Peter H. Hess
Introduction
Fonds:
#31
Title:
Peter H. Hess fonds
Dates of Material:
[198–?]–[ca. 1988]
Extent:
5 cm of textual records
Biographical sketch
Peter H. Hess was born in 1934. He received a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario in 1965, and M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees from Brown University. He began teaching at Victoria University in Toronto in 1969 as a Lecturer in Philosophy. From 1970 to 1978 he was an Assistant Professor, and from 1978 to 1996 an Associate Professor. During his academic career he published Thought and experience (c1988) as well as articles in various philosophical journals.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of reports made for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities Aid to Publications Programme re Hess’s manuscript “Thought and Experience” and letter from Hess in response, 1986; manuscript of “Thought and Experience”, [ca. 1988]; and paper titled “Why Reasons Can’t Be Causes”, [198–?]
Note(s)
Source of supplied title
Title based on contents of the fonds.
Immediate source of acquisition
Acquired from Peter H. Hess in 1989
Access conditions
No restrictions
Finding aids
Box/file list available
Accruals
No further accruals are expected
General
Thought and experience (BD 161.H48 1988) is available in the Victoria University Library
Access Points
Provenance access point
Hess, Peter H. (Peter Hans), 1934–
Subjects
Knowledge, Theory of
Thought and thinking
Consciousness