{"id":187,"date":"2012-09-20T10:48:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/miller\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2012-10-01T09:16:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T13:16:52","slug":"paradox","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/miller\/writings-and-publications\/sources\/paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paradox of Cause and Other Essays<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Publication information: The Paradox of Cause and Other Essays <\/em> (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978). The editorial ‘dead matter’ for the book is contained in Box 40 of the Miller Papers. All chapter titles were either originally given or approved by Professor Miller.<\/p>\n

Below are the contents of the book. To go directly to a chapter, click on the numbered link.<\/p>\n

Return to main page of Sources<\/a>
\nAppendix on editorial marks<\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 1<\/a> 2<\/a> 3<\/a> 4<\/a> 5<\/a> 6<\/a> 7<\/a> 8<\/a> 9<\/a> 10<\/a> 11<\/a> 12<\/a> 13<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\nChapter 1.\u00a0 The Paradox of Cause.
\nEditorial Mark: None.
\nDocument Type: Essay.
\nPages: 11-18.
\nDate: 1935.
\nBox & Folder: MP 1:2, MP 1:5, and EAH 4.
\nRemarks: Originally published in The Journal of Philosophy <\/em> 32(7) (1935): 169-75.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Chapter 2.\u00a0 Utopia and the State.
\nEditorial Mark: None.
\nDocument Type: Essay.
\nPages: 19-41.
\nDate: 1934.
\nBox & Folder: MP 1:2, MP 1:11, and EAH 4:1.
\nRemarks: Perhaps the text of a \u2018Wednesday Lecture’ which faculty at Williams College gave from time to time.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Chapter 3.\u00a0 Accidents Will Happen.
\nEditorial Mark: None.
\nDocument Type: Essay.
\nPages: 42-55.
\nDate: 1937.
\nBox & Folder: MP 1:6 and EAH 4.
\nRemarks: The essay originally appeared in The Journal of Philosophy <\/em> 34(5) (1937): 121-31.\u00a0 The footnote on page 53 was added from an unidentified source.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Chapter 4.\u00a0 On the Problem of Knowledge.
\nEditorial Mark: None.
\nDocument Type: Letter to former student Mr. Edward A. Hoyt.
\nPages: 56-63.
\nDate: 29 December 1946.
\nBox & Folder: EAH 1.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Chapter 5.\u00a0 Idealism and Freedom.
\nEditorial Mark: None.
\nDocument Type: Essay.
\nPages: 64-74.
\nDate: March 1943.
\nBox & Folder: MP 1:11.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Chapter 6.\u00a0 History and Humanism.
\nEditorial Mark: None.
\nDocument Type: Presented paper.
\nPages: 75-96.
\nDate: 11 March 1948.
\nBox & Folder: MP 1:2, MP 2:6.
\nRemarks: Presented before the Harvard Philosophy Club on the above date.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Chapter 7.\u00a0 Freedom as a Characteristic of Man in a Democratic Society.
\nEditorial Mark: None.
\nDocument Type: Presented paper.
\nPages: 97-105.
\nDate: 28 December 1948.
\nBox & Folder: MP 1:2 and MP 1:7.
\nRemarks: Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Political Science Association which took place in Chicago on the above date.\u00a0 The typescript indicates that the question to be addressed by every speaker was, \u201cWhat are the significant characteristics of human nature assumed by democracy?\u201d.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Chapter 8.\u00a0 The Midworld.
\nEditorial Mark: None.
\nDocument Type: Presented paper.
\nPages: 106-23.
\nDate: 30 April 1952.
\nBox & Folder: MP 1:2, MP 2:1, and EAH 4:2.
\nRemarks: Presented to the Harvard Philosophy Club on the above date.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Chapter 9.\u00a0 Functioning Objects, Facts, and Artifacts.
\nEditorial Mark: None.
\nDocument Type: Letter to former student Mr. George P. Brockway.
\nPages: 124-29.
\nDate: 16 November 1977.
\nBox & Folder: MP 31:5.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Chapter 10.\u00a0 The Ahistoric Ideal.
\nEditorial Mark: None.
\nDocument Type: Essay.
\nPages: 130-60.
\nDate: 1959.
\nBox & Folder: MP 1:9 and EAH 4:2.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Chapter 11.\u00a0 What Does Art Do?
\nEditorial Mark: None.
\nDocument Type: Letter to former student Mr. Edward A. Hoyt.
\nPages: 161-68.
\nDate: 18 May 1949.
\nBox & Folder: EAH 4:1.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Chapter 12.\u00a0 A Meditation on a Painting.
\nEditorial Mark: None.
\nDocument Type: Essay.
\nPages: 169-73.
\nDate: 28 March 1947.
\nBox & Folder:\u00a0 MP 20:3.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Chapter 13.\u00a0 The Scholar as a Man of the World.
\nEditorial Mark: None.
\nDocument Type: Presented paper.
\nPages: 174-92.
\nDate: 26 May 1952.
\nBox & Folder: MP 1:2, MP 2:3, and EAH 4:2.
\nRemarks: Presented to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Hobart College, on the date above, on the day of the college’s commencement exercises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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