[Robert M. Young, historian of science] Typescript of Problems of Transcendence, thesis submitted for B.A. Degree (Yale)

Author: 
Robert M. Young [Robert Maxwell Young (1935 – 2019), American-born historian of science specialising in the 19th century and particularly Darwinian thought].
Publication details: 
Presented to the Committee on the Scholars of the House Program in Candidacy for the B.A. Degree in Yale College 1957.~Typescript, 159pp., 4to, in binder, good+ condition. Opening explanation of the subject: A disparity exists between the process of self-reflection as we experience it and certain attempts at explaining this process. This study is an attempt at exploring this disparity and perhaps eliminating some of the difficulties that stand in the way of an adequate explanation of self-reflection [...] Concluding Bibliography ranges from Saint Anselm and Colin Wilson via Descartes, Plato, Whitehead and others. WITH enclosed: Typed Letter Signed Bob to Barbara, a girlfriend who he expects to marry, two pages, 4to, 19 Jan. 1957 AND passport-sized photo of the young Robert Young. Note: Yale University have the other copy of this thesis, of course.~500~AUTOGRAPH TYPESCRIPT BIOLOGY CHARLES DARWIN DARWINISM~ ~0~4 shelves below Burke's~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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