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A Life of Thinking the Andersonian Tradition in Australian Philosophy a Chronological Bibliography own. One of these, of the University Archive collections of Anderson material (2006) owes to the unstinting co-operation of of Archives staff: Julia Mant, Nyree Morrison, Tim Robinson and Anne Picot. I have further added material from other sources: bibliographical A Life of Thinking notes (most especially, James Franklin’s 2003 Corrupting the The Andersonian Tradition in Australian Philosophy Youth), internet searches, and compilations of Andersonian material such as may be found in Heraclitus, the pre-Heraclitus a chronological bibliography Libertarian Broadsheet, the post-Heraclitus Sydney Realist, and Mark Weblin’s JA and The Northern Line. The attempt to chronologically line up Anderson’s own work against the work of James Packer others showing some greater or lesser interest in it, seems to me a necessary move to contextualise not only Anderson himself, but Australian philosophy and politics in the twentieth century and beyond—and perhaps, more broadly still, a realist tradition that Australia now exports to the world. Introductory Note What are the origins and substance of this “realist tradition”? Perhaps the best summary of it is to be found in Anderson’s own The first comprehensive Anderson bibliography was the one reading, currently represented in the books in Anderson’s library constructed for Studies in Empirical Philosophy (1962). It listed as bequeathed to the University of Sydney. I supply an edited but Anderson’s published philsophical work and a fair representation unabridged version of the list of these books that appears on the of his published social criticism. In 1984 Geraldine Suter published John Anderson SETIS website, to follow the bibliography proper. a “Bibliographic Study on the Philosophy of John Anderson” which While I have aimed the bibliography to be as full as possible, made two significant additions to the SEP bibliography: Anderson’s correspondence is generally accounted in the most comprehensive compilations of works about Anderson and his general terms, concentrating on Anderson’s role in the various philosophy, and of collections of unpublished material to be controversies. Examples of the various dated notes in the John found at the time both in the University of Sydney Archives and in Anderson Papers have only been mentioned where they refer to the possession of Brian Birchall. Since then, Mark Weblin has an identifiable address (per Mark Weblin) or published article. produced a “John Anderson Bibliography” (2011) that does significant work in tracing the totality of Anderson’s activity at the J.G.P. University of Sydney from the personal records of John Anderson April 2012 and family, which were bequeathed in full to the University in 1995 and are housed at the University of Sydney Archives. The bibliography as represented here attempts to incorporate all of these sources, adding material derived from indexes of my Compilations LPT2007 Lectures on Political Theory 1941-45, by John Anderson, ed. Creagh McLean Cole. Sydney: Sydney EP Education and Politics 1931 , by John Anderson. Sydney: University Press, 2007. Angus & Robertson, 1931. LMP2008 Lectures on Modern Philosophy 1932-35: Hume, Reid, SEP1962 Studies in Empirical Philosophy, by John Anderson. James, by John Anderson; ed. Creagh McLean Cole. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1962. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2008. DAE Dialectic 1977 vol 14, 1977. “Anderson on Education”. LGP2008 Lectures on Greek Philosophy 1928, by John Anderson. Edited by Brian Birchall and Norelle Evans. Introduction by Graham Cullum, eds. Graham Cullum and EI1980 Education and Inquiry: John Anderson on Education. Creagh McLean Cole. Sydney: Sydney University Press, Oxford: Blackwell, 1980. Edited by D.Z. Phillips. 2008. AR1982 Art and Reality: John Anderson on Literature and Anthologies Aesthetics. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982. Edited by Australian Highway Janet Anderson, Graham Cullum and Limon Lycos. “Anderson and Andersonianism Special Issue” September 1958. H1980f. Heraclitus, September 1980-July 2004, issues 1-116. Q1977. Quadrant, July 1977 [publication of addresses given at JA: A Journal Dedicated to Professor John Anderson, his Family the John Anderson 50 year Commemoration and Associates, ed.and comp. Mark Weblin. April 2003- Conference]. November 2005. DAP1987. Dialectic vol. 30 1987 ed. Leila Cumming (reprinted The Northern Line: An On-line Journal Dedicated to the Life and 1993). Special Issue “Andersonian Papers”. Work of John Anderson, ed. and comp. Mark Weblin. The Australian Journal of Anthropology Special Issue 3: “John December 2006- Anderson and Social Inquiry” 1992 3:1&2. Guest editors: Kenneth Maddock and Steven Thiele. FC2001 Freethought and Censorship: Professor John Anderson’s Addresses on Freethought and Censorship 1927-1931 [49 SEP Bibliographical Note. pp. incl. index] no compiler stated; nd. [?2001]. The journals referred to more than once are given their full title PFL2003 A Perilous and Fighting Life: From Communist to on their first appearance, with the exception of the Australasian Conservative: The Political Writings of Professor John Journal of Psychology and Philosophy. This is referred to as AJPP Anderson, ed. Mark Weblin. Melbourne: Pluto Press, for all numbers up to the end of 1946; for later numbers the 2003. abbreviation is AJP (the name of the journal having been changed in1947 to the Australasian Journal of Philosophy). STC2007 Space, Time and the Categories: Lectures on Metaphysics 1949-50, by John Anderson. Introduction by Sydney University Archives David Armstrong; ed. Creagh Cole. Sydney: Sydney Where no Collection Number is stated, the reference is always University Press, 2007. to SUA P42, the personal archive of John Anderson and Family. By Anderson Relative to Anderson 1915-1919 Glasgow, 1915-1918 “Sociological Tales.” (as “Jude”, Glasgow University Magazine vol. 27:4, Jan 27 SUA P42 Series 9. 13 Photographic Prints of John Anderson, 1900-1925. 1915). [H1993, 30, Mar 1993] “Two Biological Theories. .” (as “Jude”, Glasgow University Magazine vol. 27:5 February 17 1915). [H1993, 31 Mar 1993] “More Light.” (as “Jude”, Glasgow University Magazine vol. 27:7, March 17 1915). [H1993, 31, May 1993] “Thanksgiving.” (as “Jude”, Glasgow University Magazine vol. 27 1914-1915). [H1992, 28, Sept 1992] Anderson student Essays: “Was the Question which Thales Asked Ever Answered? If SUA Series 23 (July 1916 to June 1922) Correspondence: Jenny Baillie to JA. so, How?” [n.d.]; “The Substance-Attribute Conception in Spinoza” [n.d.]; “Are Relations Qualities?” (23 November 1916 SUA Series 1 Item 6); “The Presuppositions of Pluralism” (26 February 1917 SUA Series 1 Item 8); “The Order of the Categories” [n.d.] All JA [unreleased: 2004]. “A Disquisition.” (as “Jude”, Glasgow University Magazine vol. 28. 1916-1917). [H1992, 28 Sept 1992] “Russia as I saw it.” (as “Stayat Home”, Glasgow University Magazine vol. 28 1916- 1917) [JA2004, 10, February 2004] “The World to Come.” (as “Jude”, Glasgow University Magazine vol. 28 1916-1917) [JA2004, 10, February 2004] “Tales for Men Only.” (as “Jude”, Glasgow University Magazine vol. 28 1916-1917) [JA2004, 10, February 2004] “The Evolution of a Literary Artist.” (as “Jude”, Glasgow University Magazine vol. 28 1916-1917) [JA2004, 10, February 2004] SUA Series 18 (October 1916 to June 1922) Correspondence: JA to Jenny Baillie. Editorial [pp. 92-3.] (Glasgow University Magazine vol. 28 1916-1917) [JA2004, 10, February 2004] “The State as a Moral Agent” (1916-1917). [original in Glasgow University Archives; copy in Sydney University Archives] [Awarded Glasgow University Silver Medal for an essay in Political Science] SUA Series 19 Correspondence: Members of JA’s own family in Scotland and New By Anderson Relative to Anderson Zealand (to William Anderson: 1917-1929; others: to 1952) Student essays “Is Immediate Experience Genuine Inference?” 25/1/1917 (12 pp) [SUA Series 1 Item 7]; “Kant’s examination of the arguments for the Existence of God, and his own Ethical Argument” 6/2/1917 (14 pp); “The Relation of Socrates to the Pre-Socratics and the Sophists” 8/5/1917 (29 pp). SUA Series 1 Item 5. Letters to JA from Samuel Alexander: 28/3/17 [typed, on JA’s “Space-Time and Consciousness” 18 May 1917 [SUA Series 1 Item 10] [The Northern criticisms of “transitiveness” etc.] 1 p.; 6/11/17, on series [1p.]. Line No 4 July 2007] SUA Series 1 Item 12. Draft letter to Alexander 25/5/1917 [2 pp.] [The Northern Line No 4 July 2007] “The Philosophical Doctrines of William James.” Glasgow University MA Thesis, August 1917. [original handwritten and later n.d. typed copy, John Anderson Papers SUA; SETIS] [“Error and the False Proposition: Excerpts from MA Thesis The Philosophical Doctrines of William James (1918 [sic])”. H1999, 72, March 1999] The Philosophical Doctrines of William James Editorial [p. 188.] (Glasgow University Magazine vol. 29 1917-1918) [JA2004, 10, February 2004] SUA Series 34 Box 79 /15. JA University of Glasgow degree. MA 1st Class November 1917. “Blind to the World.” (as “Jude”, Glasgow University Magazine vol. 29. 1917-1918). [H1992, 28 Sept 1992] “Ghosts.” (as “Jude”, Glasgow University Magazine vol. 29. 1917-1918) [JA2004, 10, February 2004] “Two Houses.” (as “Jude”, Glasgow University Magazine vol. 29. 1917-1918) [JA2004, 10, February 2004] “On the Decay of Institutions.”Glasgow University Magazine vol. 29 1917-1918 p. 93. “Oatmeal.” (as “Jude”, Glasgow University Magazine vol. 29 1917-1918 pp. 137-8). [JA2004, 10, February 2004] “The Cult of Immaturity.” (as “Jude”, Glasgow University
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