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Philosophy

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:

Papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie, 1908-1961

 Series
Identifier: BAI 7
Scope and Contents

The papers relating to Donald Macpherson Baillie consist of:


  1. articles, cuttings and ephemera
  2. career/employment resumés and references
  3. correspondence
  4. memorials and letters of condolence
Dates: 1908-1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers
f. 189r
f. 189r

Philosophy lecture notes by Magnus Makculloch, 1477

 part
Identifier: MS 205/ff. 1r-200r
Contents The manuscript proper contains lecture notes written in 1477 in Louven by Magnus Makculloch. These notes are in Latin and are about on lectures about philosophy and logic by Petrus de Mera, Andrea de Alchmaria, and Theodricus Meyssach. The first part of the manuscript (ff. 1r-58v) contains extracts from the six books of Aristotle’s Organon, as well as Porphyry’s introduction to it. The second part of the manuscript (ff. 59r-200r) contains commentaries on the...
Dates: 1477
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Makculloch Manuscript (composite manuscript containing two texts)

Quotations from Jacques Chevalier and Lloyd Morgan, c1928

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/1/7
Scope and Contents

A notebook containing quotations from Henri Bergson, a biography by Jacques Chevalier and Emergent Evolution and Life Mind and Spirit by zoologist turned psychologist, Lloyd Morgan.

Dates: c1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Notes and notebooks

Science Studies Unit, 1970-1979

 Sub-Series
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/M1/1/16
Scope and Contents
  1. correspondence
  2. minutes
  3. reports
Dates: 1970-1979
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Molecular Biology / Faculty of Science

Seth (James). History of Modern Philosophy, between 1882 and 1903

 Series — Box Dk.3.7: Series Coll-2254/3; Series Coll-2254/2
Identifier: Coll-2254/3
Scope and Contents

Seth (James). Lectures on the History of Modern Philosophy taken down by W. H. Stevenson ca 1882-1903. 4 notebooks.

Dates: between 1882 and 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Notes on Lecture given by Gerald Baldwin Brown, Samuel Henry Butcher and James Seth, taken down by W. H. Stevenson

Student notes, 1906-c1920

 Series
Identifier: BAI 1/2
Scope and Contents

Lecture notes on subjects including theology, philosophy and psychology

D.Phil. thesis manuscript

Dates: 1906-c1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie

Summa contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas, 1 September 1466

 Item
Identifier: MS 75
Contents 15th century Italian manuscript of Thomas Aquinas's Summa contra Gentiles, also known as Liber de Veritate Catholicae Fidei contra Errores infidelium, among other names, originally written during circa 1259-1265. A theological treatise devoted to explaining core beliefs of the Catholic faith to infidels, and to providing a philosophical defense for arguments against the doctrine. This copy was done in Vigevano, Italy, by the...
Dates: 1 September 1466
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

The Bedmakers' Sermon, undated

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/8/1/1
Scope and Contents

Article examining the existence of God from different theological and philosophical perspectives.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Articles and Reviews / Reviews by John Baillie

The General Definition of Religion, c1908

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/3/16
Scope and Contents

An essay written by John Baillie as a student at the University of Edinburgh opr New College, examining what constitutes 'religion', including its relationship to both morality and philosophy.

Dates: c1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Early essays, lectures and notes

The Nature of Definition as practised by Socrates, c1908

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/3/3
Scope and Contents

An essay written by John Baillie [as a student at the University of Edinburgh or New College, examining Socrates approach to the question of definition in a philosophical context.

Dates: c1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Early essays, lectures and notes