ryle doing?/ Category mistake/ Theory/ Malone: Intention-what was Wittgenstein doing?/ Teaching a skill
26.10Pad 5.29a, May 1972 - June 1972: Kierkegaard: Subjective thinking/ Fear and Trembling/ Understanding Kierkegaard's situation/ Indirect and direct communication/ Religious language and scripture in general
26.11Pad 5.30, May 1972 - July 1972: Wittgenstein and Curran/ Pain behavior/ Private sensations/ Intentions
27.1Pad 5.31, June 1972: Kierkegaard: Christianity/ Language/ Truth, the human being/ Stoicism/ Tom MacMahon's piece on style/ Back to Christianity/ The way and happiness/ Justification/ Back to truth and subjectivity
27.2Pad 5.31a, January 1972 - March 1972: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: A word is a name/ Meaning/ Zeno and Achilles example/ Zettel: Soulless people/ Human beings and autonomy/ Grammatical illusions/ (Philosophical Investigations) The Uniformity of nature/ Certainty/ Pryor and Miss Ineti on anger and knowing/ The problem of language/ Language as a natural convenience/ Animals and language
27.3Pad 5.32, June 1972 - September 1972: Kierkegaard: Christianity/ Dispelling an illusion (Christianity)/ Indirect communication/ Nietzsche and Kierkegaard: to be a Christian/ Truth and belief
27.4Pad 5.33, July 1972 - August 1972: Ryle: Understanding the proper name/ The concept of mind/ Comparison of Wittgenstein and Ryle (paper) on ordinary language/ Kierkegaard: Christianity and understanding/ Poetry and Christianity/ Izaak Walton's Life of John Danna/ William Blake's Every Eye Sees Differently/ Kierkegaard -subjective thinker, the sophist/ Indirect communication and direct communication/ Back to Kierkegaard on Christianity
27.5Pad 5.34, August 1972 - September 1972: Frank Knight on Government and Peace/ Kierkegaard: Understanding Christianity/ Plato-Understood Communication/ Kierkegaard's Fragments (ethical, irony, truth, subjectivity, and Christianity)/ Back to Frank Knight/ Kierkegaard/ Hick on Philosophical Theology and Natural Theology/ The Subjective Thinker (Kierkegaard)/ Returns to Hick
27.6Pad 5.35, September 1972 - December 1972: Kierkegaard: Men of science, The subjective problem and Hicks/ Nietzsche: Comparing to Old Testament parable/ Christianity/ The Gospels/ New man and old man/ Spinoza and Freedom of the Will
27.7Pad 5.36, September 1972 - December 1972: Prior: Other minds/ Dispositions and expression/ Russell's remark about the history of the earth (meaning)/ Matthews: Discovering, questioning, and showing answers/ On dreaming/ Logical possibility/ Kierkegaard's ideal of the leap (faith)
27.8Pad 5.37, September 1972 - March 1973: Nietzsche: Frenzy, Christianity, existentialism, belief/ Wittgenstein compared to Nietzsche on belief/ Bill Gordon's thesis Does Hick Avoid the ad hoc Solution?/ Kierkegaard on Christianity/ Williams and Kant on Utilitarianism/ Discussion, humor, states of mind (206-207)/ One can talk to oneself
27.9Pad 5.38, October 1972 - January 1973: Nietzsche: Christianity (Paul), Freedom of the will and Spinoza (a little Wittgenstein mixed through)/ Predestination/ Bill Gordon: Faith as an attitude/ Kierkegaard on Faith/ Wittgenstein on language/ Kierkegaard on understanding Christianity
27.10Pad 5.39, October 1972-November 1972: Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations): Language and the bewitchment of our intelligence, memory/ Religious belief and experience/ Kierkegaard on Christianity (in reference to religious belief and experience)/ Calvin/ Nietzsche on Christianity
28.1Pad 5.40, October 1972 - November 1972: Nietzsche/ Kierkegaard
28.2Pad 5.40a, September 1962 - November 1962: Camus’s The Fall, with letter from Herbert Fingarette explaining notes
28.3Pad 5.41, November 1972 - February 1973: Nietzsche/ Miscellaneous/ Socrates/ Wittgenstein-Augustine
28.4Pad 5.42, December 1972 - January 1973: Good life/ Nietzsche-Christianity/ Kierkegaard
28.5Pad 5.43, February 1973 - March 1973: For a large class of cases-meaning is use/ Hume-perceptions/ Religious language
28.6Pad 5.44, February 1973 - March 1973: Meaning/ Hume perceptions/ Williams on character
28.7Pad 5.45, March 1973 - May 1973: Malcolm argues/ Other minds/ Kierkegaard's Repetition/ Recognition of genuineness/ Miscellaneous
28.8Pad 5.46, March 1973 - June 1973: Nietzsche-Genealogy of Morals (entire pad)
28.9Pad 5.47, April 1973 - June 1973: Wittgenstein-philosophy/ Moore's proof of an external world/ Discussion/ Schopenhauer/ Calvin College philosophers/ Miscellaneous
28.10Pad 5.48, July 1973 - July 1973: Religious themes/ Miscellaneous/ Certainty/ Learning to talk/ Physical objects/ Freud/ Bob Dylan/ Tractatus/ Toulmin’s book (ethics)/ Freud/ Religious belief
29.1Pad 5.49a, July 1973 - August 1973: Themes in Christianity/ Wittgenstein-use/ Nietzsche-bridge/ Herbert on the resurrection
29.2Pad 5.49b, August 1973: Zarathustra (entire pad)
29.3Pad 5.50, September 1973 - December 1973: Nietzsche (entire pad)
29.4Pad 5.51, September 1973 - December 1973: Paper on Davidson/ Kierkegaard-subjectivity/ Quine-word and object
29.5Pad 5.52, September 1973-October 1973: Nietzsche-morals (entire pad)
29.6Pad 5.53, October 1973 - November 1973: Nietzsche
29.7Pad 5.54, November 1973: Nietzsche
29.8Pad 5.55, December 1973 - January 1974: Nietzsche/ Behaviorism/ Nietzsche/ Wittgenstein-ethics (entire pad related to Nietzsche)
29.9Pad 6.1, January 1974 - February 1974: Wittgenstein-learning to speak/ Descartes/ Wittgenstein-St. Augustine
29.10Pad 6.2, January 1978 - February 1978: If a lion could talk/ Machine thinking/ Translations/ Wittgenstein
30.1Pad 6.3, January 1974 - February 1974: Reading in Philosophical Investigations/ On Certainty
30.2Pad 6.4, February 1974: On Certainty (some on Moore here)
30.3Pad 6.5, February 1974 - April 1974: On Certainty/ Kierkegaard's pseudonyms/ On certainty/ Understanding the Greeks/ Job/ Philosophical Investigations
30.4Pad 6.6, February 1974 - April 1974: Reading in Philosophical Investigations/ Miscellaneous/ On Certainty
30.5Pad 6.7, April 1974 - May 1974: Kierkegaard: A kind of poet/ The devil (Hustwit's interest in Ivan's devil)/ Duck-rabbit/ Allaire’s paper on truth
30.6Pad 6.8, March 1974 - April 1974: Kierkegaard/ Iris Murdoch's book on good/ Philosophy/ Hume-perception
30.7Pad 6.9, May 1974: Stopping philosophy/ Novels vs. philosophy/ Findlay-transcendental/ Craft-the ethical (Kierkegaard)/ Reading novels
30.8Pad 6.10, May 1974 - June 1974: Reading philosophy versus novels/ Miscellaneous/ Wittgenstein and Stevens/ Miscellaneous/ Meaning of a word
30.9Pad 6.11, June 1974 - July 1974: Urge for metaphysics/ Moore-knowledge/ Craft-the ethical/ T. in jail-the wreck of a life and Pierre (Tolstoy)
30.10Pad 6.12, July 1974 - August 1974: Kierkegaard on ethical versus religious/ Several notes on Nietzsche at end
31.1Pad 6.13, July 1974 - August 1974: Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals/ God is dead/ Ascetic ideal/ Style/ Bringing down Christianity/ Good and evil/ Boggs on Nietzsche/ The educated man
31.2Pad 6.14, August 1974 - September 1974: Nietzsche: Letter to his sisters/ Boggs's paper
31.3Pad 6.15, September 1974 - October 1974: Realism and nominalism/ Kierkegaard subjectivity/ Socrates/ Nietzsche/ Charmides
31.4Pad 6.16, October 1974 - November 1974: Nietzsche: Socrates/ Eternal Recurrence/ Meaning of life/ Genealogy of Morals/ Overcoming
31.5Pad 6.17, October 1974 - November 1974: Dostoyevsky/ Pascal’s wager/ Kafka/ Invitation of heroes (Socrates, etc.) Nietzsche
31.6Pad 6.18, November 1974: Nietzsche: Overcoming/ True and apparent world/ Self-deception (entire pad on themes in Nietzsche)
31.7Pad 6.19, November 1974 - December 1974: Nietzsche: Overcoming/ The will to power/ Eternal Recurrence/ Philosophical Investigations 483f grammatical remarks/ Eternal Recurrence/ Socratic irony
31.8Pad 6.20, December 1974 - January 1975: Irony: Socratic irony (related to Nietzsche)/ Examples of irony
31.9Pad 6.21, January 1975 - February 1975: Nietzsche: Will to power/ Eternal Recurrence/ Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations: the meaning of a word/ Dog can't simulate pain/ St. Augustine/ Thinking
31.10Pad 6.22, January 1975 - March 1975: On Certainty/ Irony/ Wittgenstein's picture
32.1Pad 6.23, February 1975 - March 1975: Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations 23/ Alienation/ Nietzsche/ Meaning of life/ Imaginary dialogue between Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton on the meaning of life/ Reason in ethics
32.2Pad 6.24, March 1975 - April 1975: Ethics/ Wittgenstein: picture/ Observing your own grief/ Language-games
32.3Pad 6.25, March 1975: Wittgenstein: picture/ Names/ Language-games/ Kant's Categorical Imperative and Hume's self.(examples of language-games)
32.4Pad 6.26, March 1975 - April 1975: Wittgenstein: Language-games/ Ethics/ Moses/ Einstein's sentence on metaphysics/ Science
32.5Pad 6.27, April 1975 - May 1975: Persuasion/ Laws/ Kierkegaard's Repetition/ Heidegger/ Audi on ethical relativism/ Close´s thesis (theology)
32.6Pad 6.28, May 1975 - June 1975: Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations passages/ Heidegger/ Sermons/ Meaning of a word/ Use
32.7Pad 6.29, June 1975 - August 1975: Wittgenstein: Meaning/ Object/ Kierkegaard: Inwardness/ Grammar/ Intention/ Nietzsche/ Irony/ Is belief in God rational?/ Plantinga discussion/ Barth/ Ericson and Bill Bouwsma on childhood/ Scripture
32.8Pad 6.30, August 1975: Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations: Words/ Grammar/ Gorgias-rhetoric/ Freud/ Kierkegaard's objectivity-subjectivity/ Wittgenstein: depth
32.9Pad 6.31, August 1975 - September 1975: Comments on Bill Bouwsma paper: Childhood-parent adulthood/ Ericson/ Tillich/ Nietzsche-Joyful Wisdom
32.10Pad 6.32, September 1975: Nietzsche (entire pad) and a few more notes on Bill Bouwsma’s paper
33.1Pad 6.33, September 1975 - October 1975: Questions of Eisenstein, a student/ Remarks about Bill Gordon, a student/ Remarks about Nietzsche and Christianity in general
33.2Pad 6.34, October 1975: Philosophy does violence to language/ Wittgenstein: Understanding the skill he is teaching/ Nietzsche and the madman: losing faith/ Values/ Christianity, God, Kierkegaard/ Nietzsche: Man is indeterminate/ Morality
33.3Pad 6.35, October 1975 - November 1975: Remarks about eating meat and doubt/ Wittgenstein: What he shows us, aesthetics/ Bill Gordon: Christianity and what it means/ What sort of future is there for you/ Nietzsche/ Dostoyevsky-Raskolnikov
33.4Pad 6.36, November 1975: Nietzsche, Joyful Wisdom, conscious, unconscious, and self-conscious/ Understanding the role of stories and novels/ Nietzsche and Spinoza: On emotion, politics, ethics/ General ramblings
33.5Pad 6.37, November 1975 - December 1975: Bill Gordon's interest in reason and faith: Penn, Kierkegaard, and St. Augustine/ Frazer's Golden Bough/ Wittgenstein: The meaning of Discovering nonsense (Philosophical Investigations)/ Nietzsche and Ivan
33.6Pad 6.38, December 1975 - January 1976: Reason and faith/ Judging/ Language: inherent or learned?/ Remarks about animal behavior/ Dog's pretending
33.7Pad 6.39, January 1976 - February 1976: Wittgenstein's pretending/ Parts of speech/ Irony
33.8Pad 6.40, February 1976: Remarks on the natural history of man/ Is belief in God rational? (Alvin Plantinga)/ Necessary connection/ Aesthetics/ The soul
33.9Pad 6.41, February 1976 - March 1976: Statten: Myth/ Wittgenstein: His use of the word pictures, grammar/ Sense-data and knowledge
33.10Pad 6.42, March 1976: Wittgenstein: His use of the word grammar/ Remarks on Ziff's paper-aesthetic impressions and puzzles
33.11Pad 6.43, March 1976 - April 1976: Cioffi's paper on Fire festivals -Frazier/ Wittgenstein: Frazier and aesthetics/ Private language
34.1Pad 6.44, April 1976 - May 1976: Wittgensteinian/ God's definition and purpose/ Sense data (Wittgenstein)/ Pictures (Wittgenstein)/ Language-game (Wittgenstein)/ Descartes on foundations/ (Philosophical Investigations) word unity and understanding/ Not (Wittgenstein)/ Why do I read Wittgenstein/ Solipsism: What exists?/ Patterns of behavior/ Anscombe: Wittgenstein’s will and skepticism/ Back to the language-game
34.2Pad 6.45, May 1976: Explanations/ Dreams (Wittgenstein)/ Aesthetic language and empirical language/ Dream images/ Cioffi on Freud/ Wittgenstein on consciousness and unconsciousness/ Style of thinking-nothing but/ Behaviorism (Wittgenstein)/ Nietzsche and Wittgenstein (style of thinking)/ Wittgenstein-language/ Kripke/ Smythies on Wittgenstein and the language-game/ Hugly as a philosopher
34.3Pad 6.46, May 1976 - June 1976: Words as tools/ Habits/ Kierkegaard and the Fragments on illusion and paradox/ (From Craft paper) Kierkegaard on faith, sin, and offense/ Staten on education and community/ Back to Kierkegaard on Christianity/ Honesty/ Thinking and language and religion (Nietzsche and Kierkegaard)/ William James
34.4Pad 6.47, June 1976 - June 1976: Time sequence/ Memory/ Essays on Nietzsche and Kierkegaard/ Heidegger Why the possibilities of phenomena/ Wittgenstein on St. Augustine's worry of time/ What is thinking?/ Language/ Kierkegaard on Christianity and literature
34.5Pad 6.48, June 1976 - July 1976: Berkeley: time and phenomena/ Wallich on time/ Kierkegaard on the Scriptures and Christianity (from the Fragments)/ Wittgenstein-language and understanding/ Back to the Fragments/ A Christmas Carol?/ Bill Bouwsma's paper on Erikson/ Kierkegaard on the truth
34.6Pad 6.49, July 1976: Kierkegaard: The Postscript and The Fragments (topics: Christianity, language, purpose)
34.7Pad 6.50, July 1976 - August 1976: Kierkegaard: Reading scripture, the subjective thinker/ Philip Larkin poem High Windows (death)/ Back to Kierkegaard on Christianity/ Wittgenstein/ On becoming subjective/ Religious subjectivity
34.8Pad 6.51, August 1976 - September 1976: Kierkegaard: Rational belief, Sanctification, Subjectivity, Christianity, Eternal Happiness/ Essentially comprehensible/ Wallich on principle/ Religion A and Religion B/ Understanding
34.9Pad 6.52, September 1976 - October 1976: Kierkegaard: Scriptures, Hegel, Language, Faith, Hamlet, The Garden, God and the Law, Redeemer, Know thyself, and Love/ State of mind
34.10Pad 6.53, October 1976: Mental states/ State of mind versus Disposition/ Kierkegaard: Unknown God, Christianity, the subjective thinker, Truth/ Cioffi-subjective understanding/ Believing (Wittgenstein)
35.1Pad 6.54, October 1976 - November 1976: Cioffi: Paper on impression (Beltane Fire Festivals)/ Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations) What do words signify? the meaning of the word, understanding/ Philosophical unintelligibility-Hume/ Kierkegaard: Christianity/ Back to Wittgenstein on words and understanding/ Kierkegaard on Christ/ Discussion at Wooster Conference/ Harry Nielsen's paper on Immortality/ Kierkegaard's lace-maker
35.2Pad 6.55, November 1976 - December 1976: Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations): Words uttered-listen, Cioffi, and the Fire Festivals/ Origin/ Knowledge (A shadow on the mind)/ The grammar of belief, metaphysics/ The Declaration of Independence/ Jefferson's right to an apple/ God and king/ (Philosophical Investigations) Language, like a city it grows
35.3Pad 6.56, December 1976 - January 1977: Harry Nielsen's paper on Immortality/ Kierkegaard: Subjectivity/ Wittgenstein: understanding/ Feeling and mental states/ Wittgenstein: Zettel-language and understanding, solipsism, realism/ Marxist/ Thoreau
35.4Pad 6.57, January 1977 - February 1977: Wittgenstein and Frazer comparison (impressions)/ Capitalism/ Marx and Communism/ Nietzsche: Ethics/ Back to Marx/ Zettel: Knowing, Meaning/ Hegel: religion/ Recognition
35.5Pad 6.58, February 1977: Impulses and the nervous system (Wittgenstein)/ Grief/ Wittgenstein: Zettel-meaning and purpose, Mental process/ Kierkegaard: external life/ Branson: What is thinking?
35.6Pad 6.59, March 1977 - April 1977: Harry's paper on eternal life/ Wittgenstein: Religious language/ Hick's Book-belief and God/ Wittgenstein on grammatical confusions, the limits of language/ Fear/ Tolstoy/ Pictures?/ Poetry/ Philosophical nonsense/ What is knowledge?/ Meaning
35.7Pad 6.60, March 1977: Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations): What is the aim of philosophy?/ Metaphor/ Expressions/ Smythies Unintelligibility/ The web of life/ Wittgenstein on peace/ Solomon's book: Life is Absurd/ Create your self/ Clash of imperatives/ The perfect metaphor/ The unsayable/ What is Being/ Back to the metaphor/ The idea of language
35.8Pad 6.61, April 1977 - May 1977: Poems (Keith Botsford and Philip Larkin poems)/ Wittgenstein: Words and sentences/ Kant and necessary imperatives/ The perfect metaphor/ Blue Book: words and meaning of expressions/ Locke: Simple ideas/ Berkeley: taking a survey of knowledge/ Wittgenstein: Ideas in the mind (Berkeley, Locke)/ Heidegger’s discoveries
35.9Pad 6.62, May 1977 - June 1977: Berkeley: sensation/ Wittgenstein: On Certainty - physical objects/ Moore: I know/ Craft on Repetition (Kierkegaard)/ Kierkegaard: Recollection, Scripture/ Wittgenstein: Language-game/ Cardinal Newman/ Back to Kierkegaard on Christianity/ Humanities
35.10Pad 6.63, June 1977: The Humanities/ Subjective-objective thinking in Kierkegaard/ Spinoza: Ethics/ Recollection/ Heidegger’s Analogy of philosophy to poetry/ Order/ Eisenstadt on Metaphysics/ Solomon's Book/ The theory of humor/ Emotion and expression/ Wittgenstein: The House of Cards/ Understanding behavior
36.1Pad 6.64, June 1977 - August 1977: Motive and intention/ Anna Karenina/ Self-deception: illusion, fantasy/ Freud/ Conscious motives and unconscious motives/ Smythies on Notes From Underground - giving oneself a character
36.2Pad 6.65, August 1977: Wittgenstein: Intention/ Impressions (pictures and images) and sense-data/ Brain-states/ Martinich: Think of a man
36.3Pad 6.66, August 1977 - September 1977: Sense-data/ Belief in God: Appearances and sense-data, faith/ Harry Nielsen's paper on confessing belief in God/ What is man?/ The standard meter/ Frege
36.4Pad 6.67, September 1977 - October 1977: Frege: the morning star/ Kripke/ Logic and grammar: contingency, necessity/ Christianity and God
36.5Pad 6.68, October 1977 - November 1977: Remarks about Wittgenstein's notebooks: Meaning of life/ God/ Reality and truth/ Martinich/ Rules
36.6Pad 6.69, November 1977 - December 1977: Vlastos on Plato-true and good in Protagoras/ M's criteria of truth/ Wittgenstein on empirical and logical/ Colors/ Anscombe and Wittgenstein on What is thinking?/ Heidegger: functions/ Hegel on thought
36.7Pad 6.70, December 1977 - January 1978: Nothingness/ Heidegger on nothing (p. 362) and on boredom (p. 364)/ E. on the newness of life/ Wittgenstein: ethics, absolute values/ Berkeley/ Christianity and Wonderful/ Tolstoy and deception/ Wittgenstein: if a lion were to talk
36.8Pad 6.71, February 1978: Reflections on God/ Notes for paper: On God in General/ Miss Anscombe and Socrates/ The experience of Being
Series II. Seminar Notes, Correspondence, and Other Works,1907-1988
1925-1978
37.17.1 Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscript, 1964-1965
37.27.2 Nietzsche, 1968-1974, undated
37.37.3 Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 1961
37.47.4 Wittgenstein, Blue Book, 1967
37.57.5 Wittgenstein, Blue Book, 1971
37.67.6 Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, undated
38.17.7 Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1958
38.27.8 Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1965-1966
38.37.9 Moore, 1967
38.47.10 Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1968
38.57.11 Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1969
38.67.12 Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1971
38.77.13 Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1972
38.87.14 Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1973
38.97.15 Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1975
38.107.16 The idea of spirit, 1961
38.117.18 Philosophy in Literature, 1963
38.127.19 What is reading?, 1974
38.137.20 Who studies language?, undated
38.147.21 Notes on metaphysics, undated
38.157.22 Response to student´s note about printing needs, undated
38.167.23 What is the good life?, undated
38.177.24 Note on the meaning of a word, Fall 1970
39.17.25 Note on problem of universals, September 1974
39.27.26 Class note on studying philosophy, undated
39.37.27 Seattle notes: Wittgenstein, 1956
39.47.28 San Jose notes: thinking, Summer 1959
39.57.29 Santa Barbara notes: philosophy of religion, Summer 1962
39.68.1 Wittgenstein Conversations, 1949
39.78.2 John Locke Lectures, 1951
39.88.3 Hintz Memorial Lecture: on philosophy of religion, with letter to Bouwsma from Robert W. Bretall, 1969
39.98.4 Essay Concerning Religious Language, 1963
39.108.5 Does the Bible give us a picture of our lives, 1966
39.118.6 Anselm's Argument, undated
39.128.7 Adventure in Verifications, with letter to Bouwsma from Paul Helm, 1963
39.138.8 Notes on The Monstrous Illusions and other papers on Point of View, 1970, undated
39.148.9 Untitled essay on faith and evidence, 1968
39.158.10 Review of book on Spinoza´s ontology, undated
39.168.11 Wittgenstein's doubts about Cartesian doubt, 1960
39.178.12 Introduction to proposed translation of Nietzsche's letters, with letter from Bouwsma to John R. Silber, circa 1969
39.188.13 Comments on Miss Anscombe's paper on faith, with letter to Bouwsma from Elizabeth Anscombe, 1968
40.18.14 Rough draft of a paper on Philosophical Investigations, 1968
40.28.15 Double talk, Jackie Vernon and X (lecture), undated
40.38.16 A Difference Between Ryle and Wittgenstein
40.48.17 Allaire on Truth, undated
40.58.18 Lengthier Zettel, undated
40.68.19 Is belief in God rational?, 1975
40.78.20 Notes on Berkeley's Idealism, 1957
40.88.21 Achilles and the Tortoise, undated
40.98.22 Russell's argument on universals, article by Bouwsma, off-print from The Philosophical Review, March 1943
40.108.23 On this is white, article by Bouwsma, off-print from The Philosophical Review, January 1939
40.118.24 Feigl on justification, undated
40.128.25 Reply to Hartshorne, 1964
40.138.26 What is meaning?, undated
40.148.27 Two Failures, undated
40.158.28 (Peter) Geach’s notes, undated
40.168.29 The Language of Poetry, with letter to Bouwsma from Alan Tormey, undated
40.178.30 Two short papers on poetry, undated
40.188.31 On Many Occasions I Have in Sleep Been Deceived, undated
40.198.32 I Think I Am, undated
40.208.33 Remarks on the Cogito, undated
41.18.34 Notes on the Cogito, undated
41.28.35 The meaning of a word is the object for which the word stands, 1968
41.39.1 Index to Philosophical Investigations, typescript, author unknown, undated
41.49.2 96 pages of nonsense (regarding characters in a film), typescript, author unknown, 1953
41.59.3 Does Oxford Moral Philosophy Corrupt the Youth?, by Elizabeth Anscombe, typescript, undated
41.69.4 Unfinished biographical sketch of Wittgenstein by Friedrich Hayek, typescript, 1953
41.79.5 Times Literary Supplement piece on Wittgenstein, typescript, 1959
41.89.6 BBC talk on Wittgenstein, copy of typescript, undated
41.99.7 Correspondence, notes, printed material, and typescripts by other authors, 1963-1968, undated
41.109.8 Reviews of Philosophical Essays, with correspondence, 1965-1966
41.119.9 Wittgenstein's notes on knowledge and certainty, copy of typescript, 1951
41.12-139.10-11 Wittgenstein's lectures on philosophical psychology, copies of typescript, undated
41.149.12 Correspondence and notes, 1961, undated 41.159.13 Bricks and Ducks, typescript, author unknown, 1961
41.16, 42.1-2Ditto mats of notes, undated
42.3Empty envelopes and folders
43.1Class handouts, 1954-1965 43.2Notes on Berkeley and Hume, 1954-1957
43.3Notes on Descartes, 1956-1962
43.4Notes on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, 1965
43.5Notes on Hustwit’s thesis on Kierkegaard, 1969
44.1Descartes/ Motives/ Language/ Spinoza/ Meaning of a word, 1951 44.2Brothers Karamazov/ Johnson and the stone/ Locke/ Berkeley/ Aristotle/ Hume, language, and philosophy, undated 44.3Hedonism, 1950 44.4On describing uses of words/ Austin, undated 44.5Mimeographed class handouts, 1956-1962
44.6Carbon and mimeographed class handouts, 1958-1959
44.7Logical possibilities, 1954-1955
44.8-10Hume, 1955 44.11Descartes Meditations, undated
44.12Moore, 1959 45.1Aesthetics and ethics, 1958
45.2Dreaming, undated 45.3Various topics, 1957-1958
45.4-5Meaning, undated 45.6Descartes: dreams are illusions, 1957 45.7Berkeley/ Descartes, 1957
46.1Moore, 1954 46.2-6Notes in preparation for John Locke Lectures, circa 1950-1951
46.7Typescript of John Locke Lectures, circa 1950-1951 46.8Concept of mind, undated
46.9Topics in philosophy of mind, 1954 47.1Plato, undated
47.2-5Hume, 1954-1955 48.1Hume, 1951
Miscellaneous notes
48.2Dostoyevsky/ Universals/ Thinking/ Republic, 1952
48.3Education/ Music/ Democracy/ Dostoyevsky, 1952
48.4Education/ Montaigne/ Pain, undated
48.5Substance/ Illusion/ Language/ Berkeley, 1953
49.1The Flux, John Locke Lectures (1951), computer printout with introduction by Ronald Hustwit, undated
49.2Class handouts on Hume and Plato, 1954-1955
49.3-11Book withdrawals, 1907-1976, undated
49.12Off-prints of articles by Bouwsma, 1939-1966
49.13Non-Logical Falsity by Yorick Smythies, typescript, undated
50.1Bouwsma’s notes on Smythies’s paper on non-logical falsity, undated
50.2Bouwsma’s notes on the subject of dread, 1963
50.3Correspondence and offprint of article, 1941-1972
50.4-5Correspondence, drawings, invitations, notes, printed material, receipts, and works by others, 1930-1988
50.6Photocopies of correspondence, clippings, and drawings, 1915-1984 50.7The Blue Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, bound typewritten manuscript with Bouwsma’s annotations, undated
50.8The Brown Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, bound typewritten manuscript with Bouwsma’s annotations, undated
Index of Selected Correspondents
- Ambrose, Alice, 1906- --50.5 (to Gretchen Bouwsma Bos)
- Anscombe, G. E. M. (Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret)--39.18
- Arnott, J. S.--50.4
- Audi, Robert, 1941- --50.6 (to Agnes Arthaud)
- Baylor, John R.--50.6
- Bobbitt, Philip--50.5 (to Gretchen Bouwsma Bos)
- Bouwsma, O. K.--50.4, 50.6 (outgoing)
- Bracken, Harry M.--50.4
- Bretall, Robert W. (Robert Walter), 1913-1980--39.8, 41.9
- Browning, Douglas, 1929- --50.5-6
- Carney, James D. (James Donald)--50.4
- Cioffi, Frank--50.3
- Cook, John W. (John Webber), 1930- --50.6
- Craft, J. L. (Jimmy Lee), 1947- --50.5 (to Gretchen Bouwsma Bos and Jon Bos)
- Daugherty, William E.--50.6 (to Agnes Arthaud)
- Dekker, Peter?--50.6 (to Oscar Bouwsma)
- Edman, Irwin, 1896-1954--50.4
- Fingarette, Herbert--28.2
- Goodhart, Cecily--50.4 (to Gretchen Bouwsma)
- Gustavson, R. G.--50.5
- Helm, Paul--39.12
- Herbert, Robert T., 1928- --50.5-6
- Hirsch, Edward J.--50.5
- Holland, R. F. (Roy Fraser), 1932- --41.10
- Howey, Richard Lowell, 1937- --41.4
- Hustwit, Ronald E., 1942- --50.4 (to Gretchen Bouwsma Bos and Jon Bos)
- Jackman, Jim--50.6 (to Gretchen Bouwsma Bos)
- Jager, Ronald--50.5 (to William J. Bouwsma)
- Kimmel, Larry--50.6
- Kuntz, Paul Grimley, 1915- --41.9
- Lazerowitz, Morris, 1909-1987--50.4, 50.6 (to Agnes Arthaud)
- Mabbott, J. D. (John David)--50.6
- Malcolm, Norman, 1911-1990--50.6
- Melville, P. C.--50.6
- Moore, Dorothy--50.6
- Murphy, John P. (John Peter), 1937-1987--50.6 (to Robert Audi)
- Paton, H. J. (Herbert James), 1887-1969--50.4
- Philip, J. R.--50.4
- Pincoffs, Edmund L.--50.6
- Pospishil, Lloyd L.--50.5
- Price, H. H. (Henry Habberley), 1899-1984--50.4
- Prokop, Robert J.--50.5
- Ross, Stanley R. (Stanley Robert), 1921-1985--50.5
- Ryle, Gilbert, 1900-1976--50.6
- Scheer, Richard K.--50.6
- Silber, John, 1926-2012--39.17, 50.6
- Smythies, Yorick, 1917-1980--50.5-6
- Spoelhof, William, 1909- --50.6 (to Agnes Arthaud)
- Sprague, Elmer--50.4-5 (to Gretchen Bouwsma Bos), 50.6 (to Agnes Arthaud)
- Sullivan, John Patrick--50.5
- Tormey, Alan--40.16
- Unnson, J. O.--50.4
- Varner, D. B.--50.5
- Weatherhead, A. Kingsley (Andrew Kingsley), 1923- --50.6
- Werbow, Stanley N. (Stanley Newman), 1922-2005--50.5
- Wetzel, Charles Robert, 1934- --50.4 (to Gretchen Bouwsma Bos)
- Whipp, Leslie T.--50.6 (to Agnes Arthaud)
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951--50.6
- Wright, G. H. von (Georg Henrik), 1916-2003--50.6
- Zumberge, James Herbert--50.5