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Contents of box 6 (mainly papers/drafts)

  • The Aims of Logic. HWU (21 p.). Ca. 1950?. <info>
  • Aristotle on Logical Squares. HWU (8 p.). Ca. 1956.
This "paper" (in a folder) also contains various bits & pieces, e.g. a few letters, apparently not at all connected with 'Aristotle on logical squares'; it also contains some sheets on Hamblin's 'Elementary Formal Logic'; see Keynes/box 6.
--- Per Hasle
  • Background to Overseas News. TU (3 p.). 1949.
In all likelihood manuscript for a NZ broadcast.
--- Per Hasle
  • Bangor Summer School. TU (4 p.). 1961.
A syllabus called 'Some Puzzles about Time', i.e. lecture plan and notes for Bangor Summer School course 1961.
--- Per Hasle
  • Bentham and Coleridge. TU (9 p.) (ca. 1950-55). Theological. <abstract>
  • The Case of Edward Irving. TU (5 p.). Ca. 1942. Theological. <abstract>
  • Children of the Damned. TU (10 p., 2 handwritten pages). Ca. 1942. Theological. <abstract>
  • Civil Liberties Abroad and at Home. TU (3 p.). 1957.
(Undated, but page 2 makes it evident that this must be 1957)
--- Per Hasle
  • Definitions, Rules and Axioms. T (21 p.) ORIG 1955m.
  • Determinism in Philosophy and Theology. TU (4 p.). Ca. 1944?. Theological. Probably Prior's best defence of a predestinarian stance. <abstract>
  • East-West Working Party. Canberra, December   1957. HWU (10 p.). 1957. (See also immediately below, as well as 1958c).
Hereof 4 handwritten pages of notes on 'atomism', obviously connected with the same occasion, but partly independent contentwise.
--- Per Hasle
  • Philosophy East & West, HWU (30 p.). 1957. (See also immediately above and below, as well as 1958c).
  • ANP: Meeting some Asian philosophers, 6 p. handwritten material (See also immediately above, as well as 1958c).
  • Evolution. HWU (Ca. 18 p.). Ca. 1950? <info>
  • Existence. HWU (5 p.). DATE?
  • The Fable of the Four Preachers. TU (5p.). Ca. 1962. Theological. <abstract>
  • Finnegan's Wake - an interpretation. TU (3 p.). DATE? (Early). <info>
  • The History of Logic. TU HWU (altogether 63 p.) Ca. 1961-62. Apparently some of this material was used for one or more BBC-broadcasts in 1962. <info>
  • Independence Proofs Without Models. HWU (10 p.). DATE? (On account of its subject matter and/or technical sophistication this must probably be 60'es material).
  • "Intensionality". HWU (5 p.). DATE? <info>
  • Is There a Problem of Science and Religion? HWU (16 p.). DATE? (Early). Theological.
  • It Was to Be. T (12 p.). ORIG 1976 b. <info> Also two drafts on the subject, a) HW (8 p.), b) HW (20 p.). (Both written on University of Manchester paper).
  • Folder 'Keynes'. Ca. 1946–49. Items for a projected book on the logician J. N. Keynes (1852-1949). <info>
  • Report on Kneale & Kneale: The Development of Logic (1962). TU (50 p.). Ca. 1961. <info>
  • Knowledge. HWU (15 p.). DATE? (Early).
  • Law and Order. TU (3 p.) DATE? (With additions by hand)
  • The Logic of Belief. TU (10 p.). 1956. <info>
  • Logical Laws and Truth-valueless Sentences. T (2 p.). ORIG 1970c.
  • Logic and Lewis Carroll. TU (4 p.). Ca. 1950. <info>
  • The Logic of Obligation and the Obligations of the Logician. TU (41 p.; last 1 1/2 page are a handwritten footnote). DATE: 1957-58? (Also in box 5). <info>
  • Names of Names. TU (6 p.). 1965. Dated 07.01.65.
See also: 1) Third folder/box 8 ('Names'), 2) Second folder/box 8 (the manuscript for 'Objects of Thought' 1971a).
--- Per Hasle
  • Negation. HWU (5 p.). DATE: 1967? - Related to 1967i. <info>
  • On Some Proofs of the Existence of God. T (9 p.) HW (5 p.) ORIG 1976b. Original DATE: Ca. 1956?  <info>
  • The Ontological Argument. HWU (37 p.). Ca. 1960-65. <info>
  • The Paradox of the Prisoner in Logical Form. TU (8 p.). Ca. 1958.
The paper is marked CUC (Canterbury University College) and it is rather formal: probably 57/58. (See also (undated, unsigned) letter on 'The Prisoner's Paradox' ", Third folder/box 4).-
--- Per Hasle
  • Parts of Speech. TU (31 p) and HWU (33 p.). Ca. 1959? <info>
  • The Philosophy of Albert Schweitzer. HWU (12 p.). DATE? (Early). Theological.
  • Philosophy in a Young Country. HWU (32 p.). 1965.
Mary Prior ('BR'): "A talk given in NZ 1965 when a British Council Visiting lecturer".(See also Ninth Folder/box 10 and First folder/box 4).
--- Per Hasle
  • Philosophy and the Growth of New Sciences. HWU (32 p.). Ca. 1952? (incomplete)
"Possibly ANP's inaugural lecture on taking up the professorship at Canterbury University College". (Mary Prior ('BR')).
--- Per Hasle
  • Prior & Kenny on BBC. TU (13 p. of small size). Ca. 1960-65.
A discussion concerning 'reference' and (non-)'existence', in all likelihood broadcast in England.
--- Per Hasle
  • Pro diabolo contra J. Bosanquet. HWU (13 p.). Ca. 1952/53. <info>
  • (Translation of) William of Ockham. TU (10 p.). DATE? (A translation with comments on text by William of Ockham (c. 1285-1349) – most probably Prior's own translation and comments).
  • Items from a dictionary of formal logic. TU (98 p.). 1949-51. <info>
   
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