Hanard Univ Rabbeins Lib rang, EminionHell Harvard Philosophy Department: Department Resources Page 1 of 2 Department of Philosophy, Harvard University 208 Emerson Hall, Cambridge MA 02138 USA 617-495-2191 GENERAL COURSES UNDERGRADS GRADUATES MEMBERS COLLOQUIA LINKS GENERAL: CONTACTS RESOURCES Department Resources The Department's rooms are all in Emerson Hall, scattered among the classrooms on the first three floors. There is also a row of tiny offices in the basement belonging to some of the teaching fellows. The Bechtel Room (Emerson 107) is the faculty's lounge and meeting room. Its walls are hung with portraits of philosophers from Harvard's past. (Photos of some of these are displayed on the faculty page.) It is our grandest room and is where receptions are held after talks. Located on the second floor are Robbins Library (Emerson 211), the main Department Office (Emerson 208), several other faculty offices, and a photocopying room (Emerson 203), the machine in which may be used for small jobs. (This machine accepts Crimson Cards.) The Department Office is staffed by Ms. Ghanda DiFiglia (at the left-hand desk in the office) and by Ms. Veronica Fullard (at the right-hand desk). Course readings and handouts are distributed here. Located on the third floor are the Tanner Room (Emerson 310), in which most departmental seminars are held, a computer room (Emerson 312), the Graduate Lounge (Emerson 311), and more faculty offices. Also on the third floor is the Tutorial (or Undergraduate) Office, which is in Emerson 303. The Tutorial Office is staffed by Ms. Nanette de Maine. The office of Professor Warren Goldfarb, the current Head Tutor, is Emerson 301. Important notices for undergraduates are posted outside the Tutorial Office. Robbins Library Robbins Library is our small philosophy library on the second floor of Emerson Hall. It is a non-circulating library. You will find reserve readings for courses in Robbins. The department librarian is Jason Pannone, MA, MSLIS. His hours are Tuesdays, 8:30 AM to 12 PM, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11 AM to 6 PM, and by appointment. Jason offers help in providing course materials, reference, research, bibliographic instruction, collection development, and other information- related needs. Please contact Jason at (617) 495-2194 or at pannone@fas.harvard.edu to learn more about what he and the library can offer to you. The Library's hours are 12 PM to 10 PM Mondays through Thursdays, and 12 PM to 5 PM on Fridays. (However, at the beginning of term, hours are somewhat less predictable, since staffing schedules have to be re-adjusted to accommodate the new course schedules of library employees.) The Library is closed on weekends and during school vacations. The Library has the following collections: The Lewis Room, on the left as you enter, houses periodicals. The Library currently subscribes to over http://philosophy.fas.harvard.edu/resources.php 5/25/2005 Harvard Philosophy Department: Department Resources Page 2 of 2 fifty journals, covering ethics, logic, the history of philosophy, the philosophy of science, and other topics. Please contact Jason Pannone for a complete list of periodical holdings. In the central section, behind the information desk, are shelves with reserve books and articles for courses. To their right is the reference section, which contains the Philosopher's Index, foreign language dictionaries, and several philosophy encyclopedias. The remainder of our general collection occupies the rest of the room. The collection emphasizes the history of philosophy (both primary and secondary texts); American philosophy; early Modern philosophy; Kant; Aesthetics; Epistemology; Ethics; Logic; Mathematics; Ontology; Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy of Science; Political Philosophy; and Psychology. You can find what resources are in Robbins's collection by searching the University's On-Line Catalog, HOLLIS. Site developed using Bluefish. Best viewed using Mozilla or Firefox. This website runs on a LAMP: Fedora GNU/Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Please let us know if you have any comments or problems with the site. File resources.php last modified 27 February 2004. W3C W3C CSS http://philosophy.fas.harvard.edu/resources.php 5/25/2005 Epp, Ronald From: Jason A. Pannone [pannone@fas.harvard.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 4:14 PM To: Epp, Ronald Subject: Re: Emerson Hall Centenary - update Dear Ron, How are you? I hope that you had a pleasant holiday weekend. I am writing to you with a brief update. I have had a chance to go through some of the older materials that were left here in the library, but I have not been able to uncover anything along the lines of what you are looking for. The materials from Edwin D.T. Bechtel, which I thought might contain some information, turn out to be not very useful. There are some old news clippings and reviews of books about Santayana, James, and Palmer, in several scrapbooks that he kept, but most of them are written in the period of 1940-1960, and don't shed much light on the goings-or in the department in the time frame that you are looking for. The two diaries of his from that time are, respectively, an account book for Bechtel's senior year at Harvard, and a diary of his Grand Tour in 1904-1905. However, there might be something of value in all of these materials that I may be missing, so you are welcome to come and look at them, if you would like, when you are next in Cambridge. We do not have any materials by, about, or from Mr. Dorr in Robbins itself, from what I can find in our catalog. I am also going to check and see if there is anything in the department office that may be of use. I will let you know what I uncover from that search. There has been no word from the chair in regards to any centenary celebrations, so I am guessing that the answer to this is negative. Please let me know if you have any more questions. Best, Jason Epp, Ronald wrote: >Dear Jason, > >Thank you for responding SO quickly and with such a willingness to be >helpful--by the way, please call me "Ron. I would appreciate your >making inquiries about any plans for a celebration though I suspect >that this may not transpire. However, if you could "look a little >deeper into what records may be here" within the next two months I >would be most appreciative. I'm planning a couple of trips to the >Archives this summer and perhaps I could drop by and treat you to >lunch. > >One issue that remains unclear to me is that there apparently was some >coordinated effort to open Emerson Hall in late December 1905 and to >celebrate this new facility by hosting the American Philosophical >Association annual meeting (long before it became segmented into >Eastern, pacific, etc.) Any documentation that you could uncover >relative to the philosophy/psychology department from 1901-1906 would >be appreciated, especially any references to the interaction between 1 Epp, Ronald From: Jason A. Pannone [pannone@fas.harvard.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:43 AM To: Epp, Ronald Subject: Re: Emerson Hall Centenary Dear Professor Epp: Thank you for your inquiry! As of this moment, I do not know of any centenary celebrations that are being planned. I will be happy to inquire, though, and see if there are any plans in the works. As for Mr. Dorr's involvement in building Emerson Hall, I will have to look a little deeper into what records may be here. Unfortunately, prior to my arrival two years ago, there was no professional librarian managing Robbins Library, so records and materials were not well-kept or maintained. My initial guess is that the majority of the information would be over at the Archives, which you've indicated that you've looked at already. However, I will be happy to take a look for you and see what else may be tucked away here, in Robbins, and to let you know. Do you have a specific deadline? I can start as soon as you need me to do SO. Please let me know if you have further questions, or need further information. Best, Jason A. Pannone, MA, MSLIS Librarian Robbins Library, Department of Philosophy Harvard University Emerson Hall 211 25 Quincy Street Cambridge MA 02138 617-495-2194 617-495-2192 (fax) pannone@fas.harvard.edu Epp, Ronald wrote: > Dear Mr. Pannone: > > I am writing to inquire whether you know of celebrations being planned > by the Philosophy Department for December 2005, > the 100th anniversary of Emerson Hall. > > For the past five years I have been researching a Harvard alum (class > of 1874), George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944), who established with > Harvard President Charles W. Eliot an organization in Maine called the > Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations. This land trust > accumulated donated properties that were gifted to the United States > to become in 1916 what today we call Acadia National Park. Mr Dorr was > its Superintendent for a quarter century. > > In 1901-1905 he was chairman of the Harvard University Philosophy > Department Visiting Committee that raised the funds to build Emerson > Hall. In the recently published University of Virginia Press twelve > volume edition of "The Correpondence of William James," Dorr's > friendship and professional involvement with Professor James is well > documented. > > I've made abundant use of manuscript resources at Houghton relative to 1 > the establishment of Emerson Hall relative to the biography of Mr. > Dorr that I am presently writing. I am most interested in any > information that you might have about this matter. > > Ronald H. Epp, M.L.S., , Ph.D. > Director of University Library & > Associate Professor of Philosophy > Southern New Hampshire University > Manchester, NH 03106 > > 603-668-2211 ext. 2164 > 603-645-9685 (fax) > 2