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  1. 'Mr Koestler's New System'. Review of Arthur Koestler, Insight and Outlook. New Statesman, 1949. Typescript.
  2. 'A Lot of Learning'. Review of Aldous Huxley, Adonis and the Alphabet and Other Essays, The Spectator, 1956. Typescript.
  3. 'Critical Notice'. Review of P.F. Strawson, Individuals. The Indian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 1 No. 2, 1959. Offprint.
  4. 'A new work on the bases of scientific explanation'. Review of Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science. Scientific American, 1961. Press cutting.
  5. 'Professor Popper's Work in Progress'. Review of Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, and of Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies. New Statesman, 1963. Manuscript.
  6. 'Mr Wilson's Programme'. Review of Harold Wilson, Purpose in Politics. New Statesman, 1964. Typescript.
  7. 'The Freedom of the Will'. Review of Frederick Vivian, Human Freedom and responsibility. [c.1964]. Manuscript.
  8. Review of Niels Egmont Christensen, On the Nature of Meaning. Mind, Vol. LXXV No. 299, 1966. Offprints.
  9. Review of Bertrand Russell, Autobiography. Encounter, 1967. Manuscript, typescript.
  10. 'Sartre and Nizan'. Review of Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew, and of Paul Nizan, Aden-Arabie. The Spectator, 1968. Typescript.
  11. 'Pragmatism and Logic'. Review of W.V. Quine, Philosophy and Logic, and of Ontological Relativity and Other Essays. Times Literary Supplement, October 1970. Typescript.
  12. Review of Hunter Davies, The Glory Game. [1972]. Manuscript draft.
  13. 'The Case for Materialism'. Review of Anthony Quinton, The Nature of Things. Encounter, December 1973. Manuscript, typescript.
  14. 'Wittgenstein the School Teacher'. Review of William Warren Bartley, Wittgenstein. 1974. Manuscript, typescript, correspondence.
  15. 'Morality, Perception and Existence'. Review of P.F. Strawson, Freedom and Resentment and other Essays. New Statesman, July 1974. Typescript, correspondence.
  16. 'The Eye and the Brain'. Review of R. L. Gregory, Concepts and Mechanisms of Perception, [1974]. Galley Proof.
  17. 'Maurice'. Review of Hugh Lloyd-Jones, ed., Maurice Bowra - a celebration. London Magazine, April/May 1975. Manuscript, typescript.
  18. 'Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French Philosophy'. Review of Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy, vol. 9, Maine de Biran to Sartre, and of Joseph Chiary, Twentieth Century French Thought from Bergson to Levi-Strauss. 1975. Manuscript.
  19. Three short reviews (T.R. Fehrenbach, The Comanches; Charles Taylor, Hegel; Peter Quennell (ed.), Memoirs of William Hickey), n.d. [c.1975]. Manuscript, typescript.
  20. 'The Early Novels'. Marine de Courcel, ed., Malraux: Life and Work, 1976. Manuscript, typescript.
  21. 'Hommage to Peirce'. Review of D. Greenlee, Peirce's Concept of Sign. Journal of Literary Semantics, Vol. V No.1, 1976. Manuscript, offprint.
  22. 'Learn All About It'. Review of Christopher Booker, The Booker Quiz. The Spectator, Jan 1977. Manuscript draft.
  23. 'Camus's Juvenilia'. Review of Cahiers Albert Camus II Youthful Writings. [1977]. Typescript, manuscript, correspondence.
  24. 'The Weight of Evidence'. Review of L. Jonathan, The Probable and the Provable. Books and Bookmen, 1977. Manuscript, typescript.
  25. 'Know Yourself'. Review of J.Z. Young, Programs of the Brain. [ New York Book Review], August 1978. Manuscript, typescript, correspondence.
  26. 'Meaning and Truth'. Review of Michael Dummett, Truth and Other Enigmas. 1979. Manuscript, typescript.
  27. 'Our Lost Leader' ['Labour's Lost Leader']. Review of Philip Williams, Hugh Gaitskell. London Review of Books, November 1979. Manuscript.
  28. 'Le Penseur'. Review of Konstantin Kolenda, On Thinking. Encounter, December 1979. Typescript, manuscript.
  29. 'A Damp Squib' ['A Meeting of Minds']. Review of Randall Collins, The Case of the Philosopher's Ring. Times Literary Supplement, October 1980. Manuscript, typescript.
  30. 'Mathematics According to Wittgenstein'. Review of Crispin Wright, Wittgenstein on the Foundations of Mathematics. [1980]. Manuscript, typescript.
  31. 'What is What?'. Review of David Wiggins, Sameness and Substance. London Review of Books, January 1981. Manuscript, typescript, proof.
  32. 'Saving the Appearances;. Review of Bas van Fraassen, The Scientific Image. London Review of Books, March 1981. Manuscript.
  33. 'Philosophical Explanations'. Review of Robert Nozick. [1981]. Manuscript.
  34. 'Poetry and Politics'. Review of Peter Alexander, Roy Campbell. A Critical Biography. [1981]. Manuscript.
  35. 'Collected Papers' ['Past, Present, Future']. Review of G.E.M. Anscombe, Collected Philosophical Papers: Vols. I-III. London Review of Books, January 1982.
  36. 'A Theory of Meaning'. Review of Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. Times Educational Supplement, May 1984. Manuscript, typescript.
  37. 'Russell's Abortive Theory of Knowledge'. Review of Elizabeth Ramsden Eames, ed., The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 7, Theory of Knowledge: The 1913 Manuscript. Times Literary Supplement, December 1984. Manuscript, typescript.
  38. 'Let Us Calculate'. Review of J. David Bolter, Turings Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age. New York Review of Books, March 1984. Manuscript, typescript.
  39. 'Russell's Logicism'. Review of C.W. Kilmister, Philosophers in Context: Russell. [1984]. Manuscript, typescript.
  40. 'Philip Toynbee'. Review of Jessica Mitford, Faces of Philip: A Memoir of Philip Toynbee. The Listener, July 1984. Manuscript.
  41. 'The Sources of Evil'. Review of Mary Midgeley, Wickedness: A Philosophical Essay. The Listener, September 1984. Manuscript.
  42. 'Espionage Myths' ['Spy Myths']. Review of Nigel West, Unreliable Witness. The Listener, October 1984. Manuscript.
  43. 'Quis Custodiet?' ['Incompetent Intelligence']. Review of Chapman Pincher, Too Secret Too Long, and of Nicholas Bethel, The Great Betrayal. The Listener, November 1984. Manuscript, typescript.
  44. 'The Foundations of Ethics'. Review of Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, The New Humanist, Autumn 1984. Manuscript photocopy.
  45. 'In Piam Memoriam'. Review of Victor Lowe, Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work. London Review of Books, June 1985. Manuscript, typescript.
  46. 'What is Christianity?'. Review of A.N. Wilson, How Can We Know?. Sunday Times, 1985. Manuscript, typescript.
  47. 'Ethics Without Morality' ['Morality is Hard']. Review of Bernard Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. The Listener, April 1985. Manuscript.
  48. 'On With the Dance'. Review of John Mueller, Astaire Dancing. The Musical Films. [1985]. Manuscript, typescript.
  49. 'Love and Lust' ['Sex in the Head']. Review of Roger Scruton, Sexual Desire. The Observer, March 1986. Manuscript, typescript, press cutting.
  50. 'Much to be Proud of' ['Music and Immunity']. Review of Peter Medawar, Memoir of a Thinking Radish: An Autobiography. The Listener, April 1986. Manuscript, typescript.
  51. 'The Will to Believe' ['Multifarious Miracles']. Review of Brian Inglis, The Hidden Power. Sunday Times, July 1986. Manuscript, typescript, press cutting.
  52. 'Writing About Soccer'. Review of Brian Glanville, ed., The Joy of Football. [ Sunday Times, August 1986]. Manuscript, typescript, correspondence.
  53. 'Mater Familias'. Review of The Pebbled Shore: The Memoirs of Elizabeth Longford. [ The Sunday Telegraph, August 1986]. Manuscript, typescript.
  54. 'A Philosophical Pioneer'. Review of Arnold A. Rogow, Thomas Hobbes: Radical in the Service of Reaction. [ Sunday Times, February 1987]. Manuscript, typescript.
  55. 'The Phenomenon of Sartre' ['A Grievance with the Guru']. Review of Annie Cohen-Solal, Sartre: A Life. Sunday Times, October 1987. Typescript.
  56. 'The Key to Wittgenstein'. Review of Brian McGuinness, Wittgenstein; A Life, Vol. 1: Young Ludwig. [1987]. Manuscript, typescript.
  57. 'American Education'. Review of Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind. [1987]. Manuscript.
  58. 'Owning Up'. Review of David Berman, A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell. New Humanist, Spring 1988. Manuscript.
  59. 'Psychoneural Pairs'. Review of Ted Honderich, A Theory of Determinism: The Mind, Neuroscience and Life-Hopes. London Review of Books, May 1988. Press Cutting.

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  • Creation: 1949-1988

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1 box (3 folders)

Language of Materials

  • English

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