Guide to the John D. Goheen Papers SC0267

compiled by Stanford University Archives staff
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
February 2011
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu

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Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: John D. Goheen papers
creator: Goheen, John D.
Identifier/Call Number: SC0267
Physical Description: 8 Linear Feet (15 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1936-1977
Abstract: The papers pertain largely to East Asian studies at Stanford and in Japan and Taiwan, as well as Goheen's teaching and scholarly works. They include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, proposals, reports, papers, class materials, American Philosophical Association files, and photograph albums. Other subjects include an intercultural education project in the Palo Alto Unified School District, 1960-1962, and Goheen's appointment to Stanford.

Conditions Governing Access note

There are some personnel type materials in at least one file, possibly more. Needs review

Information about Access

This collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 48 hours in advance of intended use.

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Cite As

[Identification of item], John D. Goheen Papers (SC0267). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

John D. Goheen was a professor of philosophy at Stanford University from 1950 to 1972. Goheen, who earned his Ph.D. at Harvard, taught at Harvard and Queens College (New York) before coming to Stanford. He was instrumental in setting up the university's study centers in Japan and Taiwan in the 1960s; he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Japanese government for his contributions to U.S.-Japanese cultural and educational relations. He retired from teaching in 1972, but continued to be active on the Stanford campus, serving as the university Ombudsperson from 1974 to 1985.

Description of the Collection

The papers of John D. Goheen document his life as a student, teacher, and scholar, with special emphasis on his years at Stanford University and his role in developing overseas study centers in Japan and Taiwan. Included are correspondence, memoranda, minutes, proposals, reports, lecture notes, syllabi, manuscripts, and articles, largely dating from 1950 to 1977; correspondence files and photograph albums pertaining to the Seminar in American Studies at Tokyo and Stanford in Tokyo, 1951-1963; and Goheen's student notes and papers while at Harvard, 1931-1937. Also of note are correspondence files with the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation concerning funding of programs, 1952-1963; materials pertaining to an intercultural education project in the Palo Alto Unified School District, 1960-62; and Goheen's correspondence files while an officer of the American Philosophical Association, 1968-1970.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Philosophy -- Study and teaching.
Albums.
Photoprints.
Intercultural education.
East Asia -- Study and teaching.
Stanford University. Department of Philosophy. Faculty
Palo Alto Unified School District.
Stanford University. Stanford Center for Chinese Studies in Taipei
Stanford University. East Asian Studies
American Philosophical Association.
Stanford University. Stanford Center for Japanese Studies
Goheen, John D.
Goheen, John D.

 

Papers Series 1

box 1, folder 1

American Seminar in Japanese Studies 1952-1954

box 1, folder 2

Center for East Asian Cultural Studies 1961-1962

box 1, folder 3

Committee on Comparative Thought

box 1, folder 4

Committee on Comparative Thought

box 1, folder 5

East Asian Program Committee at Stanford 1960

box 1, folder 6

East Asian Research Committee at Stanford 1962

box 1, folder 7

East Asian Research Committee at Stanford 1963

box 1, folder 8

East Asian Studies at Stanford (Provost's Special Committee) 1961-1962

box 1, folder 9

Galvin, John A.T., letters to 1958-1962

box 1, folder 10

International Studies Committee

box 1, folder 11

Institute of International Education

box 1, folder 12

Interuniversity Program for Chinese Language Studies at Taipei 1961-1962

box 1, folder 13

Interuniversity Program for Chinese Language Studies at Taipei 1963

box 1, folder 14

Japanese Studies Institute at Stanford

box 2, folder 1

Palo Alto Teachers' Program 1960-1962

box 2, folder 2

Rockefeller Foundation 1959-1963

box 2, folder 3

Rockefeller Foundation 1956-1958

box 2, folder 4

Rockefeller Foundation 1955

box 2, folder 5

Rockefeller Foundation 1952-1954

box 2, folder 6

Stanford correspondence 1949-1951, 1957

 

Additional Papers Accession ARCH-1994-080

 

General Files Subseries 1

box 1, folder 1

American Philosophical Association 1958

box 1, folder 2

American Philosophical Association 1966-1967

box 1, folder 3

American Philosophical Association 1967

box 1, folder 47

American Philosophical Association 1968-70

box 1, folder 8

American Philosophical Association, Stanley Moore file 1954-1956

box 1, folder 9

American Studies Library

box 1, folder 10

American Studies Program in Japan

box 1, folder 11

American Studies Seminar, Miscellaneous Information 1967

box 1, folder 12

Aristotle: Finished Essays

box 1, folder 13

The Asia Foundation

box 2, folder 1

Augustine: Essays

box 2, folder 2

Carnap, Ina, letters to Nancy Goheen

box 2, folder 3

Chinese Thought

box 2, folder 4

Correspondence, Miscellaneous 1960

box 2, folder 5

Goheen: American Philosophy in the 20th Century

box 2, folder 6

Goheen: Aristotle (typed report) p 1-55

box 2, folder 7

Goheen: Aristotle (typed report) incomplete copy

box 2, folder 8

Goheen: Book Review, Rationalism in Greek Philosophy, by Boas 1961

box 2, folder 9

Goheen: Book Review, A Study of Good by Nishada 1964

box 2, folder 10

Goheen: Comment on Professor Kuklicks's paper, Berkeley 1976

box 2, folder 11

Goheen: Comment on Professor Singer's "Cultural Values in India's Economic Development" 1958 Oct

box 2, folder 12

Goheen: "Concerning a Certain Tendency in French Ethical Thought"

box 2, folder 13

Goheen: "The Cost of Social Security" Chapter VI

box 2, folder 14

Goheen: The Development of Western Philosophy, 67 pages

box 2, folder 15

Goheen: The Development of Western Philosophy, 100 pages

box 2, folder 16

Goheen: Dewey and Miscellaneous Notes

box 2, folder 17

Goheen: "Faith and Reason"

box 2, folder 18

Goheen: "French Ethical Thought"

box 2, folder 19

Goheen: "Impressions of Change in Japan Since the War"

box 3, folder 1

Goheen "An Interpretation of Greek Philosophical Thought" (originals)

box 3, folder 2

Goheen "An Interpretation of Greek Philosophical Thought" 1-63

box 3, folder 3

Goheen "An Interpretation of Greek Philosophical Thought: Origins" p. 1-7

box 3, folder 4

Goheen "Intro. to Whitehead's Metaphysics" pp. 1-82

box 3, folder 5

Goheen "Intro. to Whitehead's Process and Reality final copy

box 3, folder 6

Goheen "Intro. to Whitehead's Process and Reality preliminary copy

box 3, folder 7

Goheen: Introductory lectures to Whitehead's Process and Reality (notebooks)

box 3, folder 8

Goheen: Introduction to Whitehead's Process and Reality (II), printed article in Japanese 1968

box 3, folder 9

Goheen: Notes on James

box 3, folder 10

Goheen: "William James and His Philosophy of Pragmatism" 1950

box 3, folder 11

Goheen: "James and the Hellenistic Tradition"

box 3, folder 12

Goheen: "James and the Hellenistic Tradition" (mimeographed copy)

box 3, folder 13

Goheen: "William James and the Scientific Tradition

box 3, folder 14

Goheen "The Japanese Student" taped April 12, 1962

box 3, folder 15

Goheen: The meaning of "good" in Plato

box 3, folder 16

Goheen: The metaphysics of Dewey and Whitehead, ch. 1-7 (notebooks)

box 4, folder 1

Goheen: The metaphysics of Dewey and Whitehead, ch. 7-9, 5 (notebooks)

box 4, folder 2

Goheen: The metaphysics of Dewey and Whitehead, ch. 10-14 (notebooks)

box 4, folder 3

Goheen: The metaphysics of Dewey and Whitehead, ch. 15-16 (notebook)

box 4, folder 4

Goheen: The metaphysics of Dewey and Whitehead: A Comparison Chapters I-IX

box 4, folder 5

Goheen: The metaphysics of Dewey and Whitehead: A Comparison Chapters X-XIII & Misc. Chapters

box 4, folder 6

Goheen: "New Trends in American Philosophy"

box 4, folder 7

Goheen: "Notes on Northrup's Meeting of East and West

box 4, folder 8

Goheen: Notes; Dewey, James, Darwin

box 4, folder 9

Goheen: Notes on Plato's Philebus

box 4, folder 10

Goheen: "Philosophy and this Crisis"

box 4, folder 11

Goheen: "Philosophy and this Crisis"

box 4, folder 12

Goheen: "Philosophy of Democracy"

box 4, folder 13

Goheen: Plato (typed report)

box 4, folder 14

Goheen: Plato, Essays

box 4, folder 15

Goheen: Plato, Essays

box 4, folder 16

Goheen: Plato, Philosophy of State

box 4, folder 17

Goheen: Preface for Ethics and Perinalology by John Goheen and George Cattermole

box 5, folder 1

Goheen: Presocratics

box 5, folder 2

Goheen: The problem of Philosophical Knowledge.

box 5, folder 34

Goheen: Rough Drafts

box 5, folder 5

Goheen: The Sophists

box 5, folder 6

Goheen: Sophists/ Socrates

box 5, folder 7

Goheen: Subjectivity and Objectivity in Lewis' Theory of Value

box 5, folder 8

Goheen: Notes on Talks

box 5, folder 9

Goheen: Teaching of Philosophy in the Introductory Course 1952

box 5, folder 10

Goheen: Tendencies in American Philosophy

box 5, folder 11

Goheen: Various unpublished papers; some published reviews

box 5, folder 12

Goheen: What is Scientific Philosophy?

box 5, folder 13

Goldstein, Rob - Philosophy Papers

box 5, folder 14

Graduate Humanities exams

box 5, folder 15

Hiraga - foreign student, letter concerning 1963

box 5, folder 16

History 10, Western Civilization 1960

box 5, folder 17

History of Social Ideas; Bibliography

box 6, folder 1

Iino, Norimoto, correspondence 1963

box 6, folder 2

International House of Japan, correspondence 1955-60

box 6, folder 3

Isenberg, Arnold, articles and papers 1944-1966

box 6, folder 4

Isenberg, Arnold, articles and papers, vita, and one letter 1949-1955

box 6, folder 5

Iwasaki, Takeo, correspondence 1954-1963

box 6, folder 6

Japan Society, correspondence 1958-1961

box 6, folder 7

Kishimoto, Hideo 1962

box 6, folder 8

Komiya, Ryutare, correspondence 1955-1959

box 6, folder 9

Lewis, C. I., correspondence with and about 1952-1963

box 6, folder 10

Lewis, C. I., research correspondence 1989

box 6, folder 11

Miner, Earl, correspondence 1959-1962

box 6, folder 12

Miyamoto, Shoson, correspondence 1955-1960

box 6, folder 13

Mothershead, John, correspondence 1950-1964

box 6, folder 14

Murayama, Masao, letter 1959

box 6, folder 15

Nagura, Dr. Eiji and Mioko, correspondence 1952-1955

box 6, folder 16

Nakamura, Hajime, correspondence 1953-1960

box 7, folder 1

Nakanishi, Hideo, correspondence 1956

box 7, folder 2

Nakaya, Ken, correspondence 1953-1960

box 7, folder 3

Nakayama, Shigeru, correspondence 1954-1955

box 7, folder 4

Nishimura, Iwao (Fulbrights), correspondence 1959

box 7, folder 5

Noda, Matao, correspondence and articles 1951-1963

box 7, folder 6

Oche, Seizo, correspondence 1955

box 7, folder 7

Ohfuti, Kaguo, correspondence 1958

box 7, folder 8

Ohmori, Shozo, All Summer Seminar '56, correspondence and a paper 1953-1956

box 7, folder 9

Okai, Nobushigi, correspondence 1955-1960

box 7, folder 10

Peninsula Committee for Freedom in Education (flyer, newsletter, and notes) 1960, undated

box 7, folder 11

Philosophy 5, Lecture Notes

box 7, folder 12

Philosophy 5, Lecture notes on Extensional and Intensional Statements

box 7, folder 13

Philosophy 10, Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, syllabi 1960-1967

box 7, folder 14

Philosophy 10, lecture notes 1959-1960

box 7, folder 15

Philosophy 170 Theory of Value, Tokyo pp 1-100 1956 summer

box 7, folder 16

Philosophy 170 Theory of Value, Tokyo pp 101-190 1956 summer

box 7, folder 17

Philosophy and Literature, lecture notes 1972-1973

box 7, folder 18

Philosophy of History, lecture notes

box 7, folder 19

Philosophy--American Philosophy, three lectures

box 8, folder 1

Philosophy--American Philosophy, lecture notes, UC Hayward 1974 winter

box 8, folder 2

Philosophy--American Philosophy, lecture notes 1967-1968

box 8, folder 3

Rockefeller Foundation, correspondence 1961

box 8, folder 4

Shimizu, Hiroshi, correspondence 1954-1955

box 8, folder 5

Stanford in Tokyo, Committee Minutes 1957-1959

box 8, folder 6

Structured Liberal Education, lecture notes 1976 fall/winter

box 8, folder 7

Structured Liberal Education, lecture notes 1977 winter

box 8, folder 8

Takahashi, Tatsujiro of the Yoseido Gallery, correspondence 1961-1962

box 8, folder 9

Tsurumi, Shunsuke, correspondence 1952-1959

box 8, folder 10

US National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), conference programs and notes 1957

box 8, folder 11

Uyeda, Seizi, correspondence 1951-1963

box 8, folder 12

Waseda University, correspondence re book collection for the Association for the Study of American Philosophy 1954-1956

box 8, folder 13

Whitehead, Dewey MS Meeting, [Goheen's articles presumably used for that meeting] 1966 summer

box 8, folder 14

Wright, Arthur F. Papers and memoranda re East Asian thought

 

Stanford in Tokyo Files Subseries 2

box 9, folder 1

Chenery-Shishido Research Project, correspondence 1958-1960

box 9, folder 2

Endoh, Hiroshi, correspondence 1962-1963

box 9, folder 3

Festinger, Leon, correspondence 1959-1960

box 9, folder 4

Gellhorn, Walter, correspondence 1957-1958

box 9, folder 5

Hatano, Ichiro, correspondence 1951-1962

box 9, folder 6

Kaji, Shinjo, correspondence 1953-1955

box 9, folder 7

Kaji, Shinjo, correspondence 1955-1963

box 9, folder 8

Kanamatsu, Kenryo, correspondence 1953-1963

box 9, folder 9

Kawashima, Takeyoshi, correspondence 1958-1960

box 9, folder 10

Konischi, Jinichi, correspondence 1956-1958

box 9, folder 11

Kyogoku, Jun-ichi, correspondence and one article 1958-1959

box 9, folder 12

Kuroda, Wataru, correspondence 1961-1962

box 9, folder 13

Nakamura seminar, minutes and transcripts 1951-1952

box 9, folder 14

Ogawa, Ichiro, correspondence 1959-1960

box 9, folder 15

Okano, Yukihide, correspondence 1960

box 9, folder 16

Pyle, Kenneth, correspondence 1963

box 9, folder 17

Quine, Willard V., correspondence and one article 1953-1959

box 9, folder 18

Taira, Koji, correspondence 1959

box 9, folder 19

Shepard, Larry E., correspondence 1959

box 9, folder 20

Shimizu, Tomohisa, correspondence 1960-1961

box 9, folder 21

Shively, Donald, correspondence 1959-1960

box 9, folder 22

Smith, Thomas C., correspondence re summer conference 1960

box 9, folder 23

Spiller, Robert E., correspondence 1959

box 9, folder 24

Stanford-Tokyo Collaborative Studies Committee (agendas, memoranda, and correspondence) 1957-1960

box 9, folder 25

Stanford Chair in Japanese History and Civilization, correspondence re candidates 1956-1960

box 9, folder 26

Tada, Michitaro, correspondence 1955-1956

box 9, folder 27

Takahashi, Akiko, correspondence re sponsorship 1960

box 9, folder 28

Takayanagi, Shinichi, correspondence 1957-1958

box 10, folder 1

Takeda, Hiromichi, correspondence and one article 1951-1963

box 10, folder 2

Takeo, Jiichiro, correspondence 1957-1960

box 10, folder 3

Toyoda, Takeshi, correspondence 1958-1959

box 10, folder 4

Yamada, Chisaburoh, correspondence 1962-1963

box 10, folder 5

Yanaihara, Tadao, correspondence 1957-1958

box 10, folder 6

Watanabe, Toshio, correspondence 1962-1963

box 10, folder 7

Yashiro, Yukio, correspondence 1955-1959

box 10, folder 8

Yoshida, Teigo, correspondence 1961

box 10, folder 9

Yoshimura, Masatoshi, correspondence and one photograph 1960-1963

box 10, folder 10

Stanford in Tokyo, scrapbook 1960-1961

 

Student Papers Subseries 3

box 10, folder 11

Notebook 1931-1936

box 10, folder 12

Notebook (C.I. Lewis on logic) no date

box 10, folder 13

Notebook (Socrates) no date

box 10, folder 14

Lecture notes, Whitehead at Harvard 1936 Nov- 1937 May

box 10, folder 15

Essays on Whitehead 1933-1935

box 10, folder 16

Essays on Whitehead 1935-1937

box 10, folder 17

Miscellaneous photographs

box 11

Photocopies and typescripts of C. I. Lewis's papers

box 12

Photocopies and typescripts of C. I. Lewis's papers

 

Photograph Albums Subseries 4

box 13

Seven photograph albums on the Seminar in American Studies at Tokyo 1951-1956

box 13

One photograph album on the opening of Stanford in Tokyo, includes photographs of J.E. Wallace Sterling 1961