Selected papers of Herbert W. Schneider, 1924-1976 | Southern Illinois University Special Collections Research Center

Collection Overview

Title: Selected papers of Herbert W. Schneider, 1924-1976

ID: 1/2/MSS 107

Primary Creator: Schneider, Herbert Wallace, (1892-1984)

Extent: 8.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by author.

Subjects: American Council of Learned Societies., American Society for the Study of Religion., East-West Philosophers' Conference, International Association for the Study of History of Religions., Philosophy, American - 20th century, Schneider, Herbert Wallace, 1892-1984, Unesco

Forms of Material: Bush, Wendell T., 1866-1941 - Correspondence, Correspondence., Dewey, John, 1859-1952 - Correspondence, Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989 - Correspondence, Manuscripts for publication., Mead, George Herbert, 1863-1931. - Correspondence, Schneider, Herbert Wallace, 1892-1984 - Correspondence, Schneider, Herbert Wallace, 1892-1984 - Manuscripts, Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene, 1867-1940 - Correspondence

Languages: English, French, German

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The collection consists mainly of letters to Schneider, manuscripts, reprints of articles by authors other than Schneider, and material relating to organizations in which Schneider was active.

The correspondence ranges from 1923 to 1976. The earlier letters include well-known correspondents such as John Dewey, Wendell T. Bush, Sidney Hook, George Herbert Mead, and Frederick J.E. Woodbridge. Although some of the letters are concerned with Schneider's philosophical theories and ideas, most of them comment on his books or articles, or concern his European travels; extensive correspondence exists for the period Schneider was working with UNESCO.

There are about 40 manuscripts in the collection, most of which are carbons; approximately 15 are known to be unpublished. Also in the collection are chapters from his books, copies of some of his lectures, also several articles by Dewey and Woodbridge which are now scarce.

The collection also contains minutes and matters pertaining to the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Society for the Study of Religion, East-West Philosophers' Conference and the International Association for the Study of History of Religions, reflecting Schneider's interest in these associations.

In addition to the manuscript material in this collection, there are 46 standing volumes, some of which came from the libraries of Wendell T. Bush, John Dewey, and Frederick Woodbridge. Only three of Schneider's own works are included, one being part of the Woodbridge Lecture series. The volumes included in the American Religion Series are the products of Ph.D. research to which Schneider devoted special attention, since they are aspects of his own research in this field.

Biographical Note

Herbert Wallace Schneider was born on March 16, 1892, in Berea, Ohio. He studied under John Dewey at Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. in philosophy, later he became John Deweyâ€™s teaching assistant.

In 1928 and 1937 Schneider was a research fellow in Italy, and made a careful study of fascism, its roots, and expression in Corporate State theory.

After serving as an instructor and assistant professor at Columbia, he was appointed full professor of religion and philosophy in 1929. In addition, he was a Fulbright Fellow to France in 1950 where he lectured on American philosophy at the Universities of Paris, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Grenoble, and Marseilles; from 1952-1957 he was an Eranos lecturer in Ascona, Switzerland. He also served as a visiting professor at the Universities of Illinois, Washington, and Georgia, Emory University, Colorado College, Pomona College, and taught summers at the University of Minnesota, University of Hawaii, and Western Washington State College.

After his retirement in 1957, Schneider was a Distinguished Service Professor at Colorado College from 1958-1959; Professor of Philosophy at the Claremont Graduate School from 1959-1967 and director of Blaisdell Institute for Advanced Study in World Cultures and Religions (affiliated with Claremont Colleges) from 1959-1963, while serving as Acting Dean of the Claremont Graduate School from 1960-1962. In 1967, Schneider became Emeritus Professor of Claremont Graduate School.

He has written numerous articles and books, some of them endowed lectures: Three Dimensions of Public Morality (Indiana), Morals for Mankind (Missouri), and Ways of Being (Columbia).

Schneider lived in retirement in Claremont, California, until his death on October 15, 1984.

Subject/Index Terms

American Council of Learned Societies.
American Society for the Study of Religion.
East-West Philosophers' Conference
International Association for the Study of History of Religions.
Philosophy, American - 20th century
Schneider, Herbert Wallace, 1892-1984
Unesco

Administrative Information

Repository: Southern Illinois University Special Collections Research Center

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Preferred Citation: [Item], Selected papers of Herbert W. Schneider, Special Collections Research Center, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence, 1924-1976],
[Series 2: Unpublished Manuscripts],
[Series 3: Manuscripts],
[Series 4: Chapters in Books],
[Series 5: Societies, Conferences],
[Series 6: Lectures, Notes, Miscellaneous],
[Series 7: Reprints and Articles by Schneider, 1928-1974],
[Series 8: Authors Other Than Schneider, 1908-1971],
[Volume 1: Civilized Religion: An Historical and Philosophical Analysis.],
[Volume 2: Religion in 20th Century America.],
[Volume 3: An Ethical Philosophy of Life Presented in Its Main Outlines.],
[Volume 4: Essays in Radical Empiricism.],
[Volume 5: The Meaning of Truth, a Sequel to "Pragmatism".],
[Volume 6: A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures on the Present Situation in Philosophy.],
[Volume 7: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Popular Lectures on Philosophy.],
[Volume 8: The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy.],
[Volume 9: Character and Opinion in the United States with Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America.],
[Volume 10: The Life of Reason: or the Phases of Human Progress.],
[Volume 11: The Life of Reason: or the Phases of Human Progress.],
[Volume 12: The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History.],
[Volume 13: Philosophy and Christianity: A Series of Lectures Delivered in New York, in 1883, on the Ely Foundation of the Union Theological Seminary.],
[Volume 14: The Life of Reason: or the Phases of Human Progress. Volume III: Reason in Religion.],
[Volume 15: Mind: A Quartlerly Review of Psychology and Philosophy. Vol. II.],
[Volume 16: ___. Vol. III. London, 1878. (fragile)],
[Volume 17: ___. Vol. IV. London, 1879. (fragile)],
[Volume 18: ___. Vol. XIII. London, 1888. (fragile)],
[Volume 19: Philosophy. Volume I.],
[Volume 20: Theosophy: A Modern Revival of Ancient Wisdom.],
[Volume 21: Since Mrs. Eddy.],
[Volume 22: Piety Versus Moralism: The Passing of the New England Theology.],
[Volume 23: The New Church in the New World: A Study of Swedenborgianism in America.],
[Volume 24: The Drama of Life after Death: A Study of the Spiritualist Religion.],
[Volume 25: Republican Religion: The American Revolution and the Cult of Reason.],
[Volume 26: ___. Republican Religion: The American Revolution and the Cult of Reason. Copy 2],
[Volume 27: Communal Pietism Among Early American Moravians.],
[Volume 28: The Religious Revolution of To-Day.],
[Volume 29: Man and Metaphysics.],
[Volume 30: Nature and History.],
[Volume 31: A Philosophy of the Real and the Possible.],
[Volume 32: The Ground and Nature of the Right.],
[Volume 33: Ways of Being: Elements of Analytic Ontology.],
[Volume 34: On Some of Life's Ideals: On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings. What Makes Life Significant.],
[Volume 35: The Critical Theology of Theodore Parker.],
[Volume 36: George Sylvester Morris: His Philosophical Career and Theistic Idealism.],
[Volume 37: Three Christian Transcendentalists: James Marsh -- Caleb Sprague Henry -- Frederic Henry Hedge.],
[Volume 38: Les Etudes Philosophiques: Kierkegaard.],
[Volume 39: Institut International de Philosophie. Entretiens Philosophiques d'Athenes.],
[Volume 40: International Institute of Philosophy and Indian Philosophical Congress. Science and Philosophy, Individual Freedom, and Community Traditional Values.],
[Volume 41: Library of the 10th International Congress on Philosophy. Volume II: Philosophical Essays.],
[Volume 42: The Nature of Concepts: Their Inter-Relation and Role in Social Structure.],
[Volume 43: Pakistan Philosophical Conference, Second Session.],
[Volume 44: Papers and Abstracts of the Second Inter-American Congress of Philosophy.],
[Volume 45: Religious Humanism. Volume, IX, No. 2, Spring 1975.],
[Volume 46: Société de Philosophie de Bordeaux. Les Sciences et la Sagesse: Actes du Ve Congrès des Sociétés de Philosophie de Langue Française.],
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Series 8: Authors Other Than Schneider, 1908-1971

Box 7

Item 1: "Truth, Goodness, and Beauty" by S. Alexander, undated
Item 2: "The Precursors of Naturalism" by John Tull Baker, undated
Item 3: "Logical Subjects and Physical Objects" by Charles A. Baylis, undated
Item 4: "Modern Faith and the Utopian Fallacy" by Albert G. A. Balz, undated
Item 5: "The Deeper Ranges of Authority" by Julius Seelye Bixler, 1949 February
Item 6: "Cosmic Attributes" by John Elof Boodin, 1943 January
Item 7: "The Dialectical Unity of Consciousness and the Metaphysics of Religion" by Edgar Sheffield Brightman, undated
Item 8: "Le Rapport de la Pensée Scientifique a L'idéal de Connaissance" by L. Brunschvicg, undated
Item 9: "La Querelle de L'athéisme" by M. Léon Brunschvicg, 1928
Item 10: "The Metaphysical Matrix of Science" by Peter A. Carmichael, 1953 July
Item 11: "Possibility in History" by Morris R. Cohen, undated
Item 12: "Legal Theories and Social Science" by Morris R. Cohen, 1915
Item 13: "The Bond of Natural Being" by James Collins, 1962 June
Item 14: "Method and Content in Philosophy" by George P. Conger, 1946
Item 15: "Social and Political Thought in Latin America" by Harold E. Davis, undated
Item 16: "The Soviet Concept of Man" by Richard T. De George, 1964
Item 17: "Being and Knowing: a Dialectical Study" by Grace A. De Laguna, 1936
Item 18: "Existence and Potentiality" by Grace A. De Laguna, 1951
Item 19: "Ethics" by John Dewey, 1908
Item 20: "The Subject-Matter of Metaphysical Inquiry" by John Dewey, 1915
Item 21: "Die Phaenomenologie und Ihre Vieldeutigkeit" by Hans Driesch, undated
Item 22: "Lyric and Analytic Elements in Naturalistic Philosophy" by Irwin Edman, 1941
Item 23: "The Value of Ethical and Political Philosophy as Guides in Practice" by G. C. Field, undated
Item 24: "Science and Culture" by Lawrence K. Frank, 1940
Item 25: "The Problem of Truth" by H. N. Gardiner, 1908
Item 26: "Dogmatism and Tolerance" by Etienne Gilson, 1952
Item 27: "Barth on Feuerbach" by John Glasse, 1964
Item 28: "Kelsen and the Concept of Legal System" by M. P. Golding, 1961
Item 29: "Twentieth Century Theme: a Philosophical Study" by D. W. Gotshalk, 1971
Item 30: "La Filosofia: Concetto, Struttura, Caratteri" by Augusto Guzzo, 1961
Item 31: "Kategorien der Geschichte" by Nicolai Hartmann, undated
Item 32: "Paul Carus: A Case Study of Philosophy on the Frontier" by William H. Hay, 1956
Item 33: "Der Streit um das Daseinsrecht der Metaphysik und die Geschichte Ihres Begriffs" by H. Heimsoeth, undated
Item 34: "Philosophy" by Marten ten Hoor, 1943
Item 35: "Some Remarks Concerning the Principal Metaphysical Implications of Recent Physical Theories and Points of View" by Jørgen Jørgensen, undated
Item 36: "Experience and Existence in Dewey's Naturalistic Metaphysics" by Sholom J. Kahn, 1948
Item 37: "America and the Life of Reason" by Horace M. Kallen, 1921
Item 38: "Old Mysticism and New Knowledge" by Horace M. Kallen, 1965
Item 39: "Secularism, God and Freedom" by Horace M. Kallen, 1965
Item 40: "Le Pragmatisme" by Gail Kennedy, 1961
Item 41: "The Relation Between Metaphysics and Religion" by Ph. Kohnstamm, undated
Item 42: "Manifold and Category" by Alexandre Koyré, 1948
Item 43: "L'hypothése et L'expérience Chez Newton" by Alexandre Koyré, 1956
Item 44: "Die Drei Fundamentalen Strukturkategorien Bei Charles S. Peirce" by Peter Krausser, 1960
Item 45: "Francesco Da Diacceto and Florentine Platonism in the Sixteenth Century" by Paul Oskar Kristeller, 1946
Item 46: "Paduan Averroism and Alexandrism in the Light of Recent Studies" by Paul Oskar Kristeller, undated
Item 47: "Axiology and Pessimism" by Cornelius Krusé, undated
Item 48: "Formalisme et Valeurs Logiques" by A. Lalande, undated
Item 49: "John Dewey and the A. H. A." by Corliss Lamont, 1960
Item 50: "The Elder Jameses and Union College" by Harold A. Larrabee, undated
Item 51: "Christian Culture and American Democracy" by Max Lerner, 1953
Item 52: "Philosophy and the Public Interest" by Wayne A. R. Leys and Charner Marquis Perry, 1959
Item 53: "The Chief Characteristics of a System of Logic Based upon Intuitivism in Epistemology and Ideal-Realism in Metaphysics" by N. O. Lossky, undated
Item 54: "Theory and Practice of National Life" by Wincenty Lutosławksi, undated

Box 8

Item 1: "Times, New and Old" by Evander Bradley McGilvary, 1928
Item 2: "Aristotle's Conception of the Development and the Nature of Scientific Method" by Richard McKeon, 1947
Item 3: "Pragmatism, Positivism, and Chauncey Wright" by Edward H. Madden, 1953
Item 4: "Humanismus und Pragmatismus" by Ernst Moritz Manasse, 1955
Item 5: "Democracy at the Crossroads" by William Pepperell Montague, undated
Item 6: "The Ethical and Aesthetic Implications of Realism" by William Pepperell Montague and H. H. Parkhurst, undated
Item 7: "Empiricism and Metaphysics in Medieval Philosophy" by Ernest A. Moody, 1958
Item 8: "A Critique of Positivism" by Arthur E. Murphy, 1937
Item 9: "In Defense of Logic Without Metaphysics" by Ernest Nagel, 1949: Two copies.
Item 10: "Mechanistic Explanation and Organismic Biology" by Ernest Nagel, 1951
Item 11: "Wholes, Sums, and Organic Unities" by Ernest Nagel, 1952
Item 12: "Probability and the Theory of Knowledge" by Ernest Nagel, 1939
Item 13: "Truth and Knowledge of the Truth" by Ernest Nagel, 1944
Item 14: "A Defense of Substance" by Everett J. Nelson, 1947
Item 15: "The Relation of Logic to Metaphysics" by Everett J. Nelson, 1949
Item 16: "The Verification Theory of Meaning" by Everett J. Nelson, 1954
Item 17: "Scientific Humanism" by M. C. Otto, 1943
Item 18: "Metaphysical Method" by Stephen C. Pepper, 1943
Item 19: "Contemporary Philosophies of Religion" by Ralph Barton Perry, 1914
Item 20: "The Place of William James in the History of Empiricism" by Ralph Barton Perry, undated
Item 21: "Religious Values" by Ralph Barton Perry, 1915 January
Item 22: "L'Origine de l'Institut International de Philosophie" by Åke Petzäll, 1955
Item 23: "Our Common Notions and their Dialectic Movements in the History of Philosophy" by Adolf Phalen, undated
Item 24: "Deux lettres de Charles S. Peirce à Lady Welby sur la phanéroscopie et la séméiologie", undated
Item 25: "Brief Articles and Notes" by Richard H. Popkin, 1957
Item 26: "Kierkegaard and Scepticism" by Richard H. Popkin, undated
Item 27: "History without Evolution" by Em. Radl, undated
Item 28: "Substance as Process" by John Herman Randall, Jr., 1957
Item 29: "Facts and Values in History" by Sidney Ratner, 1955
Item 30: "Ethical Empiricism and its Critics" by Philip Blair Rice, 1953
Item 31: "The Philosopher's Commitment" by Philip Blair Rice, 1953
Item 32: "La philosophie française en Amérique" by W. Riley, 1917
Item 33: "Le Cinquiéme Genre de L'Être dans Philébe" by Léon Robin, undated
Item 34: "Some Medico-Philosophical Excerpts from the Mellon Collection of Locke Papers" by Patrick Romanell, 1964
Item 35: "The Genesis of Mind: a Critical Prolegomena" by Nathan Rotenstreich, 1962
Item 36: "Philosophy, Religion, and the Coming World Civilization" by Leroy S. Rouner, 1966
Item 37: "The Philosophy of the General: Toynbee Versus the Naturalists" by Max Savelle, 1956 February
Item 38: "Concatenism" by William Savery, 1937
Item 39: "A Calculus for Ethics: a Theory of the Structure of Value. Part 1" by Nicholas M. Smith, Jr., 1956
Item 40: "Dewey's Theory of Value" by T. V. Smith, 1922 July
Item 41: "Husserl's and Peirce's Phenomenologies: Coincidence or Interaction" by Herbert Spiegelberg, 1954
Item 42: "The Balance of Power in Society" by Frank Tannenbaum, 1946
Item 43: "Matrix, Matter, and Method in Metaphysics" by Henry Veatch, 1961
Item 44: "John Dewey and the Revival of Greek Philosophy" by Walter B. Veazie, 1961
Item 45: "Realism, Dialectic, and the Transcendent" by Jean Wahl, 1944
Item 46: "Philosophische Anthropologie, Metapolitik und Politische Bildung" by Hermann Weinn, undated
Item 47: "Die Sprache in Philosophie und Dichtung" by Hermann Wein, 1965
Item 48: "Trends in Philosophical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology in Postwar Germany" by Hermann Wein, 1957
Item 49: "Adventurous Humility" by Paul Weiss, 1941
Item 50: "Oxford Philosophy" by Morris Weitz, 1953
Item 51: "Semantics and Ontology" by Philip Wheelwright, 1960
Item 52: "Religion in John Dewey's Philosophy" by Henry Nelson Wieman, 1931 January
Item 53: "The American Association of University Professors: How to maintain Standards without Excessive Standardization" by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, 1924
Item 54: "The Deception of the Senses" by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, 1913
Item 55: "The Discovery of the Mind" by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, 1912 December
Item 56: "Herbert Gardiner Lord, 1849-1930" by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, 1930
Item 57: "Metaphysics" by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, 1908
Item 58: "The Nature of Consciousness" by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, 1905
Item 59: "The Nature of Man" by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, 1931
Item 60: "The Problem of Consciousness" Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, 1906
Item 61: "Report of the Dean of the Faculties of Political Science, Philosophy and Pure Science" by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, 1929
Item 62: "Seventy-five Years of Alpha Delta Phi in Amherst College" by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, 1912
Item 63: "The Social Environment of the Graduate Student" by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, 1920
Item 64: "Biographical Memoir of Margaret Floy Washburn, 1871-1939" by Robert S. Woodworth, 1948
Item 65: "Studies in Personality" by Robert S. Woodworth, 1942