Drew Hyland papers
Abstract
The Drew Hyland papers include correspondence, manuscripts, news clippings, conference and symposia materials, as well as lecture notes, syllabi, and course work from classes taught at Trinity College and other institutions. Also includes Hyland's Ph.D. dissertation. Includes paper and digital formats.
Dates
- Creation: 1980-2020
Conditions Governing Access
Nearly all of series 1 of this collection is open to the public and must be used in the John M.K. Davis Reading Room of the Watkinson Library, Trinity College Library, Hartford, Connecticut. One folder contains private email correspondence which has been restricted. Series 2 has some folders which have a 25-year access restriction due to privacy issues. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws when using this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
Digital surrogates may be provided to researchers, in accordance with the duplication policy of the Watkinson Library. Digital access to the electronic records in Series 2 will be provided through the (Trinity College) Digital Archives infrastructure.
Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs unless otherwise specified. It is the researcher's responsibility to secure permission to publish materials from the appropriate copyright holder.
Archival materials may contain sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal and/or state right to privacy laws or other regulations. While we make a good faith effort to identify and remove such materials, some may be missed during processing. If a researcher finds sensitive personal information (e.g. social security numbers) in a collection, please bring it to the attention of the reading room staff.
Biographical / Historical
Drew A. Hyland came to Trinity in 1967 after having begun his teaching career at the University of Toronto in 1964. He is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus. He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1961 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1963 and 1965, respectively. He also taught graduate courses at Boston University and the New School for Social Research.
His scholarly and teaching interests include Ancient Greek Philosophy, 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Sport, and Philosophy of Art. He is the author of numerous articles and a number of books, including Finitude and Transcendence in the Platonic Dialogues; Philosophy of Sport; The Question of Play; Questioning Platonism: Continental Interpreters of Plato; and Plato and the Question of Beauty.
His teaching philosophy arises out of a deep commitment to the Socratic teaching that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” The intense and passionate examination of core philosophic texts in class is preparation for an intense and passionate examination of the core issues of our lives. That examination means that the fundamental standpoint of philosophy, and therefore of teaching, is questioning. In 1990 he was the recipient of Trinity’s Brownell Prize for excellence in teaching, and in 2010 he received the Trustee Award for Faculty Excellence. He retired from Trinity in June 2015.
Extent
2 Cubic Feet (2 archival storage boxes with legal size file folders) ; 1 box (16.25 in. x 13 in. x 10.5 in.) equals 1 cubic foot ("cubic foot" defined in SAA Dictionary)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Folders are not in alphabetical order. They may be in original order, except for two folders "Postlude and Prelude" (Bx 2, folder 43) and "Toward a Communication on Play and Being" (Bx 2, folder 44), which were found by the College Archivist in February 2022 and added to the end of folders related to Hyland's classes and research.
Separated Materials
A copy of Is a science of man possible? A seminar conducted by the Department of Philosophy of Trinity College, and two issues of the Trinity Reporter (November 1976 and Spring 2007), were separated and placed with the Watkinson Library's Trinitiana collection.
Processing Information
In fall 2019 and early spring 2020, Watkinson student assistants relabeled items on paper and placed them within acid-free folders. In spring 2022, an assessment of all materials was made by the College Archivist, who determined that intellectual content appraisal and deaccessioning of some materials that fell out of scope were necessary. As a result, in October 2022, graded and ungraded student papers, class rosters, trip itineraries, airplane boarding passes, hotel receipts, routine conference information, and emails relating to trip planning, as well as over 290 digital Microsoft files containing personal photos, letters of recommendation, and reappointment recommendation letters for students and faculty, were returned to creator-donor Drew Hyland via postal mail.
In September 2022, the digital materials were preserved digitally by the Digital Archivist.
- Title
- Guide to the Drew Hyland papers
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Watkinson Library student assistants
- Date
- 2021-09-28
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- 2022-11-07: Digital Archivist Amanda Matava wrote the Bio/Historical Note for the Trinity's digital Community Collections (JSTOR), reproduced here.
Repository Details
Part of the Trinity College Archives Repository
Watkinson Library
300 Summit St.
Hartford CT 06106 USA