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Metaphysics

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

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Class cards of Andrew Lawson, 1808-1810

 File
Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0022
Scope and Contents

Two University of Edinburgh class cards admitting the bearer, Andrew Lawson, to David Ritchie's lectures on Logic & Metaphysics, 1808, and to John Playfair's lectures on Natural Philosophy, 1810.

Dates: 1808-1810

EU Arts: Advanced Honours Metaphysics, 1907

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Identifier: BAI 1/2/5
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6 booklets of notes taken at 44 lectures in Advanced Honours Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh.

Dates: 1907

EU Arts: Intermediate Honours Metaphysics, 1905-1907

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Identifier: BAI 1/2/4
Scope and Contents

4 booklets of notes taken at 25 lectures in Intermediate Honours Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh.

Dates: 1905-1907

Notebooks of lectures at the University of Edinburgh, taken down by Robert Low Orr and William J. Orr

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1919
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of 20 notebooks containing notes on legal and medical lectures given at the University of Edinburgh, taken down by Robert Low Orr and William J. Orr. Also includes some class cards, exam papers, and ephemera of Robert Low Orr. Robert Low Orr: Lectures on Metaphysics (Fraser) Robert Low Orr: Law lectures (Muirhead, Macpherson) Robert Low Orr: Scots law...
Dates: 1873-1886

Papers of Giordano Bruno Cavagna

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-646
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The papers consist of copies of typescript of the then unpublished workMetafisico classica e cristiana.

Dates: 1961-1966

Papers of Peter Howard Jones, Professor of Philosophy

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1833
Scope and Contents This collection consists of lecture courses, single lectures and notes (some revised and published later) delivered in the University of Edinburgh, or in its name elsewhere, by Professor Peter Jones FRSE, as Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Philosophy between 1964 and 1998, and as Emeritus Professor from 1998 onwards - including his unpublished Inaugural Lecture (1986) and Gifford Lectures (1995).Subjects of the lectures include, but are not limited to: Philosophy and...
Dates: 1964-1999; 2015

Quaestiones Metaphysicae by Antonius Andreas, 1459

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Identifier: MS 124/ff. 57r-190r
Contents This section contains Quaestiones Metaphysicae by Antonius Andreas, or Antonio Andrés. This text consists of excerpts from Questionibus super Metaphysica by Duns Scotus, an important philosopher-theologian. Antonius Andreas was a Spanish Franciscan theologian and pupil of Duns Scotus. This is a philosophical text about metaphysics.The Text starts on f. 57r with the words ...
Dates: 1459

Student notes on natural philosophy taken by George Dalgliesh

 Collection — Box CLX-A-1677
Identifier: Coll-2012
Content Description

This notebook contains lectures on the works of Aristotle, dictated by Thomas Craufurd, Regent of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and taken down by student George Dalgliesh. The lectures cover the third and fourth years of Dalgliesh’s degree, and, besides logic and metaphysics, deal with scientific subjects such as physics, astronomy, and anatomy. The notes are embellished with humorous doodles.

Dates: 1660-1662

The Freedom of the Will, c1908

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Identifier: BAI 1/3/23
Scope and Contents

An essay written by John Baillie as a student at the University of Edinburgh or New College, examining the metaphysical problem of whether will is free.

Dates: c1908