MOORE, Addison Webster.

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Papers from the archive of Addison Webster Moore. Correspondence, lecture drafts, and memoranda written by or addressed to the American philosopher. The papers, which come from Moore's estate, comprise 39 autograph letters and over 100 pages of notes. They cumulatively shed light on one of the most important figures in the establishment and defence of the Chicago school of American pragmatism.Moore and his Chicago colleagues formalized the pragmatic philosophy and functional psychology developed by William James and Charles Sanders Peirce. Moore became known as the "bulldog of pragmatism" for his fiercely polemical writings (Shook, p. xiii). He took up the pragmatist mantle from James with the publication of Pragmatism and Its Critics (1910). If Moore was bullish in public, this group of manuscript and typewritten material suggests that he was more anxious and reserved in private.The correspondence includes letters to Moore from luminaries of Anglo-American philosophy and psychology such as William James, John Dewey, F. H. Bradley, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, F. C. S. Schiller, plus several early presidents of the American Psychological Association like James Mark Baldwin, Hugo Münsterberg, and Mary Whiton Calkins. These exchanges illustrate the vigorous debates between Moore and his contemporaries. A letter from Bradley responds to Moore's 1903 article "Existence, Meaning and Reality in Locke's Essay and in Present Epistemology", in which he critiques Bradley's idealist theory of

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