Publication information: The Paradox of Cause and Other Essays (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.
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Appendix on editorial marks
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Chapter 1. The Paradox of Cause.
Editorial Mark: None.
Document Type: Essay.
Pages: 11-18.
Date: 1935.
Box & Folder: MP 1:2, MP 1:5, and EAH 4.
Remarks: Originally published in The Journal of Philosophy 32(7) (1935): 169-75.
Chapter 2. Utopia and the State.
Editorial Mark: None.
Document Type: Essay.
Pages: 19-41.
Date: 1934.
Box & Folder: MP 1:2, MP 1:11, and EAH 4:1.
Remarks: Perhaps the text of a ‘Wednesday Lecture’ which faculty at Williams College gave from time to time.
Chapter 3. Accidents Will Happen.
Editorial Mark: None.
Document Type: Essay.
Pages: 42-55.
Date: 1937.
Box & Folder: MP 1:6 and EAH 4.
Remarks: The essay originally appeared in The Journal of Philosophy 34(5) (1937): 121-31. The footnote on page 53 was added from an unidentified source.
Chapter 4. On the Problem of Knowledge.
Editorial Mark: None.
Document Type: Letter to former student Mr. Edward A. Hoyt.
Pages: 56-63.
Date: 29 December 1946.
Box & Folder: EAH 1.
Chapter 5. Idealism and Freedom.
Editorial Mark: None.
Document Type: Essay.
Pages: 64-74.
Date: March 1943.
Box & Folder: MP 1:11.
Chapter 6. History and Humanism.
Editorial Mark: None.
Document Type: Presented paper.
Pages: 75-96.
Date: 11 March 1948.
Box & Folder: MP 1:2, MP 2:6.
Remarks: Presented before the Harvard Philosophy Club on the above date.
Chapter 7. Freedom as a Characteristic of Man in a Democratic Society.
Editorial Mark: None.
Document Type: Presented paper.
Pages: 97-105.
Date: 28 December 1948.
Box & Folder: MP 1:2 and MP 1:7.
Remarks: Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Political Science Association which took place in Chicago on the above date. The typescript indicates that the question to be addressed by every speaker was, “What are the significant characteristics of human nature assumed by democracy?”.
Chapter 8. The Midworld.
Editorial Mark: None.
Document Type: Presented paper.
Pages: 106-23.
Date: 30 April 1952.
Box & Folder: MP 1:2, MP 2:1, and EAH 4:2.
Remarks: Presented to the Harvard Philosophy Club on the above date.
Chapter 9. Functioning Objects, Facts, and Artifacts.
Editorial Mark: None.
Document Type: Letter to former student Mr. George P. Brockway.
Pages: 124-29.
Date: 16 November 1977.
Box & Folder: MP 31:5.
Chapter 10. The Ahistoric Ideal.
Editorial Mark: None.
Document Type: Essay.
Pages: 130-60.
Date: 1959.
Box & Folder: MP 1:9 and EAH 4:2.
Chapter 11. What Does Art Do?
Editorial Mark: None.
Document Type: Letter to former student Mr. Edward A. Hoyt.
Pages: 161-68.
Date: 18 May 1949.
Box & Folder: EAH 4:1.
Chapter 12. A Meditation on a Painting.
Editorial Mark: None.
Document Type: Essay.
Pages: 169-73.
Date: 28 March 1947.
Box & Folder: MP 20:3.
Chapter 13. The Scholar as a Man of the World.
Editorial Mark: None.
Document Type: Presented paper.
Pages: 174-92.
Date: 26 May 1952.
Box & Folder: MP 1:2, MP 2:3, and EAH 4:2.
Remarks: Presented to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Hobart College, on the date above, on the day of the college’s commencement exercises.
