Academic notes on various subjects undated

Biology papers and notes 1946-1948 and undated

"The Concept of Potentiality" and other Ph.D. work: notes and drafts circa 1953-1956

"The Concept of Potentiality:" notes and chapter drafts circa 1954-1956

Correspondence from various senders 1946-1983 and undated bulk

Employment applications: correspondence 1948-1952

Graduate study in Paris: application materials and correspondence 1951

Graduate study and fellowships: correspondence, applications, and other materials 1949-1953 and undated

"Is it Desirable That Every Educated Man Acquire Some Historical Knowledge of the Rise of Industrial Civilization?": paper undated

Mathematics notes, examinations, and other materials 1949-1950

Military service: commendations, correspondence, and other materials 1951-1958

Minisink Valley News: issues and other materials 1942-1944

Notes and drawings 1936-1946 and undated

Passports and other personal records 1941-1993

Philosophy and Greek (M.A. and Ph.D. study): exams, syllabi, and other materials 1949-1954 and undated

Poems and other creative writings undated

Primary school: writings and other materials 1939-1944 and undated

Secondary education: yearbook, correspondence, and other materials 1945-1948

"Truth and Its Object in Anselm, Aquinas, and Matthew of Aquasparta:" paper undated

University of Chicago: correspondence, grade reports, and other materials 1946-1952 and undated

Rorty, James and Winifred (Raushenbush): letters and cards to them 1943-1979 and undated

Rorty, James: letters and cards from him 1940-1962 and undated

Rorty, Winifred (Raushenbush): letters and cards from her 1941-1979 and undated

Beard, Eva and Marion Bullard: correspondence and other materials 1941-1953 and undated

Bullard, Marion: poems, clippings, and other materials 1955-1971 and undated

Disposition of parents' papers: correspondence 1981-1982 and undated

Lewis, L.R. (Leo Rich): early writings and obituary 1886, 1945

Marriage notices, birth announcements and congratulations: cards and telegrams 1954-1961 and undated

Oksenberg, Klara and Israel: correspondence 1953-1976 and undated

Poems and other writings, unsigned undated

Richardson, Mabel L.: legal correspondence 1971-1974

Rorty, Amélie Oksenberg: correspondence and other materials 1950-1971 and undated

Rorty, James: correspondence, writings, and other materials 1913-1962 and undated

Rorty, James: letters to L.R. (Leo Rich) Lewis 1913-1940

Rorty, James: letters to H.L. Mencken 1939

Rorty, James: World War I correspondence and other materials 1918-1919

Rorty, Jay and Patricia: writings for them by family members, and other materials 1961-1996 and undated

Rorty, Malcolm C.: writings and other materials 1928-1934 and undated

Rorty, Mary Varney: correspondence and other materials 1974-1977 and undated

Rorty and Rauschenbusch families: clippings, correspondence, and other materials 1863-1985

Rorty, Winifred (Raushenbush): writings, clippings, correspondence, and other materials 1918-1979

Rorty, Winifred (Raushenbush): biography of her and related correspondence 2000

Articles, book chapters, and other writings

"An Anti-Representationalist View: Comments on Miller, Van Fraassen, and Churchland:" draft 1990

"Aristotle," article for the American People's Encyclopedia: drafts and correspondence 1964

"Cartesian Epistemology and Changes in Ontology:" draft undated

"Changing World-Views and Scholastic Quibbles: An Answer to the Question 'What is Philosophy?:'" typed draft circa 1997

"Consciousness, Intentionality, and Pragmatism:" draft and correspondence 1990

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, preface to the Russian translation: draft and correspondence 1995

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, preface to the Serbian translation: draft and other materials circa 1993-1995

"The Contingency of Our Language:" draft undated

"The Continuity Between the Enlightenment and 'Postmodernism'" and German translation: drafts and notes undated

"The Current State of Philosophy in the U.S.:" draft 1994

"Davidson's Mental-Physical Distinction:" proof with notes circa 1999

"Deconstruction," article for the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: edited proof and correspondence 1994

"Derrida on Language, Being, and Abnormal Philosophy:" draft and correspondence 1977

"Does Academic Freedom Have Philosophical Presuppositions?" German translation: proof and correspondence 1994

"Duties to Self and Others: Comments on Nehamas:" drafts and other materials 1995 and undated

"Education, Socialization, and Individuation: Replies to Commentators:" draft and correspondence 1989

"Empiricism, Extensionalism, and Reductionism:" drafts, notes, and reviewers' copies circa 1963

"Existential Necessity and Kantian Unconditionality: A Response to Harald Kohl:" draft 2000

"Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes:" proof with corrections 1999

"Fraternity:" draft and correspondence 1996

"Freedom as Higher Than Being:" draft undated

"Half a Million Blue Helmets?" draft, offprint, and correspondence 1995-1996

"Heidegger Against the Pragmatists:" draft undated

"Heidegger's Litany:" draft undated

"Hoffnung statt Erkenntnis:" drafts and correspondence 1994

"Holism, Intentionality, and the Ambition of Transcendence:" drafts, notes, and reviewers' copies circa 1992-1993

"How Relevant is 'Postmodern' Philosophy to Politics?" draft 1998

"The Incommunicability of 'Felt Qualities':" drafts undated

"In Defense of Eliminative Materialism:" draft and correspondence 1969

"The Inspirational Value of Great Works of Literature:" drafts and correspondence 1996

"Intellectual Historians and Pragmatist Philosophy:" corrected draft and correspondence 2000

"The Intellectuals and the Poor:" draft 1996

"Intuition:" drafts and notes undated

"Is 'Cultural Recognition' a Useful Concept for Leftist Politics?" draft 1999

"Is Derrida a Transcendental Philosopher?" draft 1989

"Justice as a Larger Loyalty" and French translation: drafts, correspondence, and photocopy 1995-1997

"Kant as a Critical Philosopher:" partial draft undated

"Kripke on Mind-Body Identity:" draft and correspondence 1973 and undated

"Kuhn, Thomas S.," contribution to A Companion to the Philosophy of Science: draft and correspondence 1993-1994

"The Limits of Reductionism:" drafts undated

"Locke, Global Historicity and Linguistic Idealism" and German translation: drafts undated

"Matter and Event:" drafts, notes, offprint, and correspondence 1963, 1976 and undated

"Metaphilosophy:" draft 1974

"Mind-Body Identity and Irreducible Properties:" drafts, comments, and correspondence 1964 and undated

"Mind-Body Identity, Privacy, and Categories:" drafts and notes circa 1965

L'Espoir au Lieu du Savoir. Hope in Place of Knowledge (Philosophy and Social Hope). Draft of French translation from German: draft, correspondence, and contracts 1994

"The Overphilosophication of Politics:" proof and correspondence 1999

Pale Fire, Introduction: proof and research materials 1991

"The Paradox of Definitism:" drafts and notes undated

"The Philosopher as Expert:" drafts and correspondence 1963 and undated

Philosophy and Social Hope, Part 2: drafts, proofs, and other materials 1994

"Philosophy and the Dangers of the Twenty-First Century:" draft and correspondence 1994

"Philosophy and the Future:" draft and correspondence 2000

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: notes and partial draft undated

"Pragmatism," contribution to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis 2000

"Pragmatism," contribution to the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: draft, correspondence, and agreements 1993-1995 and undated

"Pragmatism and Religion:" draft circa 1996

"Pragmatism, Categories, and Language:" drafts undated

"Pragmatism, Davidson, and Truth," section I: drafts and correspondence 1985

"Pragmatism, Pluralism and Postmodernism:" draft 1998

"Pragmatism Without Method:" draft undated

"Pragmatisme, Moralité, et Imagination:" draft and notes undated

"A Pragmatist View of Contemporary Analytic Philosophy:" draft 1999

"Putnam on Truth:" draft 1989

"Rational Beauty, Non-discursive Sublimity, and the Community of Philosophers:" drafts 1988 and undated

"Realism, Categories, and the 'Linguistic Turn':" drafts, correspondence, and notes 1961-1962 and undated

"Realism, Anti-Realism, and Pragmatism: Comments on Alston, Chisholm, Davidson, Harman, and Searle:" draft 1991

"Recent Metaphilosophy:" draft and notes 1961

"Redemption from Egotism:" James and Proust as Spiritual Exercise:" draft 2000

"Reductionism" and related writings: drafts and notes undated

"Relations, Internal and External:" draft and correspondence 1965

"Religious Faith, Intellectual Responsibility, and Romance" and French translation: draft and proof undated

"A Reply to Six Critics:" proof circa 1984

"Solidarity or Objectivity:" draft undated

"The Subjectivist Principle and the Linguistic Turn:" notes undated

"Texts and Lumps:" draft undated

"Trapped Between Kant and Dewey: The Current Situation of Moral Philosophy:" draft 2000

"Universality and Truth:" draft with notes 1993

"Verification and Transcendental Arguments" and "Criteria and Necessity," German translations: drafts 1976-1977

"What is Dead in Plato:" draft undated

Book reviews

Aron, Raymond: Introduction to the Philosophy of History, review: draft circa 1961

Bernstein, Richard: The New Constellation, review: draft and correspondence 1994

Blanchard, Brand: Reason and Analysis, review: draft 1963

Bloom, Harold: The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, review: draft with notes 1973

Blumberg, Hans: The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, review: draft with notes circa 1983

Boler, John F.: Charles Peirce and Scholastic Realism, review: draft and correspondence 1963

Corman, James W.: Metaphysics, Reference, and Language, review: drafts, 1967

Feyeraband, Paul: Killing Time (autobiography), review: draft 1995

Goodman, Paul: Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals, review: draft circa 1963

Grene, Marjorie: A Portrait of Aristotle, review: notes undated

Jencks, Christopher and David Reisman: The Academic Revolution, review: draft undated

Lamont, W.D.: The Value Judgement, review: draft undated

Levi, Albert William: Philosophy as Social Expression, critical review: report and correspondence 1971

Lewis, H.D. (ed.): Clarity is Not Enough, review: draft, offprint, and correspondence 1963-1964

Moore, Edward C.: American Pragmatism, review: draft 1962

Rosen, Stanley: Nihilism, review: proof undated

Schacht, Richard: Nietzsche; and Gilles Deleuze: Nietzsche and Philosophy, review essay: draft and correspondence 1983

Conference papers and public lectures

American Philosophical Association conference (San Francisco), session on Robert Brandom: paper 1995

American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, conference: paper and other materials 1965

American Philosophical Association, Western Division, conference (Seattle): paper 1996

American Philosophical Association conference: paper 1980

Clark Lectures and Northcliffe Lectures: notes circa 1986

Cognitive Psychology and the New Epistemology symposium (Loyola University): paper drafts, correspondence, and program 1981-1982

Comments on papers by other scholars: drafts undated

Globalization and Cultural Identity conference: draft of remarks undated

Husserl symposium (Vienna): radio program transcript 1985

International Center for Semiotic and Cognitive Studies workshop (University of San Marino, 1993): notes and other materials 1990-1993 and undated

Labor Teach-in (Columbia University): speech and other materials 1996

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) symposium, 2000 Things in the Making: Contemporary Architecture and the Pragmatist Imagination: remarks 2000

Philosophy's Relation to the Humanities conference: paper outline 1998

The Tradition of Western Philosophy and Pragmatism seminar (Otani University): introductory remarks 1999

William Alanson White Institute: panel remarks 1995

"Wittgenstein and Heidegger," lecture (Frankfurt): notes undated

World Congress of Philosophy (Moscow): paper and other materials 1993

Printed material 1963-1999

Printed material 2000 and undated

"Cultural Politics and the Question of the Existence of God": audio recording 2002 July 17

Use copy 2002

Archival preservation compact disk 2002

Archival original cassette 2002

A 1963-1981

A 1982-1995 and undated

B 1960-1971

B 1971-1983

B 1982-1998 and undated

Baier, Annette 1980-1990 and undated

Bradley, Bill (U.S. Senator) 1987-1995

C 1964-1977

C 1978-1998 and undated

Cambridge University Press and other publishers 1968-1994

Chicago (University of) Press 1964-1969

D 1961-1993

D undated

Derrida, Jacques 1978, 1982, and 1983

Dreyfus, Hubert 1979-1985

E 1961-1999 and undated

F 1962-1972

F 1974-1993 and undated

Fisk, Milton 1965-1989

G 1961-1983

G 1984-2001 and undated

H 1955-1979

H 1975-1989

H 1986-2001 and undated

Habermas, Juergen 1970-1995

I 1963-1997 and undated

J 1961-1976

J 1977-1994 and undated

K 1962-1981

K 1982-1995 and undated

L 1974-1996 and undated

Linguistic Turn: letters to authors concerning permission to republish essays 1965-1966

M 1961-1981

M 1980-1995 and undated

N 1959-1996 and undated

Nehamas, Alexander after 1990

O 1961-1979

O 1979-1994 and undated

P 1962-1983

P 1984-2000 and undated

Princeton University Press 1977-1981

Publishing royalties 1991-1995

Q 1965-1991

R 1959-1979

R 1975-1994 and undated

S 1960-1965

S 1965-1984

S 1980-1995 and undated

Shoemaker, Sydney undated

Speaking engagements 1970-1973

Speaking engagements 1973-1981

T 1960-1980

T 1980-1994 and undated

Translations of writings 1985-1996

U 1963-1991 and undated

V 1964-1990 and undated

Vajda, Mihály 1993-1994

Virgina, University of, and Princeton University 1981-1987

W 1961-1969

W 1971-2000 and undated

X 1981-1982

Y 1962-1988

Z 1968-1989 and undated

Unidentified senders 1968-1991 and undated

Adler, Mortimer, J.: notes undated

Analytical philosophy: notes undated

Aristotle: notes and articles undated

Arnold, Matthew: article 1988

Ayer, James, and Royce: notes undated

Bibliographic research: printouts and photocopies 1993 and undated

Bloom, Harold: notes undated

Brandom, Robert: notes undated

Bubner: notes undated

Culler, Jonathan: notes and article 1983 and undated

Davidson, Donald and Paul de Man: notes undated

Derrida, Jacques: notes undated

Dewey and Peirce: notes undated

Dreyfus, Hubert: notes undated

"The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking:" lecture notes undated

Epistemology: notes undated

Ethnocentrism: notes undated

Fichte: notes undated

Fish, Stanley: notes undated

Føllesdal: notes undated

Grunbaum, Freud, and others: notes undated

Heidegger, Martin: articles with notations 1979-1988 and undated

Heidegger: notes undated

Heidegger, Gadamer, and Derrida: notes undated

Heidegger, Husserl, and Sartre: notes undated

Heidegger: lecture notes by Hubert Dreyfus undated

Heideggerian terms: glossaries undated

Hesse: notes undated

Historicism: notes undated

Hume: notes and annotated book chapter undated

Ideas for papers: typescripts undated

Jaspers: notes undated

Kant and Descartes: notes undated

Kuhn, Feyerabend, Davidson, Habermas, Foucault, Gadamer, and Heidegger: notes undated

Leibniz: notes on lectures by Hampshire undated

Kant and Hegel: notes undated

Kierkegaard: notes undated

Lacan: notes undated

Locke: notes undated

Mill: notes undated

Morality, moral relativism, and ethical relativism: notes and article 1999 and undated

Nabokov, Vladimir: photocopies 1962

Nietzsche: notes undated

"Omniscience and Freedom:" lecture notes undated

Peirce, Benjamin: notes undated

Phenomenology and existentialism: notes and bibliography undated

"Philosophy Among the Humanities:" brief note undated

Plato: notes and articles 1982-1986 and undated

"Popular Lectures:" notes (from folder so labeled) undated

Public intellectuals: notes undated

Royce: notes undated

Searle: notes undated

Tillich: notes undated

"Time and the World Order:" notes undated

Various topics: lecture notes undated

Various topics: notes and note cards undated

Wiggins: notes undated

Articles and papers responding to Rorty's work: drafts 1982-1992 and undated

Articles and papers responding to Rorty's work: drafts 1980 and undated

Articles and papers responding to Rorty's work: drafts and photocopies 1980 and undated

Articles and papers responding to Rorty's work: drafts, print-outs and correspondence 1982-1993 and undated

Articles responding to Rorty's work: offprints, photocopies, and journal issues 1982-1995 and undated

Brandom, Robert: book review draft and several articles (print) 1976-1988 and undated

"Contemporary Philosophy of Mind:" photocopy with notes 1982

Field, Hartry offprints and photocopies 1974, 1978

Graff, Gerald: articles (photocopies) 1980-1986 and undated

Kripke, Saul. "Identity and Necessity:" offprint undated

La Modernité en Question chez J. Habermas et R. Rorty conference (Centre Culturel International de Cerisy, Paris): conference programs, paper abstracts, and other materials 1993

"Putnam and the Relativist Menace" and response: offprint and draft 1992-1993

Comparative Literature courses, Stanford University: syllabus and exam 2001

Crisis and the Imagination (European Cultural Studies 320), Princeton University: notes, course evaluations, syllabi, and other materials 1975-1976

Deconstruction (Studies in Criticism and Theory 863), University of Virginia: notes, reading list, and other materials 1988

Early Modern Philosophy (Philosophy 332), Princeton University: syllabi, notes, assignments, and other materials 1979-1981

Epistemology (Philosophy 313): lecture notes undated

Freud and Philosophy (Humanistic Studies 954): syllabus, correspondence, and other materials 1984

Hegel, Nietzsche, and Existentialism (Philosophy 306), Princeton University: syllabus and notes 1964

Hegel to Derrida (Philosophy 318/518), University of Virginia: notes, exams, and reading list 1987

Heidegger courses, University of Virginia: syllabi and notes 1985, 1989

Hirsch, E.D.: lecture notes for his course 1985-1992

Holism, Positivism and Hermeneutics, seminar at Johns Hopkins University: lecture notes 1985

Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy (Philosophy 203), Princeton University: notes, reading lists, course evaluations, and other materials 1967-1968

Introduction to Contemporary Metaphysics (Philosophy 203), Princeton University circa 1976-1979

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany): course catalog and seminar descriptions circa 1977

Kant (Philosophy 304), Princeton University: notes, syllabi, course evaluations, and other materials 1970-1979

Meaning of a Text (Philosophy 806): notes and research materials 1974-1989 and undated

The Mind-Body Problem seminar: syllabus and notes undated

Naturalization of Semantics seminar: notes 1989

The Nature of the University (Humanistic Studies 205): syllabi, exams, manuscripts, and other materials 1972-1973

Nietzsche-Heidegger seminar: notes undated

Phenomenology and Existentialism: Continental and Analytical Perspectives on Intentionality (Berkeley Summer Institute): syllabus, lecture notes, correspondence, and other materials 1980

Philosophy 101, Wellesley College: notes, syllabi, and exams 1958

Philosophy 105C, Wellesley College: assignments, exams, and notes 1960

Philosophy 214, Wellesley College: notes, syllabi, exams, and other materials 1960

Philosophy 261: notes, undated

Philosophy 305, Princeton University: reading lists 1964

Philosophy 309, Princeton University: notes and reading lists 1963

Philosophy 364: notes undated

The Philosophy of Aristotle (Philosophy 501), Princeton University: syllabi and notes 1961-1963

Philosophy from Kant to 1900 (Philosophy 333), Princeton University: notes, course evaluations, handouts, and other materials 1979-1982 and undated

Philosophy of Mind (Philosophy 315), Princeton University: lecture notes, course evaluations, and reading lists 1969-1972

Philosophy of Mind (Philosophy 322), Wellesley College: syllabus 1958

Plato, Philosophy of Religion, and other topics (various courses): notes, exams, and other materials undated and 1961

Putnam and Davidson (Philosophy 805), University of Virginia: course reader 1994

Rationality and Relativism: syllabus and notes undated

Recent Philosophical Systems (Philosophy 203), Princeton University: notes, syllabus, course evaluations, and other materials 1962 and undated

Rise and Decline of the American Left seminar: correspondence, research and other materials 1996

Sellars, Wilfrid (courses on), Princeton University: reading lists, notes, and other materials 1967-1976 and undated

Subject-Object seminar: notes undated

The Sublime and the Beautiful (Studies in Criticism and Theory 982), University of Virginia: course reader 1998

Syllabi and course reader (various courses) 1961-1994 and undated

Theories of Interpretation (Studies in Criticism and Theory): syllabus, lectures notes, readings, and research material 1985-1988

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship application 1968-1969

American Philosophical Association: bulletins 1971-1973

American Philosophical Association: correspondence, meeting minutes, agendas, and other materials 1979-1981

American Philosophical Association: correspondence and other materials 1980

American Philosophical Association: correspondence, agendas, meeting minutes 1979-1980

American Philosophical Association: correspondence with Maurice Mandelbaum and others 1970-1974

American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division nominating committee: correspondence, bylaws, reports and other materials 1980

Calendars and appointment books 1985-1999

Carnegie Summer Institute in Philosophy (University of Notre Dame): correspondence and other materials 1968

Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences: list of fellows, correspondence, and related materials 1981-1982

Chinese and Japanese scholars: notes, correspondence, and other materials 1982-1987 and undated

Dartmouth College School of Criticism and Theory: participants' statements of purpose and photographs 1992

Guggenheim (John Simon) Memorial Foundation: application, correspondence, and other materials 1969-1975

Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik: correspondence and other materials 1980-1981

John Dewey Foundation: correspondence, meeting minutes, financial records 1978-1996 and undated

Library of America: correspondence and publications 1992-1993

MacArthur Foundation: press release, fellowship recipient list, and clippings 1981

McCosh Faculty Fellowship application 1968

Metaphysical Society of America: meeting program committee correspondence and proposed program 1972

Modern Studies and Literature (M.A. program), University of Virginia: correspondence, reading list and other materials 1994

Monist board: conference letters, response sheets, and other materials 1969

Nanzan University (Japan) workshop/lecture program on American culture: correspondence and related materials 1983

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): correspondence, financial statements, proposed course materials, and other materials 1978-1979

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): fellowship applications, draft proposals, and other materials 1965-1967 and undated

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): fellowship application 1991

New School for Social Research, Enabling Committee for Hirings: correspondence, CVs, and other materials 1981-1982

Peirce (Charles S.) historic site: correspondence, exhibit design notes, scholarly papers and other materials 1974-1978

Philosophy (Department of), Princeton University: correspondence 1967-1980

Philosophy (Department of), University of Virginia: course descriptions and other materials 1986-1988

Princeton University academic programs: reports and other materials 1974-1978

Research project proposals received 1981-1991 and undated

Theory Seminar, University of Virginia: planning committee correspondence and other materials 1995

Collections in translation, reviews: clippings and photocopies 1991-1994

Consequences of Pragmatism, reviews: clippings, photocopies, typescript 1983-1989

Consequences of Pragmatism and Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, review essays: print and photocopy 1983-1984

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, reviews: photocopies 1991-1992

"Freud and Moral Reflection" in Pragmatism's Freud (eds. Smith and Kerrigan), review: photocopy 1986

Philosophical Papers, volumes I and II, reviews: clippings and photocopies 1991 and undated

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, reviews: clippings, photocopies, offprints, and typescripts 1981-1984

Linguistic Turn, reviews: clippings and photocopies 1968-1972

Philosophy in History, reviews: clippings and photocopies 1985-1986

Conference and lecture programs 1967-1995

Conference posters 1980-1996

Curricula vitae and bibliography circa 1964-2003

Honors bestowed: event programs 1992, 1997

Interviews, profiles, and other articles: print and photocopies 1981-1997 and undated

Photographs undated