Edward S. Steele Papers, c. 1930-1954 | Oberlin College Archives

The papers consist of a typed manuscript by Steele titled, “The Open Secret.” On June 14, 1929, he wrote to W.F. Bohn, assistant to the president of Oberlin College, “My principal work will be entitled A Dogmatic Epistemology and will be a radical investigation of the human power of knowing.” In this letter and in subsequent correspondence he indicated that he planned to have a statement inserted in his will that his manuscripts be sent to Oberlin.

Note: Entry taken from William E. Bigglestone's unpublished "[preliminary] Guide to the Oberlin College Archives," which was prepared as individual entry sheets in a three-ring binder during the early 1980s.

INVENTORY

Box 1

            Biographical File, 1942, 1954

                        (contains chapter titles for manuscript)

            Manuscript “The Open Secret,” c. 1930 (13f)

                        The Simple and Complex Ideas of Locke

                        The Berkeleyan Idealism

                        Berkeley’s Insurrection. Thing and Attribute

                        David Hule. John Stewart Mill

                        The Radical Empiricism of William James

                                    and Its Sequents

                        Reid’s Refutation of the Doctrine of

                                    Lediating Ideas

                        Aristotle I. Logical Works

                        Aristotle II. Ousia, Logical or Material?

                        Aristotle III. The Pragmatic Accidents

                        Aristotle IV. Metaphysics

                        Causation

                        The Beginning of Thought

                        Relation and Its Grammatical Expression

                        The Nature of Intellectual Error

                        Views of the Copula, Substantive and

                                    Adjective Verbs

                        Space and Time

                        Memory and Reflection

                        Implication, or Syllogistic Inference

                        Logical Groundwork I. The Nature of the

                                    Judgment or Predication

                        Logical Groundwork II. Analytic and

                                    Synthetic Judgements

                        Synthetic Judgements A’Priori as the

                                    Basis of Relations

                        The Cogency as Modality of Judgements I.

                                    The Certain, the Possible, and

                                    the Probable

                        The Cogency as Modality of Judgements II.

                                    The A’Priori or Necessary

                        Specific Judgements of Relation

                        The Extension of Judgements. Classification

                        Summary of Judgement Forms

                        Substance and Reality

                        Immanuel Kant

                        Quantity and the Numeric Schematism

                        The Self and Self Perception o Consciousness

                        Abstraction and Abstract ideas

                        Faculties or Powers of the Human Mind

                        Reid and Hamilton

                        Naturalistic and Theoretic Thinking

                        Telec Evolution, a Study of Life, Both Static

                                    and Evolutionary

                        Esthetics, A Doctrine of the Beautiful

                        Sensation as Embodiment