Bernard Peach papers, [1946 - 1992]

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Summary

Creator:
Peach, Bernard, 1918-
Abstract:
William Bernard Peach, emeritus professor, joined the Duke University Philosophy Department in 1951. Major subjects of the collection include student papers on philosophy; department business; and notes on Hegel, Descartes, Clarence I. Lewis, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The collection contains correspondence, recommendations, student papers, departmental minutes, lecture notes, and grant proposals. English.
Extent:
9 Linear Feet
9000 Items
Language:
English.
Collection ID:
UA.29.02.0064
University Archives Record Group:
29 -- Papers of Faculty, Staff, and Associates
29 -- Papers of Faculty, Staff, and Associates > 02 -- Individuals

Background

Scope and content:

Major subjects include student papers on philosophy; department business; and notes on Hegel, Descartes, Clarence I. Lewis, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The collection contains correspondence, student papers, departmental minutes, lecture notes, research notes, and grant proposals.

Biographical / historical:

Born June 20, 1918 in Roslyn, Wash., William Bernard Peach was educated at Whitman College (B.A., 1940), at the University of California, Berkeley, (1940-41), and at Harvard University (M.A., 1949; Ph.D., 1951). Peach came to Duke University as an instructor in the Department of Philosophy (1951-1952). He was an assistant professor (1952-1957), and associate professor (1957-1963). Peach became a professor of philosophy (1963) and an emeritus professor.

Peach received a number of awards and honors during his career. He was a Guggenheim Fellow (1957-58) and a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1972-73; 1983). Peach received a grant from the American Philosophical Society (1958-59), and was awarded a Doctor of Humanities from Whitman College (1980). Peach became an emeritus professor of philosophy at Duke University.

Peach's writings include: (Editor), Illustrations on the Moral Sense, (1971); (Editor) Richard Price and the Ethical Foundations of the American Revolution: Selections From His Pamphlets, (1979). (Editor with D. O. Thomas), The Correspondence of Richard Price, Duke University Press, (Volume I,1983; Volume III, 1988). Peach was also a contributor to a number of philosophy journals.

Peach married Alice Mary Barber on December 2, 1940, and had four children.

Acquisition information:
The Bernard Peach Papers were received by the University Archives as a transfer in 1989 (A89-0050) and in 1992 (A92-27; A92-107).
Processing information:

Processed by Linda Daniel

Completed March, 2004

This collection is partially processed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

Encoded by Linda Daniel, March 2004

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[Identification of item], Bernard Peach Papers, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.