Guide to the Papers of Quentin Gibson

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MS 6937

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Collection Summary

Creator
Quentin Boyce Gibson
Title
Papers of Quentin Gibson
Date Range
1931-1993
Collection Number
MS 6937
Extent
1.26 metres (9 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
National Library of Australia

Introduction

Scope and Contents

The collection comprises undergraduate essays, unpublished papers, drafts of published work, lecture notes and correspondence. The papers range through all of Gibson's academic career in the University of Western Australia, Canberra University College and the Australian National University. The correspondence, of which most is either administrative or university related, includes letters from his father W.R. Boyce Gibson, his brother Alexander (Sandy) Boyce Gibson and fellow philosophers including David Armstrong and Peter Davson-Galle.

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2592146).

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Quentin Gibson, National Library of Australia, MS 6937, [box number and series and/or file number]'.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The papers were donated to the National Library of Australia in two lots, the first in 1984 by Quentin Boyce Gibson and the second, in 2002 after his death, by his wife.

An interview with Gibson, recorded by Hazel De Berg in 1972, is held in the Oral History Collection (ORAL DeB 623).

Some papers of Quentin Boyce Gibson are held at the Australian National University archives.

Arrangement

The arrangement of the papers is in the order created by Gibson.

Biographical / Historical

Quentin Boyce Gibson was born 31 August 1913, the son of William Ralph Boyce Gibson, (1869-1935) and Lucy Judge Peacock, (1872-1953). Coming from a distinguished family of Australian philosophers, his father was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne as was later his elder brother Alexander (Sandy) Boyce Gibson.

Gibson was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. He graduated from the University of Melbourne with an Honours degree in Philosophy in 1934 before moving to Oxford University where he gained a further Honours degree in Philosophy and Economics in 1937 and a Masters degree in 1940.

Gibson held the post of Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia from 1937 to 1944. In 1945, Gibson took a Lectureship in Philosophy at Canberra University College. Becoming Senior Lecturer in 1961. Following the transfer of the College to the Australian National University, Gibson held the position of Associate Professor of Philosophy until his retirement in 1978.

During his career, Gibson undertook study leave in India, England and Germany and held a Visiting Professorship at New York University. His principal publications were Facing philosophical problems (1948, 1961) and The logic of social enquiry (1960).

Gibson married Joyce Manton in 1938.

Item Descriptions

Series 1. The Logic of Social Enquiry Routledge, 1960 - Box 1-2

Correspondence about publication, 1957-1963 (File 1) - Box 1

Correspondence about text (File 1) - Box 1

Final submitted version, part 1: anti-scientific views about social enquiry (File 2) - Box 1

Final submitted version, part 2: the logical peculiarities of social enquiry. (File 3) - Box 1

Emendations and discarded Sheets, part I, chs. 1-7 (File 4) - Box 1

Semi-final draft and notes, part II, chs. 8-17 (File 5) - Box 1

General notes and draft A: chs. 1-4, 8-9. 10-12. (File 6) - Box 1

Draft A : chs. 13-17. (File 7) - Box 1

Draft B : chs. 1-4 and draft C: chs. 1-3 (File 8) - Box 1

Draft D: chs. 1-6 (File 9) - Box 2

Introduction, criticism of abstraction, criticism of generality - freedom and change (File 10) - Box 2

Draft of shortened published version, index etc. (File 11) - Box 2

Draft of shortened published version, index etc. (File 12) - Box 2

Series 2. University of Western Australia, 1940-1944 - Box 2

University of Western Australia : (File 13) - Box 2

Philosophy 1 - Some notes, especially summaries of course for, 1942-44 (File 13) - Box 2

Honours work, 1940 (File 13) - Box 2

Engineering class, 1940-41 (File 13) - Box 2

External tuition papers, 1944 (File 13) - Box 2

University of Western Australia: (File 14) - Box 2

Philosophy IIA (logic), 1943 (File 14) - Box 2

University of Western Australia : (File 15) - Box 2

Modern philosophy (Philosophy IIB) (File 15) - Box 2

General papers (File 15) - Box 2

Notes on Spinoza, Leibniz, Post-Kantian philosophy (File 15) - Box 2

University of Western Australia : (File 16) - Box 2

Introduction to Social Studies, (1943) (File 16) - Box 2

Lecture notes - summaries = political philosophy, (1944) (File 16) - Box 2

Series 3. Canberra University College, 1945-1956 - Box 3

Canberra University College, 1945 (File 17) - Box 3

Philosophy, pt. 1 (File 17) - Box 3

Syllabus and text books for psychology section of the course (File 17) - Box 3

Canberra University College, 1945-1947 (File 18) - Box 3

Philosophy 1 - discussion of art (File 18) - Box 3

Canberra University College, 1946-1948 (File 19) - Box 3

Early Greek philosophy (File 19) - Box 3

Canberra University College, 1956 (File 20) - Box 3

Philosophy 1 - Republic (File 20) - Box 3

Series 4. Philosophical writings and notes - Box 3-7

'Excerpts from a Freiburg diary of W.R. Boyce Gibson' in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol. 2, 1971, pp.58-83 (File 21) - Box 3

Drafts and correspondence (File 21) - Box 3

Logical peculiarities of Social Enquiry - introduction psychology and the social sciences (File 22) - Box 3

Laws and theories; The use of statements of chance; The use of tendency statements (File 23) - Box 3

The use of the assumption of rationality; The study of history; Social enquiry and social practice (File 24) - Box 3

Facts and values (File 25) - Box 3

Objectivity (File 26) - Box 3

Purposes and reasons; Inductive evidence and sympathetic understanding (File 27) - Box 3

Manuscripts of published papers and booklet to 1948 (File 28) - Box 4

Facing philosophical problems, 1947-1972 (File 29) - Box 4

'Argument from chances' (long and short versions); the short version was published in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1953 (File 30) - Box 4

'Social forces' - drafts (File 31) - Box 4

Papers read to Australian Association of Philosophy, 1956 (File 31) - Box 4

Article published in Journal of Philosophy, 22 May 1958 (File 31) - Box 4

'Intuition': Paper read to AJP, Aug. 1960 (File 32) - Box 4

Article published in Indian Journal of Philosophy, April 1961 (File 32) - Box 4

'Standpoints in philosophy' in Essays in Philosophy, 1962 (File 32) - Box 4

'Is there a problem about appearances?' in Philosophical Quarterly, Oct. 1966 (File 32) - Box 4

'Knowing the future' in Analysis, Dec. 1966 (File 32) - Box 4

'The limits of social prediction' in The Monist, July 1968 (File 33) - Box 4

'Power' in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, May 1971 (File 34) - Box 4

'Arguing from rationality in the social sciences': Drafts to 1971 seminar (File 35) - Box 4

'Arguing from rationality in the social sciences': Drafts toward publication (File 36-38) - Box 5

'Social technology and praxis' in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, March 1980 (File 39) - Box 5

'Tendencies' in Philosophy of Science, June 1983 (File 40) - Box 5

Black notebook (File 41) - Box 5

Notes and summaries to 1944 (File 42) - Box 6

East-West Conference Dec. 1957 (contains the papers of J.L. Mackie, M.M. Sharif, R. Das, A.N. Prior, K. Daya some notes possibly by Alan Stout) (File 43) - Box 6

Oxford tutorial papers, 1936-1937 (File 44) - Box 6

Western Australia, 1937-1944 (File 45) - Box 6

Unpublished papers, 1945-1962 (File 46) - Box 6

Unpublished papers, 1963-1971 (File 47) - Box 6

Unpublished papers on relativism, positivism and the social sciences, 1972-1985 (File 48) - Box 7

Unpublished papers on existence and knowledge, 1979-1991 (File 49) - Box 7

Unpublished papers on realism and existence, 1981-1986 (File 50) - Box 7

Encyclopaedia entries for Thomas Mautner (File 51) - Box 7

Ontology of scientific realism 'There is only one way of being' (beginning of an idea for a paper) (File 52) - Box 7

Series 5. Correspondence, 1937-1993 - Box 7-8

Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy 1952 Canberra Congress (File 53) - Box 7

The Australian New Zealand Association for the Advancement Of Science 1954 Canberra Congress (File 53) - Box 7

Correspondence about papers, 1972-1993 (File 54) - Box 7

Correspondence with Peter Davson-Galle on existence and ontological pluralism, 1989-1991 (File 55) - Box 8

Correspondence with David Armstrong on causation and the causal theory of knowledge, and associated papers, Oct-Nov. 1987, and on universals and states of affairs, Dec. 1992 (File 56) - Box 8

University related correspondence 1937-1954 (includes letters from John Passmore, Alexander 'Sandy' Boyce Gibson, Arthur Fox and Alan Donegan) (File 57) - Box 8

American correspondence before and during stay in America, Sept. 1966 - Feb. 1967 (File 58) - Box 8

Indian correspondence before and during stay in India, Dec. 1958-April 1959 (File 59) - Box 8

University correspondence 1955-1959 (including organising of study leave from 1955, and while on study leave 1959) (File 60) - Box 8

University correspondence, 1960-1973 (File 61) - Box 8

University correspondence from 1973 (File 62) - Box 9

Series 6. Essays and thesis - Box 9

University of Melbourne essays, 1931-1933 (pass) (File 63) - Box 9

University of Melbourne essays, 1932-1933 (honours) (File 64) - Box 9

Thesis An inquiry into the relation between causal efficacy and presentational immediacy as factors in perception written 1934-1935 parts 1 2 Includes two proposals, 1935 (File 65) - Box 9


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