Metaphysics

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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.

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Dictates of "Physica Generalis" in Edinburgh University by Herbert Kennedy, dated 1689, written down by C. Dalyell, M.A..

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6 booklets of notes taken at 44 lectures in Advanced Honours Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh.

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

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...

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The papers consist of copies of typescript of the then unpublished workMetafisico classica e cristiana.

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Reader and Professor of Philosophy between 1964 and 1998, and as Emeritus Professor from 1998 onwards - including his unpublished Inaugural Lecture (1986) and Gifford Lectures (1995).Subjects of the lectures include, but are not limited to: Philosophy and...

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Papers of John Lee, Principal of the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Divinity, including: lectures and notes on divinity, biblical criticism, rhetoric and sermon writing, ecclesiastical history, and metaphysics and moral philosophy (pencil note: "[illegible] he seems to have taken Prof Wilson's course); "fragments of lectures, sermons, and prayers"; and "pamphlets, letters and miscellaneous papers relating to the Marriage Affinity Bill 1850".

Scope and Contents The boxes contain folders within which are typescript or photo-copied notes and lectures, and unpublished talks. There is material relating to The zenith of the greats , History, sacred and profane and Linguistic philosophy reconsidered. Other subjects covered include: Plato, for class Logic and Metaphysics II; material for Metaphysics I and II; versions of Metaphysics I; lectures on Descartes; lectures on...

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 ...