Winthrop Pickard Bell: Digital Archives at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany and Mount Allison University, Canada

This project consists of archival work on the lecture notes taken by Winthrop Pickard Bell at Universität Göttingen in the beginning of the twentieth-century. Bell was a Canadian philosopher who taught at Harvard University in the 1920’s after completing his doctorate with Edmund Husserl, a prominent German philosopher, at Universität Göttingen. Bell took meticulous notes from lectures given by Husserl as well as by other philosophers at the university. For this project, I will pick a set of lecture notes to work on and begin to transform them into something of substantial academic merit. I will be involved in digitization, adding meta-data, adding scholarly commentary, pinpointing references from Bell’s original notes and, because of my background knowledge of German, translating. One set of lecture notes to be worked on is particularly important: a seminar taught by Husserl on the logic of Lotze, another German philosopher. In an upcoming edition of “Husserl Studies,” a journal concerned with the work of Husserl, a summary of the Lotze seminar will be published. Because of this, there will be great scholarly interest in having the seminar published in full. I hope to have made a significant contribution to this end. TBC

Faculty Supervisor:

David Mawhinney;Jason Bell

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Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Discipline:

Sociology

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Education

University:

Mount Allison University

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