Notebooks

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 ACE/1
  • Dates of Creation
      c.1918-1973
  • Physical Description
      68 items some of the notebooks are in poor condition, with missing covers and pages, and with evidence of water damage, in a few cases

Scope and Content

Ewing's notebooks. These include his notes on philosophers and their works, together with drafts for essays, lectures and books:

  • /1 Notebook c.1918-20s. Includes notes on Leibniz, and Aristotle’s metaphysics;
  • /2 Notebook c.1918-20. Includes notes on Hume and Plato;
  • /3 Notebook [in poor condition] c1918-20s. Includes notes on Greek philosophy, Plato etc.;
  • /4 Notebook [in poor condition] c1918-20. Includes notes on Aristotle’s Ethics, Lötze, Descartes, Sidgwick;
  • /5 Notebook [in poor condition] 1920s. Includes notes of social and industrial psychology;
  • /6 Notebook [in poor condition] 1920s-1930s. Includes notes on Philosophy, not identified;
  • /7 Notebook [in poor condition] c1928. Includes notes of 3rd year Logic lectures (University College, Swansea);
  • /8 Notebook [1923/4] Includes notes on Bosanquet, Croce, Bradley, Moore, Lötze;
  • /9 Notebook c. 1928-1929. W.E.A. Psychology classes (South Wales);
  • /10 Notebook 1920s-1930s. Includes notes on British moralists, Bentham, F.H.Bradley, G. E. Moore, Hegel. [May have been collected for ‘Morality of Punishment’, 1929];
  • /11 Notebook [in poor condition] 1930s, draft lectures/lectures notes (Cambridge);
  • /12 Notebook c.1930s. Includes notes on Husserl, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Wisdom ;
  • /13 Notebook c.1930s. Includes notes on Broadlee, Bosanquet, etc.;
  • /14 Notebook c.1930s. Includes notes on philosophy [probably whilst at Cambridge] including ‘Moore’s lectures’;
  • /15 Notebook [in poor condition] 1930s. Includes notes predominantly on the philosophy of self;
  • /16 Notebook [in poor condition] 1930s, 1970s. Includes notes on Kurt Baier and John Rawls;
  • /17 Notebook [in poor condition] 1930s-1960s. Includes notes on Psychology, ‘The unconscious’, and philosophical subjects;
  • /18 Notebook n.d. [1930s – 1960s];
  • /19 Notebook 1940s, mainly on ethics;
  • /20Notebook n.d. Includes notes on miscellaneous philosophical subjects, including notes made at North Western University, Illinois, 1949;
  • /21 Notebook c.1950s, includes notes on Kant;
  • /22 Notebook c.1950s?. Notes on logic, ethics and sense data;
  • /23 Notebook [in poor condition] n.d.[c1950s-1960s];
  • /24 Notebook [in poor condition] n.d.[c1950s-1960s];
  • /25 Notebook n.d. [1950-1968];
  • /26 Notebook c.1950s-1960s. Includes notes on philosophical subjects;
  • /27 Notebook c.1950s-1960s. Philosophy notes, including Peter Geach and Gibert Ryle;
  • /28 Notebook c.1950s-1960s. Drafts for Value and Reality;
  • /29 Notebook c.1950s-1960s. Includes notes on Brand Blanshard, Ernest Gellner, A.J.Ayer, and Peter Strawson, and otherphilosophers;
  • /30 Notebook c.1960s. Notes on miscellaneous philosophical subjects;
  • /31 Notepad [1960s] Draft of essay/article on empiricism;
  • /32 Notebook 1960s. Notes might refer to 'Elements of Philosophy'[?];
  • /33 Notebook n.d. [1960s]. Includes notes on 'Freedom v. Responsibility';
  • /34 Notebook n.d. [1960s]. Includes notes on Richard Wollheim’s F H Bradley;
  • /35 Notebook n.d. [1960s]. Draft chapters including “Coherence”, "Reality";
  • /36 Notebook [in poor condition] n.d. [1960s-70s] Notes mainly on ethics;
  • /37 Notebook 1960s-1970s, containing personal accounts, book lists and address book;
  • /38 Notebook 1971.University of Delaware Notes, including seminar on Kant;
  • /39 Notebook 1969-1973, includes notes for Value and Reality;
  • /40 Notebook n.d. Includes notes mainly on Bosanquet and Collingwood's aesthetics;
  • /41 Notebook n.d. Includes notes on philosophical subjects;
  • /42 Notebook [in poor condition] n.d. Includes notes on Bergson; logic; inference, infinite series etc.;
  • /43 Notebook n.d. Plan of a book, or drafts, on metaphysics;
  • /44 Notebook n.d. Includes notes primarily on Spinoza and Kant;
  • /45 Notebook n.d. Includes notes on Kant, Schiller and C.D. Broad;
  • /46 Notebook n.d. Includes notes on Plato and Aristotle;
  • /47 Notebook n.d. Includes notes on psychology, psychoanalysis, causation;
  • /48 Notebook n.d. Includes notes on Croce, Brentano and F.Carritt;
  • /49 Notebook n.d. Includes notes on philosophy of religion;
  • /50 Notebook n.d. Notes on miscellaneous philosophical subjects;
  • /51 Notebook [in poor condition] n.d. Includes notes on Hume and Locke;
  • /52 Notebook [in poor condition] n.d Includes notes on ethics, evil and the existence of God;
  • /53 Notebook n.d. Notes including plan for ‘Notes for discussion on physical objects’;
  • /54 Notebook n.d. [no cover] Includes notes on J.L. Austin, Brand Blanshard;
  • /55 Notebook n.d. [in poor condition] Notes on German philosophy (in German);
  • /56 Notebook [in poor condition, without covers] n.d. Includes miscellaneous philosophical notes;
  • /57 Notebook n.d. Draft chapter of book;
  • /58 Notebook n.d. Notes including metaphysics and ethics; also includes an extensive reading list;
  • /59 Notebook n.d. mainly relates to ethics;
  • /60 Notebook n.d. mainly relates to Idealism;
  • /61 Notebook (poor condition), 1950s-1970s, miscellaneous philosophical subjects;
  • /62 Notebook. n.d., [1920s-1930s], notes mainly on Idealism, including Mactaggart, Bradley, Collingwood, Lindsay;
  • /63 Notebook containing a travel journal of visits to USA in 1961;
  • /64 Notebook containing Ewing's travel journal of visits to Europe, America and India;
  • /65 Notebook (very poor condition) in form a diary of a trip to India in 1959;
  • /66-68 Loose notes re. visit to U.S.A., impressions of Cornell and Princeton, Wisconsin, Canada (1949), India, and Israel (1965).