Alan Richard White was born in 1922 in Toronto of Irish parents and was educated at Middleton College and Presentation College, Cork, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he obtained a double first in Classics and Philosophy and combined a Boxing Pink with Presidency of the University Philosophical Society. He was deputy lecturer there in 1945/46.
In 1946 he was appointed assistant lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull, when the staff of the department consisted solely of Professor T.E. Jessop and himself. He became Professor of Philosophy at Hull in 1961, a post which he retained until his retirement in 1989. He was also Dean of Arts 1969-1971 and Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1976-1979, Visiting Professor at a number of American universities and President of the Mind Association 1972 and of the Aristotelian Society 1979/80.
His first major publication was G.E. Moore (1958), to be followed by Attention in 1964, The philosophy of mind (1967), Truth (1970), Modal thinking (1975), The nature of knowledge (1982), Rights (1984), Grounds of liability (1985), Methods of metaphysics (1987), The language of imagination (1990) and Misleading cases (1991). His work was characterised by a meticulous study of the working of language which led to his interest in the philosophy of law, shown in some of his later works. He retired to Nottingham, where he had been appointed Special Professor in 1986, and he died in 1992.
The collection consists mainly of manuscripts and typescripts
U DAW/1 Manuscripts and typescripts of philosophical works, circa 1945-1992
U DAW/2 Miscellaneous, 1960-1991
U DAW/3 Published works, 1952-1992
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Donated by Mrs Enid White on 22 April 1992
Enid White
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Also includes notes on 'Morality'
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Includes manuscript corrections and additions and prize or fellowship dissertation
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Includes Trinity College Dublin notes
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Includes Hull lecture notes from c.1948 with later interpolations
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Described as a good example of A R White's method
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Includes notes towards 'Twentieth century analytical philosophy'
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Contents include reading list, Bibliography, Historic sketch, Positivism, The Vienna Circle, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Schlick and Wittgenstein, The period 1921-, Rudolf Carnap, Russell. Draft portions of a book undertaken in the 1950s and intended for publication. 'G E Moore' (1958) was extracted from this material. Includes bibliographies from the late 1960s.
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Includes correspondence regarding manuscript. Paper [unpublished] is mainly a reply to Furlong in 'Mind', 1948.
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Includes correspondence. Reply [unpublished] to Berlin in 'Mind', 1950.
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Reply [unpublished] to Warnock in 'Mind', 1951
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Includes notes for Hull Adult Education class at Brough
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Includes correspondence
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Includes chapter 1: The nature of philosophy, Questions, Bibliography, Hull University year 1 lecture notes, and Manuscript notes
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Includes 2 versions of Hull University lecture notes and manuscript notes
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Contains part of a Hull lecture course 'Necessary & contingent truths', notes of criticism, etc., 'Necessary truth & empirical minds', a reply [unpublished] to Sloman in 'Analysis' 1965 with notes by Sloman and Peter [Geach], 'Necessary & contingent truth' (here entitled 'Analytico - synthetic') with comments by an unknown writer.
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Includes draft entry for 'The concise encyclopedia of Western philosophy and philosophers', edited by J O Urmson, Hutchinson
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Includes a reply [unpublished] to Mayo's response in 'Mind', 1964 to A R White's 'Achilles at the shooting gallery' in 'Mind', 1963, and correspondence
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See also DAW/1/21
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Includes notes for BBC Open University discussion with Godfrey Vesey and Rodney Hirst and manuscripts notes
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Paper for public lecture at Temple University, where AR White was Visiting Professor in 1974
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It is written on the back of drafts of 'Modal thinking', 1975
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Includes unsigned letter to A R White referring to two papers
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Reply [unpublished] to Dancy in 'Analysis', 1977
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Includes correspondence
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Includes correspondence
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Includes correspondence with Van Straaten
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Includes typescript preface with correspondence for 'Grounds of liability'
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Includes typescript of 'Conceptual analysis in the law' with manuscript notes, and a plan of book in which 'The logic of impossible attempts' would form a chapter
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Material for book on the philosophy of law
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Draft of introductions to sections A and B of part 1 of The language of imagination
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This was also published in 'Liability and responsibility', edited by R G Frey and C W Morris, Cambridge University Press
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Includes correspondence and a proof copy and additions
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Includes correspondence
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Includes manuscript notes and notice of a seminar on privacy, Nov 1990
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Includes entries for 'Penguin dictionary of philosophy' (Austin, Ayer, Berkeley, Moore, Russell, Ryle, Vienna Circle, Epistemology, Speech acts, Theories of truth) with letter from the editor, Thomas Mautner to A R White
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Contains preliminary materials for paper to be published in 'John Hunter festschrift' and correspondence with editors Jack Canfield and Stuart Shanker
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Includes materials for a volume on the philosophy of law
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Translation into French by Thomas De Praetere, Universite d'Ottawa, of chapter 1 of 'Truth' by A R White, with letter to A R White and notes of his reply
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Includes correspondence
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Photocopies of entries for A R White in biographical dictionaries and of lists of his works
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Which would have given A R White visiting lecture series at Baylor University, Waco, Texas 1992/93 or 1993/94
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Relating to the appeal by a lecturer in Philosophy to the Visitor of the University of Hull, against his dismissal on the grounds of redundancy and to subsequent legal action
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Includes letter from Simons to A R White and manuscript notes of A R White's reply (3)
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Includes review of 'The William James lectures', by J L Austin; edited by J O Urmson, Oxford University Press, 1962, from 'Analysis', supplement 1, pp.58-64
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Includes manuscript notes
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Includes manuscript notes
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Includes manuscript note and letter from Manus Nunan referring to the article
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Includes correspondence and typescript index, and syllabus of course on philosophy of law
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Includes correspondence and typescript index and correspondence with Croom Helm
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Includes correspondence, typescript index and bookjacket.
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Includes correspondence
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