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The Press: "Government Policy On University 'Shocking'"
Christchurch newspaper The Press made an interview with A.N. Prior on the eve of his departure from New Zealand to the UK, to take up an academic postion at Manchester University.
A.N. Prior, C.A. Meredith, et al., "Equational & modal logic", Part 1: 'Papers on equational logic' [mimeograph]
A five-part booklet of logic material, compiled by Prior from his and notes by other authors, and mimeographed at the University of Canterbury's Philosophy Department. It is marked as a donation from Prof. A.N. Prior to UC Library, made on 17 October…
Arthur Prior's parents [photograph]
The wedding photograph of Bessie (Elizabeth Munton Rothesay Teague) and Norman Prior. Sitting from left: the youngest sister of Bessie, Monica; Bessie's mother, Mrs. Teague; Bessie, second youngest sister of Bessie, Dora; standing from left:…
Memoir of A.N. Prior by Anthony Kenny
A memoir about Arthur Prior's life and work by his colleague and friend Anthony Kenny, written as an obituary for the British Academy. Kenny and Prior were both Philosophy Tutors at Balliol College in Oxford in the years before Prior's death.
The Times: Mr Arthur Prior, A notable scholar
Additional commentary by A. Kenny on Prior's obituary in The Times. The Times, 17 Oct. 1969.
A.N. Prior, "Definitions, rules and axioms" [manuscript]
The original manuscript of Prior's paper published in The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 56, 1955–56. Typed, with handwritten corrections. The paper was read at the meeting of the Aristotelian Society in London on 28 May 1956, at 7 pm,…
A.N. Prior, "Critical notice, The elements of formal logic by Hughes and Londey" [manuscript]
The original manuscript ofA. Prior's review of Hughes & Londey's The elements of formal logic, later published in The Australasian journal of philosophy, vol. 44, 1966. Typed, contains inserted handwritten phrases and symbols, and passages marked…
A.N. Prior, "English and ontology" [manuscript]
The original manuscript ofA. Prior's paperlater published in The British journal for the philosophy of science, vol. 6, 1955–56. Mentions Popper in §7
A.N. Prior, "Is necessary existence possible?" [manuscript]
The original manuscript ofA. Prior's paper later published in Philosophy and the phenomenological research, vol. 15, 1955.
A.N. Prior, "Creation in science and theology" [manuscript]
The original manuscript ofA. Prior's paper later published in Southern Stars, vol. 18, 1959