Braithwaite, Richard Bevan, 1900 - 1990 (philosopher)
Dates and places
1900-1990 KC 1919. Fellow 1924-1990
Sphere of activity
Admitted to King's College, Cambridge in 1919. BA, 1923, M.A. 1926. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 1924-90. Appointed Cambridge University Lecturer in Moral Sciences in 1928.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Braithwaite: The Papers of Richard Bevan Braithwaite
The collection includes manuscripts and typescripts of notes and lectures, an album of cuttings of early published articles, typescript pieces, and some letters received from journal editors.
'Can automatic calculating machines be said to think?', 1952
The file comprises two copies of an undated typescript of a broadcast discussion transmitted on BBC Third Programme, 14 and 23 Jan. 1952, between M. H. A. Newman, AMT, Sir Geoffrey Jefferson and R. B. Braithwaite. One script has a manuscript note by Mrs Turing, 'This script is sent with the consent of the BBC', and the other has a manuscript note, 'Please return to R.O. Gandy'.
Correspondence between J.M. Keynes and Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1913 - 1939
'Four early twentieth-century philosophers', 2004
This is a typescript preprint of an entry written for the 'Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers' (Theommes Press, Bristol, 2005) for JMK.
Letter from Richard Bevan Braithwaite to JTS, 1921-10-20
1 autograph letter signed.
Letters from Frank Plumpton Ramsey and an item concerning his death, 1923 - 1930
14 autograph letters, signed.
This file also includes 1 autograph postcard, signed from Richard Braithwaite announcing the death of Frank Plumpton Ramsey. [p.m. 10 Jan. 1930]
Letters from Richard Braithwaite to J.M. Keynes, 1921 - 1928
5 autograph letters, signed.
Letters from Virginia Woolf, 1929-10-29 - 1932-01-29
3 autograph letters signed from Woolf to RBB, with envelopes.
Letters to RNL from Richard Braithwaite, 1930-11-15 - 1932-10-23
2 autograph letters signed.
Memorial/funeral file, 1990
Richard Braithwaite. Includes order of service.
Obituaries, 1946
This file comprises typescripts by R.B. Braithwaite, H.G. Durnford and John Anderson and one page from 'Die Gegenwart', unsigned.
'The nature of believing', 1933
This sub-series comprises off-prints and reprints of articles on economic subjects. The journals in which the originals appeared have not been noted.
Vice-Provost's photographs of Fellows and members of high table, 1950 - 1989
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