Catalogue of the P. J. FitzPatrick Papers

Reference code: GB-0034-UC/P54
Title: P. J. FitzPatrick Papers
Dates of creation: [1966]-2004
Extent: 4 boxes
Held by: Ushaw College Library
Origination: Patrick James FitzPatrick
Language: English, with some Greek and Latin

Biography

Dr. Patrick (Paddy) James FitzPatrick (1929-2017) was a Catholic priest and philosopher. He was educated at Ushaw College, Durham and the Gregorian University in Rome, from which he received a Licence in Theology in 1953. He was awarded a PhD by the University of Louvain in 1955 for a thesis entitled ‘A Study in Modal Logic’ and returned to Ushaw as Lecturer in Philosophy in 1956. From 1961 to 1969 he worked in a parish in Hartlepool, teaching part-time at Constantine Technical College, Middlesbrough (latterly Teesside University) and the University of Durham. FitzPatrick then became a lecturer in Durham’s Department of Philosophy, and was promoted to a Readership in Philosophy in 1977. Between 1981 and 1989 he served as the University’s Public Orator, and in 1999 he was made Reader Emeritus. In March 2004, Fr. FitzPatrick was charged with historic sexual assault offences committed while in Hartlepool in the 1960s, and sentenced to 30 months in prison. He died in 2017.

The items in this collection are predominantly research and lecture notes, largely from FitzPatrick's time as a lecturer at the Philosophy Department at Durham. They reflect his interests in formal logic, the history of philosophy and mathematics, and chronology. Other materials relate to his activies as a Catholic priest in the North East of England.

Accession details

Presented to Ushaw College upon the death of P. J. FitzPatrick.

Previous custodial history

Private collection.

Conditions of access

Open for consultation.

Copyright and copying

Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from pg.library@durham.ac.uk and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material

Arrangement

A. Research and Teaching
B. Priest's papers
C. Personal papers

Appraisal

Clean duplicates and photocopies of material found in Durham University or other collections have been removed. These materials included:
Bonaventura Cavalieri, Geometria indivisibilibus continuorum noua quadam ratione promota, pp.1-9, 112-113, 126-131, 156-157, 160-161. Copy identified as Ushaw XV.E.7.5
John Napier, Mirifici Logarithmorum descriptio pp. 1-23, 56-57. Previously held by the Literary & Philosophical Society, Newcastle
Durham University Library, Natural Science in Europe Before & After 1665 (1965), UND/EA2/12/1965A
A.J. Ayer, “Pragmatism and logic”, Times Literary Supplement, no. 3580 (Friday 9th October 1970), pp. 1149-1151. Available online: https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200368424/TLSH?u=duruni&sid=bookmark-TLSH&xid=d327e3b9
M. F. Burnyeat, “Cracking the Socrates Case” review of I. F. Stone, The Trial of Socrates, The New York Review, Vol. 35 (1988)
P. J. FitzPatrick, “The Legacy of Socrates”, in Socratic Questions, ed. Gower & Stokes (1992)
Paul Oskar Kristeller, “Thomism & the Italian Thought of the Renaissance”, Medieval Aspects of Renaissance Learning (1974), pp. 67-79
Hao Wang, “Toward Mechanical Mathematics”, IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 4, no. 1 (Jan. 1960), pp. 2-22, reprinted in Wang, A Survey of Mathematical Logic (Amsterdam, 1963). Original article available online: https://doi.org/10.1147/rd.41.0002
Michael J. White, “Aristotle on ‘Time’ and ‘A Time’”, Apeiron vol. 22, no. 3 (1989), pp. 207-224. Available online: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40913609

Accruals

No further accruals expected.

Bibliography

University of Durham Gazette Vol. XVI, No. 2, 31st July 1969, p. 3. http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/DU_Gazettes/DUGazette16_2/dg162METS.xml
University of Durham Gazette Vol. XXIII, 31st January 1978, p. 6. http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/DU_Gazettes/DUGazette23/dg23METS.xml
‘Obituary: Patrick Fitzpatrick’, Sunderland Echo, 13th May 2017: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sunderlandecho-uk/obituary.aspx?n=patrick-fitzpatrick&pid=185376650

Catalogue

A. Research and Teaching
Reference: UC/P54/A

(1) Logic
Reference: UC/P54/A1

UC/P54/A1/1 September 1995
Typescript textbook by P. J. FitzPatrick: “Logic for First Year, in usum auditorum”
1 volume

UC/P54/A1/2 1966 - 1984
5 offprints of P. J. FitzPatrick's published essays and articles, with 1 conference programme:
6 printed items

UC/P54/A1/2a July 1966
“To Gödel via Babel”, Mind: a Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, vol. LXXV, no. 299 (July 1966)
pp. 332-350

UC/P54/A1/2b January 1973
“An Extension of Venn Diagrams”, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol. XIV, n. 1 (January 1973)
pp. 77-89

UC/P54/A1/2c 29 August - 4 September 1977
Programme: “Second International Wittgenstein Society Symposium”
pp. 1-15

UC/P54/A1/2d 1978
“Eine komische Bemerkung H. Newmans”, Wittgenstein and his Impact on Contemporary Thought, Proceedings of the 2nd International Wittgenstein Symposium (Vienna, 1978)
pp. 43-45

UC/P54/A1/2e June 1984
“A Plea for Opacity”, The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. LXXXIV (June 1984)
pp. 211-222

UC/P54/A1/2f 1984
Review of Leibniz by G. Macdonald Ross (publication unknown, 1984)
pp. 110-112

UC/P54/A1/3a-d [1970 x 2000]
Research notes dedicated to the philosophy of Wittgenstein, concerned with the latter's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations, and the Rule-Following Problem;
4 files

UC/P54/A1/4 [1970 x 2000]
Unpublished essays on logic by P.J. FitzPatrick:
4 files

UC/P54/A1/4a [1970 x 2000]
“On Methods of Wang”, handwritten essay, p. 14 wanting, with photocopy of pp. 14-45
45 pages

UC/P54/A1/4b [1970 x 2000]
“A Question of Scopes in Definite Descriptions”
9 pages

UC/P54/A1/4c [1970 x 2000]
“An Account of Tarski's 'The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages'”
18 pages

UC/P54/A1/4d [1970 x 2000]
“The Deduction-Theorem for PL, Shewn by an Example”
8 pages

UC/P54/A1/4e [1970 x 2000]
“Notes on Propositional Logic”
69 pages

UC/P54/A1/5 [1970 x 2000]
Teaching and research notes on logic
4 files

UC/P54/A1/5a [1970 x 2000]
Teaching notes on Logic with Trees by Colin Howson
1 file

UC/P54/A1/5b [1970 x 2000]
Research notes on Gödel and logic
1 file

UC/P54/A1/5c [1970 x 2000]
Fragmentary notes on logic
1 file

UC/P54/A1/5d 1996 - 2000
Typed copy of address to Durham Students’ Philosophical Conference (1996), ‘Introduction to Logic’ student exam answers (1999); ‘Introduction to Logic’ Examination paper (2000)
1 file

UC/P54/A1/5e [1970 x 2000]
Notes and images for lecturing on logic
1 file

UC/P54/A1/6 [1975 x 1985]
Writing on logic by others
1 file

UC/P54/A1/6a [1975]
“Logical Form and Formal Logic”, unpublished paper, possibly by Neil Tennant
12 pages

UC/P54/A1/6b [1985]
Typescript copy of “Natural Deduction and Arbitrary Objects” by Kit Fine, apparently sent by the author
45 pages

UC/P54/A1/6c February 1984
Part of a handwritten letter from Nigel Martin, discussing Venn Diagrams
1 page

(2) Classical Greek Philosophy
Reference: UC/P54/A2

UC/P54/A2/1a-d [1970 x 2000]
Four spiral notebooks, containing notes primarily on Classical Greek philosophy, but also encompassing history of mathematics, service plans and a previous attempt to catalogue some of FitzPatrick’s material.
4 notebooks

UC/P54/A2/2 [1988 x 1992]
Material relating to Socrates and the history of reception in Europe; originally a lecture to Durham students in 1988, it was published as “The Legacy of Socrates” in Socratic Questions, ed. Gower & Stokes (London: Routledge, 1992).
2 files

UC/P54/A2/2a [1989 x 1992]
Manuscript draft of “The Legacy of Socrates”
53 pages

UC/P54/A2/2b [1988 x 1992]
Typed pages and photographs relating to “Socrates' Legacy”
1 file

UC/P54/A2/3 [1970 x 2000]
Writing and notes on Plato's Sophist
1 file

UC/P54/A2/3a [1970 x 2000]
Typescript essay “Plato's Sophist”
46 pages

UC/P54/A2/3b [1970 x 2000]
Typescript “Temporary notes on the 'Digression' in the Sophist”
13 pages

UC/P54/A2/3c [1970 x 2000]
“Scheme of Plato's Sophist”
8 pages

UC/P54/A2/4 [1970 x 2000]
Three successive drafts of typescript essay “Textus Aristotelis” with handwritten corrections and annotations
1 file

UC/P54/A2/5 [1970 x 2000]
Notes and writings on Aristotle, including “Post-script to Physics A7”; “Conspectus Aristotelicus”; “Some Remarks on Metaphysics Z3”
1 file

UC/P54/A2/6 [1970 x 2000]
Typescript “Schematic Points from Thaeatetus” with related handwritten notes
1 file

UC/P54/A2/7 [1970 x 2000]
Handwritten notes on Classical Greek Philosophy, including “Lecture after completion of Textus legendi in the Republic”
2 files

UC/P54/A2/8 [1970 x 2000]
Teaching and examination materials for Classical Greek philosophy
1 file

UC/P54/A2/9 1982
Photocopy of Rémi Brague, Du Temps chez Platon et Aristote: Quatre études, (Presses Universitaires de France: Paris, 1982) pp. 97-169
1 file

(3) Medieval Philosophy
Reference: UC/P54/A3

UC/P54/A3/1 [2002 x 2003]
Correspondence relating to, and successive drafts of, relating to the essay “Medieval Philosophy in Later Thought”, co-authored by FitzPatrick with John Haldane.
This was published in Arthur Stephen McGrade (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy(Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2003), pp. 300-327.
1 file

UC/P54/A3/2 [2002-2003]
Notes and photocopies from researches relating to “Medieval Philosophy in Later Thought”, especially regarding the works of Thomas Cajetan
1 file

(4) History of Mathematics
Reference: UC/P54/A4

UC/P54/A4/1 [1965 x 1975]
Handwritten notes and research materials on the history of mathematics, particularly logarithms, with notes on the work of John Napier, Henry Briggs, Bonaventure Cavalieri
5 files

UC/P54/A4/2 [1965 x 1975]
Handwritten notes and notebooks on Greek Mathematics, Geometry and the History of Science
2 files

UC/P54/A4/3 1980
Ian Mueller, Coping with Mathematics (The Greek Way), Morris Fishbein Centre for the Study of the History of Science and Medicine, No. 2, 1980
vi, 18 pages

UC/P54/A4/4 23 July - 7 August 1970
Correspondence from the Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Ltd, concerning a putative book on the History of Mathematics by FitzPatrick
2 pages

UC/P54/A4/5 [1965 x 1975]
Handwritten notes and research materials on mathematical history, possibly relating to FitzPatrick's proposed book
1 file

(5) Local History
Reference: UC/P54/A5

UC/P54/A5/1a 1999
Offprint: P. J. FitzPatrick, “Richard Dawes (1708-1766), Classical Scholar and Tynesider, Part 1”, Archaeologia Aeliana, Vol. 27 (1999), pp. 145-154
9 pages

UC/P54/A5/1b 2000
Offprint: P. J. FitzPatrick, “Richard Dawes (1708-1766), Classical Scholar and Tynesider, Part 2”, Archaeologia Aeliana, Vol. 28 (2000), pp. 205-213
7 pages

(6) Supervision and Consultation
Reference: UC/P54/A6

UC/P54/A6/1 24 April 1991
Full draft: “Naïve Metaphysics” by Geoffrey Klempner, sent to FitzPatrick by the author
3 printed booklets

UC/P54/A6/2 [1995 x 1996]
Photocopy: Michael Bakaoukas, “The Argument from Illusion in Gorgias’ On What is Not. A Criticism of Experience”, MSc thesis, University of Edinburgh (1994-1995)
Sent to PJF with note from Barry Stobbart, asking his advice on whether to accept a submission to ‘our journal’ [likely Philosophical Writings, published from 1996]
1 file

UC/P54/A6/3 [2000 x 2004]
Charles Wheeler, “A Degree in Philosophy”, sent with handwritten note to Prof. Knight, who presumably passed it on to FitzPatrick
Wheeler's text was later published as Basic Flying Instruction: A Comprehensive Introduction to Western Phillosophy (iUniverse: 2004)
3 files

(7) Chronology
Reference: UC/P54/A7

UC/P54/A7/1 [1999-2000]
Handwritten and typed drafts of a talk on the calculation of time, calendars and the millennium, titled variously “Millennium: Myth or Reality?”, “Dating the Millennium”, “Measuring the Millennium”
1 file

UC/P54/A7/2 2000
Notes and drafts for a talk on the calculation of time, calendars and leap years
1 file

B. Priest's Papers
Reference: UC/P54/B

(1) Sermons
Reference: UC/P54/B1

UC/P54/B1/1 [2000]
Text of a sermon “It is good for us to be here” on Mark 9:5, given at St Mary's, Sunderland
6 pages

UC/P54/B1/2 3 May 2002
Sermon preached at the Requiem Mass for Sister Angela at St Josoph's Home, Newcastle upon Tyne
3 pages

(2) Research notes
UC/P54/B2 [1956 x 2004]
1 file
Memo book and handwritten pages with various notes on church history and the Gospels

(3) Printed material
Reference: UC/P54/B3

UC/P54/B3/1 March 1985
New Blackfriars, vol. 66, no. 777 (March 1985)
This issue of New Blackfriars contains FitzPatrick's article “Once in Khartoum”
pp. 106-152

UC/P54/B3/2 21 November 1974
Declaration by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre condemning the Second Vatican Council and subsequent reforms
pp. 1-2

UC/P54/B3/3 [1967]
“Birth Regulation and a Catholic Reviewer: An Open Letter to the Revd J. F. MacDonald ...” by G. Egner
The letter is a response to Rev. MacDonald's review in the Catholic Gazette of Egner's 1966 book Birth Control and Catholic Belief: a study in problems and possibilities
pp. 1-15

(4) Correspondence
Reference: UC/P54/B4

UC/P54/B4/1 29 January 1990
Letter from Owen Swindlehurst relating the death of Mgr L. L. McReavy
1 page

C. Personal Papers
Reference: UC/P54/C

UC/P54/C1 [1970 x 2000]
Postcard with image of Madonna & Child with Saints Fabian and Sebasian, sent to FitzPatrick from “S” in Italy
1 postcard

UC/P54/C2 2 September 1996
Postcard with image of railway poster “Is Your Journey Really Necessary”
1 postcard