Virgil C. Aldrich papers

Virgil C. Aldrich papers, 1928-1999

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Aldrich, Virgil C.
Title: Virgil C. Aldrich papers
Dates: 1928-1999 (inclusive)
19281999
Quantity: 12 linear feet
Collection Number: ACCN 1726
Summary: The Virgil C. Aldrich papers (1928-1999) contain correspondence, journals, notebooks, writings, essays, and articles. Alrich was educated at Oxford College, the Sorbonne, and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught philosophy at several universities before retiring to Salt Lake City in 1973 where he was an adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Utah.
Repository: University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions: Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Languages: English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Aldrich (1903-1998) was born on 13 September 1903 in Narsinghpur, India. He studied at Oxford College and the Sorbonne before receiving his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 1931. Aldrich taught philosophy at Rice University, Columbia University, Kenyon College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the director of the American Studies Institute in Kyoto, Japan, as well as president of the American Philosophical Association (APA) and the American Society for Aesthetics. He retired in 1973 and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he became an adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Utah. He died on 28 May 1998.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Virgil C. Aldrich papers (1928-1999) contain correspondence, journals, notebooks, writings, essays, and articles. Most of the collection contains manuscripts and copies of articles that Aldrich wrote.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Boxes 1-21 were donated by Don Garrett in 1998.

Box 22 was donated by Don Gustafson in 2004.

Box 23, folder 1 was donated by Dr. Alan Mendelson in 2009.

Separated Materials

Photographs were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P0866).

Processing Note

Processed by Kate Kimball in 2001.

Addendum processed by Lisa DeMille in 2004.

Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2013.

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Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Correspondence and JournalsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	1	Viola Cordova, Correspondence
1	2-11	Correspondence	1942-1997
1	12	Journal	1961
1	13	Travel Journal

Virgil C. Aldrich, Manuscripts of TextReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
2	1	"General Theory of Meaning and Truth," Manuscript Excerpt
2	2-5	Handbook for Philosophers of Science, Manuscript and Outlines
2	6-8	The Informal Logic of the Employment of Expressions, Manuscript
3		Virgil C. Aldrich, Philosophy of Art This box contains the manuscript and revisions.	1963 and 1980
4		Virgil C. Aldrich, Picture Thinking: Philosophical Essays This box contains manuscripts, excerpts and drafts.

Virgil C. Aldrich, Publications, A - YReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
5	1	"The Adventures of P and Q"
5	2	"Aesthetic Perception and Objectivity"	1978
5	3	"Aftermath Series"
5	4	"Analytic: A Posteriori" This folder also includes an essay by Jay Rosenberg entitled "Aldrich on the Analytic: A Posteriori."	1969
5	5	"An Aspect Theory of the Mind"	1965-1966
5	6	"An Iceberg and Two Pictures of Language"
5	7	The Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Review
5	8	"Are There Vague Sense-Data?"	1934
5	9	"A Rose Has No Teeth"
5	10	"Art and the Human Form"	1971
5	11-13	"At First Sight"
6	1	"Back to Aesthetic Experience"	1966
6	2	"Barbara"
6	3	"Behavior, Simulating and Nonsimulating"	1966
6	4	"Being in Touch With"
6	5	"Believing and Burning"
6	6	"Beyond Ethics?"	1941
6	7	"Bittersweet"
6	8-9	"The Body of a Person," Manuscript and Excerpts
6	10	"Can Representations Be Identical with Anything?"
6	11	"Categories and Spinoza's Attributes"
6	12	"Chess Not Without the Queen"	1958
6	13	"The Cognitive Role of Action"
6	14	"Colors as Universals"	1952
6	15	The Concept of Memory, Reviews	1967-1968
6	16	"Cultural Viscosity--A Brief Meditation"
6	17	"Dennett on Description and Expression"
6	18	"De Rerum Natura"
6	19	"DesCartes' [Descartes's] Method of Doubt"	1937
6	20	"Description and Expression: Physicalism Restricted"	1977
6	21	"Design, Composition, and Symbol"	1969
6	22	"Devi's Revenge"
6	23	"Devils--Red, White, and Black: An Open Letter to Mr. Malcolm X"	1963
6	24	"The Dialectic Implicit in Ordinary Language"
6	25	"Discussions"	1934; 1979
7	1	"Does Seeing Have Intentional Objects?"
7	2	"Do Linguistics Acts Make Me Tired?"	1964
7	3	"The Dream Argument for Philosophical Skepticism"
7	4	"Education for Aesthetic Vision"	1968
7	5	"'Expresses' and 'Expressive'"	1978
7	6	"Expression by Enactment"	1954
7	7	"External Idealism"
7	8	"Facts, Things, and What We Simply See"
7	9	"Farewell"
7	10	"The Field of Action"
7	11	"Finis"
7	12	"Form in the Visual Arts"	1970-1971
7	13	"Friendly Wilderness"	1990
7	14	"Freud, Ordinary Language, and the Language of Poetry"
7	15	"Hamlet and Tragedy"
7	16	"The High and the Holy"	1954
7	17	"Illocutionary Space"	1971
7	18	The Image in Form, Review	1972
7	19	The Image, Knowledge on Life, and Society, Reviews	1957
7	20	"Image-Mongering and Image-Management"
7	21	"Images as Things and Things as Imaged"	1955
7	22	"Individuation"
7	23	"The Informal Logic of the Employment of Expressions"	1954
7	24	"Is an After-Image a Sense-Datum?"	1955
7	25	"It's Better with Your Shoes Off"
7	26	"Jesus or Plato?"	1934
7	27	"Job and J. B."	1959
7	28	"John Dewey's Use of Language"
7	29	Kant's Principle of Personality, Reviews	1971
7	30	"Kripke's Account of the Argument against Private Language"
7	31	"Kripke on Wittgenstein on Regulation"	1987
7	32	L'Absolill de F. H. Bradley	1928
7	33	"The Language of Art"	1965
7	34	"The Language of Religion"	1955
7	35	"Language and Philosophy"	1955
7	36	"The Last Word on Being Red and Blue All Over"	1954
7	37	"The Liar Paradox with Trimmings"
8	1	"Linguistic Mysticism"	1976
8	2	"Logically Necessary A Posteriori Propositions"	1969
8	3	"Making Something of Something"	1982
8	4	"Man as the Symbolizing Animal"	1949
8	5	"McGregor on Dickie's Institutionalized Aesthetic"
8	6	"A Meditation on the New Theory and Practice of Mediation"	1975
8	7	"To Members of the APA"	1941
8	8	"Mention and 'Use' as Applied to Nonlinguistic Actions"	1968
8	9	"Messrs. Schlick and Ayer on Immortality"
8	10	"The Middle, the End, and the New Beginning"	1967
8	11	"Mirrors, Pictures, Words, Perceptions"	1989
8	12	"Mothersill and Gombrich on the Language of Art"	1968
8	13	"Mr. Quine on Meaning, Naming, and Purporting to Name"	1955
8	14	"Musings of a Modern Vagabond"
8	15	"My Biggest Scare"
8	16	"My Century," Excerpt
8	17	"My Life in Pieces"
8	18	"My Philosophical Turnings," Excerpt
8	19	The Nature of Aesthetic Value, Excerpt
8	20	"New Aesthetics"	1954
8	21	"Nonnumerical Counting"
8	22	"Notes from Nowhere"
8	23	"Nothing-In-Itself"
8	24	"Objective Sense Data"	1979
8	25	"On Seeing Bodily Movements as Actions"	1967
8	26	"On the Nature of Things"
8	27	"On Persons as Things"
8	28-29	"On Seeing What is Not There," Manuscript, Excerpt, and Notes	1972
8	30	"On What it is Like to be a Man"	1973
8	31	"The Origin of the Apriori"	1954
8	32	"The Outsider"
8	33	"Past Evidence"
8	34	"Persons as Natural Works of Art"
8	35	"Persons, Dressed and Undressed"
8	36	"Philosophical Aphorisms"
8	37	"Philosophical 'Ins' and 'Outs'"
8	38	"Philosophical Remarks"
8	39	Philosophical Inquiry, Review	1956
9	1	"The Philosophy of American Patriotism"	1977
9	2	"Photographing a Fact?"	1989
9	3	"Pictorial Meaning, Picture Thinking, and Wittgenstein's Theory of Aspects"	1958
9	4	"Pictures and Persons--An Analogy"	1975
9	5	"Picture Space"	1958
9	6	"Picturing, Seeing and the Time-Lag Argument"	1975
9	7	"The Pineal Gland Updated"
9	8	"The Place of a Representation"
9	9	"Plank's Where is Science Going"	1933
9	10	"Point of View"	1979
9	11-13	Preface to a Philosophy of Meaning
9	14	"Professor Petrie on Seeing and Seeing-As"
9	15	"Raw Feels, Animals, Robots, and People"
9	16	"Reflections on Ayer's Concept of a Person"	1965
9	17	"Rejoinder to Davis"
9	18	"Relativism, Rorty, and Reality"
9	19	"Rorty's Circumvention of Derrida"
10	1	"Skepticism and Ideology"
10	2	"The Scientific Abuse of Imagination"	1941
10	3	"Seeing, Knowing, and Believing: A Study of the Language of Visual Perception"	1966
10	4	Seeing and Knowing, Review
10	5	"Seeing a Whole of Parts," Textual Addendum
10	6	"Self-Consciousness"	1965
10	7-8	"Sight and Light"	1974
10	9	"The Simply and the Literally Given in Experience"	1954
10	10	"Simply Seeing Something"
10	11	"Sita"
10	12-13	"Something Really Unheard Of"	1974
10	14-16	"Space and Spaces"	1997-1998
10	17	"Speaking the Same Language"	1955
10	18	"Spontaneous Writing"
10	19	"Standard of Length"
10	20	"Story, History, and Highstory"
10	21	"Symbolism and Similarity"
10	22	"A Sympathetic Suggestion for Feminists"
10	23	"Symposium: Are Religious Dogmas Cognitive and Meaningful?"	1954
10	24	"Taking Casual Theory of Perception Seriously"	1932
10	25	"The Teacher's Station and Its Duties"	1968
10	26	"Telling, Acknowledging, and Asserting"	1966
10	27	"Theory and the Integrity of Experience"	1940
11	1	"Things, Material Things, Bodies, and Physical Objects"
11	2	"Too Obvious for Words"	1963
11	3	"Tragedy West and East"	1959
11	4	"Two or Three Thoughts on 'Use of an Expression'"	1962
11	5	"Visual Metaphor"	1968
11	6	"Visuelle Metapher"	1983
11	7	"Visual Noticing without Believing"	1974
11	8	"What Appears?"	1954
11	9	"What It Is Like To Be Me"
11	10	"What Made Me Philosophical"
11	11	"What's New and Important in Recent Philosophy of Art"
11	12	"What We See With"	1938
11	13	A Whiteheadian Aesthetic, Review	1962
11	14	"Wittgenstein: In Memoriam"
11	15	"Word-Portraiture"	1933
11	16	"You"

Virgil C. Aldrich, Various WritingsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
12	1	Articles and Notes	1997
12	2-4	Essays and Notes
12	5	Ideas for Stories, Plays, and Poems
12	6-8	Poems and Short Stories
12	9	Speech
12	10	Various Textual Excerpts
12	11-15	Various Writings
13		Notebooks This box contains Virgil C. Aldrich's notebooks containing lecture notes and writing notes.	1987
14		Notes and Notebooks This box contains Virgil C. Aldrich's notebooks containing various writings and notes on the seminar on Maurice Merleau-Ponty.	1987

Faculty and Student EssaysReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
15	1	Rueben Abel, Essay
15	2	Peter Appleby, Essay	1980
15	3	Lynne Rudder Baker, Essays
15	4	Margaret P. Battin, Essay
15	5	Donald W. Benson, "Nagel's Interpretation of Death as Evil"
15	6	Gerald Biesinger, Essay	1983
15	7	F. Farnum Brown, Essays	1984
15	8	Jeffrey Combs, "On Death Not as a Limit"
15	9	"Death and the Personal Perspective"
15	10-11	Kamet Ericson, Textual Excerpts
15	12	Penny A. Freppon, "Children's Concepts of the Nature and Purpose of Reading in Different Instructional Settings"	1991
15	13-14	Marie Frinquegnon, Essays
15	15	Ann Gebhart, "Coming into Being and Passing Away: Can Chisholm Help?"
15	16	Shirlee Geiger, Essays	1980-1981
15	17	Don Gustafason, Essays	1965-1966, 1990
15	18	Pat Hanna, Essays	1981
15	19	Jean G. Harrell, "Method in Aesthetics"
15	20-23	Bernard Harrison, Essays	1982-1998
16	1	Pui Kwan Ho, "The Mental and the Physical"
16	2	Lauri Hobbs, Essay	1976
16	3	Ric Holt, "The Criteria for Self-Identity"
16	4	Brooke Hopkins, Essays	1989
16	5	Robert Howell, "Seeing As"
16	6	Kelly Dean Jolley, "Walden: Philosophy and Knowledge of Human Kind"
16	7	Hiroshi Kawano, "Folk Aesthetics on Computer Metaphor"
16	8	Joseph F. Kellener, "Physicomania: Remarks on Its Etiology, Diagnosis, and Cure"	1977
16	9	Justin Leiber, "On What Sort of Speech Act Wittgenstein's Investigations Is and Why It Matters"	1995
16	10	Alan Mendelson, "On Publishing the Letters of a Holocaust Surivivor"
16	11	Alan Miller, "The Behaviorist Entailment Implicit in Goodman"
16	12	Manfred Moritz and Harold Ofstad, Essays
16	13	Carolyn Norris, "Edifying Philosophy: Liberation through the Apprehension of the Nature of the Self: Reflections on the Thought of Kierkegaard and Marx"	1982
16	14	Shirley Pedler, "Beyond Traditional Philosophy"
16	15	Richard Rorty, "Pragmatism, Davidson, and Truth"
16	16	Clarence B. Sheffield, Jr., A Critical Study of Alois Riegl's Spatromische Kunstindustrie	1983
16	17	Bill Steinquist, "Towards a New Theory of Resemblance"
16	18	Preston Steiff, "The Logic of Talk about Personal Survival"	1980
16	19	Fred Tabor, "Essence, Relativism, and Wittgenstein"	1982
16	20	Patricia Tibolla, "On the Relationship between a Person and His Body"	1975
16	21	Zeno Vendler, "On What We Know"
16	22	Jim Wheelwright, Essays	1974-1975
16	23	Nick White, Essays	1998
16	24	Paul Ziff, "What Is Said"

Articles and PublicationsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
17	1	"Afterword (Submitted to Social Text)"
17	2	"Alfred, Lord Tennyson"
17	3	"Art in the Circle of Life"
17	4	R. F. Atkinson, "Explanation in History"	1972
17	5	Bruce Aune, "Cans and Ifs: An Exchange"
17	6	J. L. Austin, "Ifs and Cans"
17	7	"Austin and Examples"
17	8	Kurt Baier, "What is Value? An Analysis of the Concept"	1951
17	9	Monroe C. Beardsley, "The Aesthetic Point of View"	1970
17	10	"Beardsley on 'Expression'"
17	11	J. S. Bell, "Bertlmann's Socks and the Nature of Reality"	1981
17	12	Stephan Bodian, "Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: A Conversation with Arne Naess"
17	13	Brains in a Vat, Excerpt
17	14	"Casual Schema Which Explains the Onset of Emotion"
17	15	"Dworkin's Theory of Law: Law as an Essentially Contested Concept"
17	16	"The Explicator"	1964
17	17	Hans J. Eysenck, "New Ways in Psychotherapy"
17	18	Feminist Philosophy and Socially Situated Knowledge, Essays and Articles	1988; 1992
17	19	"The Field of Philosophy"
17	20	Sandra Harding, "Feminist Justificatory Strategies"
17	21	"Getting a Living"
17	22	"God Is Dead," Notes
17	23	D. W. Gotshalk, "C. I. Lewis on Esthetic Experience and Esthetic Value"	1968
17	24	Bernard Harrison, "Forster and Moore"
17	25	Bernard Harrison, "Rigidity and Description: A Reply to Ryckman"	1984
17	26	Mary Hesse, "Probability as the Logic of Science"	1972
17	27	Kishimoto Hideo, "The Stolen Years"
17	28	Terence Horgan, "From Supervienience to Superdupervenience: Meeting the Demands of a Material World"
17	29	Robin Horton, "African Traditional Thought and Western Science"
17	30	Don Howard, "Holism, Separability, and the Metaphysical Implications of the Bell Experiments"
17	31	"The Independence of Expressive and Nonexpressive Properties of Artworks"
17	32	International Newsletter of Aesthetics	1990
17	33	"Introduction: From Form to Differance," Textual Excerpt
17	34	Jon P. Jarrett, "Bell's Theorem: A Guide to the Implications"	1987
17	35	The Journal of Philosophy	1968-1979
17	36	"The Justification of Deduction (1973)"
17	37	Evelyn Fox Keller, "Feminism and Science"	1982
17	38	David Keyt, "Plato's Paradox that the Immutable is Unknowable"	1969
17	39	Geneviere Lloyd, "The Man of Reason"
17	40	D. M. Mackinnon, "Death"
17	41	F. David Martin, "Naming Paintings"	1966
17	42	B. K. Matilal, "Gangesa on the Concept of Property (Kevalanvayin)"	1968
17	43	Colin McGinn, "Truth and Use"
17	44-45	Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bibliography and Textual Excerpts
18	1	Patricia Y. Miller, Martha R. Fowlkes, "Social and Behavioral Constructions of Female Sexuality"
18	2	Mind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy	1963-1987
18	3	"The Monist"	1966
18	4	Henry Moore, Articles on Sculptures
18	5	Jeffrie G. Murphy, "Rationality and the Fear of Death"	1976
18	6	Winfield E. Nagley, "Kierkegaard's Irony in the 'Diapsalmata'"	1966
18	7	Alan Nelson, "How Could Scientific Facts Be Socially Constructed?"	1994
18	8	"New Directions in Health Care"	1980
18	9	Brian O'Shaughnessy, "Processes"	1972
18	10	Philosophia: Philosophy Quarterly of Israel	1984
18	11	Philosophical Investigations, Journal	1980
18	12	Philosophy of Art Aesthetics, Journal Articles	1958-1995
18	13	"The Philosophy of John Muir"
18	14	H. Putnam, "Brains and Behavior"	1961
18	15	"A Puzzle about Designation"
18	16	"The Reality of the Past (1969)"
18	17	D. A. Rees, "Some Problems of Universalisation"
18	18	Richard Rorty, "Deconstruction and Circumvention"	1984
18	19	Richard Rorty, "Holism, Intrinsicality, and the Ambition of Transcendence"	1993
18	20	"To Save the Phenomena," Textual Excerpt
18	21	R. B. Schiffer, "The Concept of Death: Tradition and Alternative"	1978
18	22	John R. Searle, "Assertations and Aberrations"
18	23	J. M. Shorter, "Personal Identity, Personal Relationships, and Criteria"	1971
18	24	"Singing the World, Language and Perception"
18	25	Hans Sluga, "Frege on Meaning"
18	26	Alan Sokal, "A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies"	1996
18	27	Alan Sokal, "Transgressing the Boundaries"	1996
18	28	Henry Staten, "Wittgenstein's Boundaries"
18	29	Henry Staten, "Wittgenstein's Descriptive Project"	1988
18	30	L. W. Sumner, "A Matter of Life and Death"	1976
18	31	Elizabeth Telfer, "Friendship"	1971
18	32	Mary Turner, Kenneth J. Kurt, Skills to Care for the Elderly, the Chronically Ill, and the Dying, Correspondence and Manuscript Excerpt	1980
18	33	"Uncaged"
18	34	"Unnecessary Afternote for Philosophers Only"	1996
18	35	Steven Weinberg, "Sokal's Hoax"	1996
18	36	Orson W. White, "The One Way Street"	1973
18	37	Peter Winch, "Can a Good Man be Harmed?"	1964
18	38	John Wisdom, "Gods"
18	39	Joseph S. Wu, "Western Philosophy and the Search for Chinese Wisdom"

General MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
19	1-4	Virgil C. Aldrich, Biographical Information
19	5	American Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting Materials	1958, 1965
19	6	The Concept of Expression, Course Materials	1978
19	7	Kenyon College, Faculty Materials	1964
19	8	The Logic of Talk about Being Alive and Being Dead, Course Materials	1980
19	9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), East West Workshop Materials
19	10-11	Philosophy of Art, Course Materials	1982-1983
19	12	Relativism and Rationality, Course Materials	1984
19	13	Syllabus, Philosophy 685	1987
20		Untitled Manuscript This box contains untitled and unclassified manuscript text and excerpts.

Oversize MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
21	1	Virgil C. Aldrich, "The Language of Religion"	1955
21	2	Articles and Reviews	1965, 1969
21	3	Kenyon Collegian	1959
21	4	Christopher Speeth, "A Short Essay on Bamboo"

Writings by Virgil C. AldrichReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
22	1	"The Body of A Person"
22	2-3	"Experience and Expression"
22	4	"My Century"	1987

Correspondence with Dr. Alan Mendelson, 1960-1999Return to Top

Container(s): Box 22, Box 23

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Philosophy--Study and teaching--Utah

Personal Names

Aldrich, Virgil C.--Archives

Form or Genre Terms

Correspondence
Diaries
Notebooks

Archives West Finding Aid

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