This collection is open for research.
Arthur Fisher Bentley, 1870-1957, was a philosopher and author. Bentley received his
Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1895. He wrote for the
Chicago Times-Herald (later the
Record-Herald) until 1910, when he retired to work and write at his
orchard in Paoli, Indiana. During World War I, Bentley was a member of the Red
Cross.
The collection is organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II.
Writings; and, III. Miscellaneous.
The Bentley mss., 1891-1968, consists of the correspondence and writings of Arthur
Fisher Bentley, 1870-1957, author. Correspondence and files following Bentley's
death are those of his widow Imogene (Shaw) Bentley. Also present in the writings is
Bentley's
Makers, Users and Masters, edited and with
an introduction by Sidney Ratner, 1908-1996, professor.
Also included are Bentley's diplomas from Grand Island High School, Grand Island,
Nebraska, 1885; Johns Hopkins University, A.B., 1892, Ph.D., 1895; the University of
Berlin, 1893; his notice of election to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Johns Hopkins
University, 1895; and an undated certificate in recognition of services performed,
issued by the American Red Cross.
Note on Indexing Term - "Science": Writings by social scientist Arthur Fisher Bentley in the
collection include: On the relation of the individual to society in the social sciences and Knowledge and
Society and Makers, Users and Masters.
Bentley mss. II; also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana.
Series:
Box 6
II. Writings
Includes typescripts, notes, proofs, research materials, and clippings.
Address, Indianapolis: Risk. Dec.
26, 1946
Analytic sociology. June
1931
(6 folders)
Aphoristically. 1949
As through a glass darkly. Mar.
1942
(3 folders)
The bearing of transaction on research in the social Sciences.
May 10, 1951
Behavior knowledge fact. Dec. 1932-1935
(35 folders)
Box 7
Behavior knowledge fact. Dec. 1932-1935 (cont.)
(12 folders)
Behavioral fact. Mar.
1947
(3 folders)
Behavioral superfice. Jan.
1940
(4 folders)
Bridgman's concept in operation. June
1936
(7 folders)
Carnap. Feb. 10,
1949
Carnap's "Truth" vs. Kaufmann's
"True."
1949
(11 folders)
"Causational" and "valuational" sciences of society.
1896
Box 8
Comments on Mead. Aug. 1937-1946.
The concept. 1937
(2 folders)
Conceptual reliance in logical construction. May 1936
(2 folders)
The condition of the western farmer. 1891-1893
(27 envelopes and folders)
Criticizing Dewey. Jan.
1950
Declassifying Dewey. July
1940
Dewey and Bentley. 1949
Dewey and Bridgman. 1950
Differentiation of term and symbol. 1945
Eine Dreifache Annäherung des Kontinuumproblemes. 1929
(3 folders)
Epilogue. 1953
(14 folders)
Examination of Einstein's term "space."
Jan. 1931
Factual references of psychological terms. 1949-1956
Factual space and time of behavior. Dec.
1940-1941
(3 folders)
The fiction of "retinal" image.
1943-1951
For discussion (say with a critic of my construction). Oct. 1954
The human skin…July 1937-1940
(6 folders)
Indianapolis talk. June 20,
1950
Individual and social - terms and facts. 1928
(4 folders)
The individuality as the basis for reasoning in the Social
sciences. 1895
Box 9
Inquiry into inquiries. 1953-1954
(12 folders)
In summary. Jan. 10,
1949
In summary. Nov.
1951
Jamesian datum. Dec. 1942-1943
(7 folders)
Kaufmann seminar. Mar.
1949
Kennetic inquiry. 1950
(6 folders)
Knowledge and society. 1910
(9 folders)
L. Bloomfield. 1940-1941
(2 folders)
Language. Oct. 29, 1939-Sept. 1, 1950
Language. 1940-1942
(9 folders)
Box 10
Language. 1940-1942 (cont.)
(3 folders)
Language as human behavior. Sept.
3, 1948
Lecture notes. 1896
(6 folders)
Linguistic analysis of mathematics. 1928-1932
(26 folders)
Box 11
Linguistic analysis of mathematics. 1928-1932 (cont.)
(11 folders)
Linguistic structure of mathematical consistency. 1930-1931
(3 folders)
Linkage. Jan. 12,
1953
Logic and logical behavior. 1948-1949
(15 folders)
Box 12
Makers and users. 1919-1920
(30 folders)
Makers, users and masters. Printer's copy. July 8, 1968
(5 folders)
Box 13
Making words meet. Jan. 22,
1941
Materials for a comparison of organisms and societies. 1895
[Materials for various talks] 1932-1940
(2 folders)
Mathematics: notes and memoranda. Aug. 1945-1951
Mathematics paper. Mar. 25, 1947-July 4, 1947
Memo on 1927 sociology papers. July
1, 1954
Memo on skin. 1951
Memoranda and notes on books and letters of John Dewey. 1942-1951
Memoranda on Dewey's
Logic.
1939-1946
(25 folders)
Memorial...Deep waterway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi
River. 1902
(5 folders)
See also: Oversize
2
Mike Lane material. 1902-1910
(3 folders)
Miscellaneous papers. 1920-1923
Morris. Oct.
1949
Municipal ownership interest groups in Chicago. 1904-1907
(33 folders)
Muscle-structured psychology. Mar. 1952-Jan. 1954
Music. 1940-1942
Neurath, Kaufmann, and Dewey. Dec.
2, 1944.
New ways and old talk about men. 1928-1929
(2 folders)
Notes and memoranda on Dewey's books and articles. Oct. 10,
1936-1946
Number one and number ought. 1930
(3 folders)
Observable behaviours. 1939-1940
(5 folders)
Observation (transactional). Apr.
1953
On Lashley. 1947-1948
On the relation of the individual to society. 1894
Paper for American Scientist. Mar.
30, 1951
Box 15
Pending essays. 1926-1928
(2 folders)
Perry's theory of value. 1927-1928
Phenomena called "conscious."
June
1941-1942
(2 folders)
Phenomenal monism. ca.
1895
Philosophy. Sept. 12,
1942
Phrasings. 1951
Physicists and fairies. Dec. 1937-1938
(3 folders)
Physics reading notes. 1934-1938
(8 folders)
Play of interests in legislative bodies. 1905-1906
(25 folders)
Political law as fact of inquiry. Jan. 1, 1950
Political science group. Aug. 8,
1950
Positive and the logical. Aug.
1936
Projects. 1936-1954
Possible paper on psychology of organism. Sept. 25, 1940
Postulates of operational physics. 1928-1930
(4 folders)
Prefatory note to collection of essays. Apr. 1952.
Sociology and mathematics. Jan.
1931
(4 folders)
Preliminary essays on psychology. 1933
(10 folders)
Box 16
Preliminary essays on psychology. 1933 (cont.)
(3 folders)
Problem: to know some more about "to
know."
Jan. 11, 1944
Process of government. 1906-1907. Printed and bound
items:
Laws of Illinois. 1905
House Journal, Illinois. 1905
Senate Journal, Illinois. 1905
House Synopsis, 44th General Assembly [Illinois] Apr. 24, 1905.
Final Synopsis of Senate and House Bills [Illinois] Jan. 4, 1905-May 6,
1905
New General Ordinances [Illinois] Dec.
1906
Report of the Illinois State Legislative Board of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen. 1905
Illinois State Geological Survey: The Petroleum Industry of
Southeaster Illinois. 1906
Proceedings of the City Council of Chicago. Apr. 10, 1905-July
10, 1905
(11 issues)
Process of government. 1906-1907
(37 folders)
Box 17
Process of government. 1906-1907
(49 folders)
Box 18
Process of government. 1906-1907
(14 folders)
Process of vision. 1943-1944,
1950
(22 folders)
The psychic and the social. 1929-1931
Public law club, Columbia. Notes. Jan.
1942
Public policy. May
1942
Readings and notes. 1935-1952
(6 folders)
Box 19
Readings and notes. 1935-1952 (cont.)
(4 folders)
Relativity in man and society. 1924-1926
(21 folders)
Box 20
Relativity in man and society. 1924-1926 (cont.)
(2 folders)
Remarks on the method in the study of society. 1926
Science. June
1941
Science and mathematics. Apr.
1949
Science and social science. Feb.
1942
Scientific behavior versus logical misbehavior. Feb. 1936
(3 folders)
Seeing and the seen. 1951
(4 folders)
Self in use. July
1953
Short cut. Aug. 2,
1952
Signs of error. 1948
(4 folders)
Simplicity as technique in transaction. June 19, 1954
Situational versus psychological theories of behavior. 1938-1939
(19 folders)
Sketch on Pavlov. Aug.
1947
(2 folders)
Sketches. Aug.-Oct. 1952
Skinner comment. 1951-1952
Slightly philosophical. July 20,
1945
Snapping shutters. 1949
A sociological critique of behaviorism. 1928
Sociological studies and papers. 1926-1927
(9 folders)
Sociology paper. Nov. 14, 1944-1950
Some logical considerations…May
1941
Subjects and objects. Mar.
1942
(2 folders)
A suggested development in Dewey's
Logic
(5 folders)
Sundry notes and sketches. 1945-Aug. 5, 1952
This is a cat. 1942
Thought and the brain. June 22,
1949
Time and knowledge. Feb.
1949
Truth, reality, and behavioral fact. Nov.
1942-1943
(4 folders)
Box 21
Units of investigation in the social sciences. 1895
Unity of science. Sept.
1940
(2 folders)
Vision materials. 1949-1951
(14 folders)
A visual illusion affecting mathematical reasoning. 1932
Widened observations. 1951
Wisecracks. Oct. 10,
1949
The word "transaction."
1956
(9 folders)
Writings by others
Bentley, Arthur F. and John Dewey. Knowing and the known.
1943-1949
(31 folders)
Box 22
Bentley, Arthur F. and John Dewey. Knowing…1943-1949 (cont.)
(41 folders)
Box 23
Bentley, Arthur F. and John Dewey. Knowing…1943-1949 (cont.)
(19 folders)
Dewey, John. Aid to puzzled critics. 1948
(14 folders)
Dewey, John. Concerning signs. July 21, 1944
Dewey, John. Faith and science. undated
Dewey, John. Further as to valuation judgments. 1943
Dewey, John. Importance, significance and meaning. Mar. 31, 1950
Dewey, John. Means and consequences. 1951
Dewey, John. Peirce's theory of linguistic signs, though and
meaning. 1945
Dewey, John. Review of
Process and
reality
, by Whitehead. Oct. 26, 1929.
Dewey, John. Values, valuations, and social facts. 1945
Dewey, John. What is it to be a sign. May 25, 1945
Taylor, R.W. Life, language, law. 1957
Oversize 1
Editorials (clippings). 1903-1910
(2 vols.)
Oversize 2
Editorials (clippings). 1903-1910
(9 folders)
Memorial...Deep waterway from Lake Michigan to the
Mississippi. 1902
See also: Box
13
Oversize 3
Municipal ownership interest groups in Chicago. 1904-1907. Newspaper clippings, maps, plates, graphs and
tables.
See also: Box
13
and
Box 14
