Note: In this article, the following book abbreviations are employed (all by Findlay unless otherwise indicated):

Primary Sources

Note: archival materials including lecture notes, letters, and manuscripts are stored at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.

Books by Findlay

• 1933, Meinong’s Theory of Objects, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (original title)
  • [M] 1963, Meinong’s Theory of Objects and Values, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (expanded title) (Scholar)
• 1958, Hegel: A Re-examination, London: Allen and Unwin.
  • 1969, Spanish translation, Re-examen de Hegel, Barcelona.
  • 1972, Italian translation, Hegel Oggi, Milan: Instituto Librario.
• [VI] 1961, Values and Intentions: A Study in Value-theory and Philosophy of Mind, London: Allen and Unwin and New York: Macmillan.
• [LMV] 1963, Language, Mind, and Value: Philosophical Essays, London: Allen and Unwin and New York: Humanities Press.
• [DC] 1966, The Discipline of the Cave, London: Allen and Unwin
  • 1969, Spanish translation, La Disciplina de la Caverna, Madrid: Gredo.
• [TC] 1967, The Transcendence of the Cave, London: Allen and Unwin.
  • 1969, Spanish translation, La Transcendencia de la Caverna, Madrid: Gredo.
• [AE] 1970, Axiological Ethics, London: Macmillan.
• 1972, Psyche and Cerebrum, Aquinas lecture, Milwaukee: Marquette University Press.
• [AA] 1970, Ascent to the Absolute: Metaphysical Papers and Lectures, London: Allen and Unwin. New York: Humanities Press, 1974.
• 1974, Plato: The Written and the Unwritten Doctrines, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul and New York: Humanities Press.
• 1976, Plato and Platonism, New York: New York Times Book.
• 1981, Kant and the Transcendental Object, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• [W] 1984, Wittgenstein: A Critique, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Articles by Findlay

• 1936, “Relational properties”, The Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, 14: 176–90 (Scholar)
• 1940, “Some Reactions to Recent Cambridge Philosophy (I)”, Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, 18(3): 193–211; reprinted LMV: ch 1. doi:10.1080/00048404008541153 (Scholar)
• 1941a, “Some Reactions to Recent Cambridge Philosophy (II)”, Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, 19(1): 1–13; reprinted LMV: ch 1. doi:10.1080/00048404108541503 (Scholar)
• 1941b, “Time: A Treatment of Some Puzzles”, Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, 19(3): 216–235; reprinted LMV: 39–56 (ch 2). doi:10.1080/00048404108541170 (Scholar)
• 1942, “Goedelian Sentences: A Non-Numerical Approach”, Mind, 51(203): 259–265; reprinted in LMV: ch 3. doi:10.1093/mind/li.203.259 (Scholar)
• 1944, “Morality by Convention”, Mind, 53(210): 142–169; reprinted LMV: ch 4. doi:10.1093/mind/liii.210.142 (Scholar)
• 1945, “On Mind and Our Knowledge of It”, Philosophy, 20(77): 206–226. (Scholar)
• 1948a, “Can God’s Existence Be Disproved?”, Mind, 57(226): 176–183; reprinted LMV: 96–105 (ch 5). doi:10.1093/mind/lvii.226.176 (Scholar)
• 1948b, “Recommendations Regarding the Language of Introspection”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 9(2): 212–236; reprinted in Clarity Is Not Enough: Essays in Criticism of Linguistic Philosophy, Hywel David Lewis (ed.), London: Allen & Unwin, 1963, ch. 15. doi:10.2307/2103390 (Scholar)
• 1949a, “God’s Non-existence: A Reply to Mr. Rainer and Mr. Hughes”, Mind, 58: 352–354. (Scholar)
• 1949b, part 3 of “Symposium: Is There Knowledge by Acquaintance?”, H. L. A. Hart, G. E. Hughes, and J. N. Findlay, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 23: 111–128. doi:10.1093/aristoteliansupp/23.1.69 (Scholar)
• 1950a, “Linguistic Approach to Psycho-physics”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 50: 43–64; reprinted LMV: ch 7. doi:10.1093/aristotelian/50.1.43 (Scholar)
• 1950b, “Values in Speaking”, Philosophy, 25(92): 20–39; reprinted in LMV: 105–128 (ch 6). doi:10.1017/s0031819100007774 (Scholar)
• 1952, “Probability Without Nonsense”, The Philosophical Quarterly, 2(8): 218–239. doi:10.2307/2960096 (Scholar)
• 1953a, part 1 of “Symposium: The Notion of Infinity”, J. N. Findlay, C. Lewy, and S. Körner, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 27: 21–44; reprinted in LMV: ch 8. doi:10.1093/aristoteliansupp/27.1.21 (Scholar)
• 1953b, “On Having In Mind”, Philosophy, 28: 291–310. (Scholar)
• 1954, “The Justification of Attitudes”, Mind, 63(250): 145–161; reprinted LMV: ch 9. doi:10.1093/mind/lxiii.250.145 (Scholar)
• 1955, “The Logic of Bewusstseinslagen”, The Philosophical Quarterly, 5(18): 57–68; reprinted in LMV: ch 10. doi:10.2307/2217046 (Scholar)
• 1956a, “An Examination of Tenses”, in Contemporary British Philosophy, H. D. Lewis (ed.), London: Allen and Unwin, pp. 165–189. (Scholar)
• 1956b, “Some Merits of Hegelianism: The Presidential Address”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 56: 1–24. doi:10.1093/aristotelian/56.1.1 (Scholar)
• 1957 [1961], “The Structure of the Kingdom of Ends”, Henrietta Hertz Lecture, read at the British Academy, 20 March 1957; reprinted as appendix in Values and Intentions [VI].
• 1959a [1963], “The Contemporary Relevance of Hegel”, Colloquium on Contemporary British Philosophy in London, 1959. Printed in LMV: ch 13. (Scholar)
• 1959b, “Some Reflections on Meaning”, Indian Journal of Philosophy, vol. I, issue 1 (August); reprinted in LMV: ch 12. (Scholar)
• 1960, “Some Neglected Issues in the Philosophy of G. E. Moore”, Presented to the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club and the Royal Institute of Philosophy, 1960; reprinted in LMV: ch 14 and in G.E. Moore, Essays in Retrospect, Alice Ambrose and Morris Lazerowitz (eds.), London: Allen and Unwin, 1970, pp. 64–79. (Scholar)
• 1961a, “The Methodology of Normative Ethics”:, Journal of Philosophy, 58(24): 757–764; reprinted in LMV: ch 15. doi:10.2307/2023601 (Scholar)
• 1961b, part 2 of “Use, Usage and Meaning”, Gilbert Ryle and J. N. Findlay, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 35: 231–242; reprinted in Clarity Is Not Enough: Essays in Criticism of Linguistic Philosophy, Hywel David Lewis (ed.), London: Allen & Unwin., 1963, ch 19; reprinted in The Theory of Meaning, G.H.R. Parkinson (ed.), London: Oxford University Press, 1968, ch 5. doi:10.1093/aristoteliansupp/35.1.223 (Scholar)
• 1961c, “L’Actualite de Hegel”, Archives de philosophie, 24(3/4): 480–496 (Scholar)
• 1962, “The Teaching of Meaning”, Logique et Analyse, (Thinking and Meaning: Entretiens d’Oxford 1962), 5(20): 169–172; reprinted in AA: ch 4. (Scholar)
• 1963, “Metaphysics and Affinity”:, Monist, 47(2): 159–187; reprinted in AA: ch 7. doi:10.5840/monist196347212 (Scholar)
• 1964a, “The Diremptive Tendencies of Western Philosophy”, Philosophy East and West, 14(2): 167–178; reprinted in AA: ch 9. doi:10.2307/1396984 (Scholar)
• 1964b, “Freedom and Value”, in Memorias Del XIII Congreso Internacional de Filosofía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 7: 285–290. Conference held Mexico City, 1963; reprinted in AA: ch 6. doi:10.5840/wcp131964vii145 (Scholar)
• 1964c, “Hegel’s Use of Teleology:”, Monist, 48(1): 1–17; reprinted in AA: ch 8. doi:10.5840/monist19644811 (Scholar)
• 1967a, “Essential Probabilities”, in Phenomenology in America: Studies in the Philosophy of Experience, James M. Edie (ed.), Chicago: Quadrangle Books; reprinted in AA: ch 11. (Scholar)
• 1967b, “The Logic of Mysticism”, Religious Studies, 2(2): 145–162; reprinted in AA: ch 10. doi:10.1017/s0034412500002717 (Scholar)
• 1967c, “The Logic of Ultimates”, The Journal of Philosophy, 64(19): 571–583; reprinted in AA: ch 11. doi:10.2307/2024534 (Scholar)
• 1967d [1972], “The Perspicuous and the Poignant: Two Aesthetic Fundamentals”, The British Journal of Aesthetics, 7(1): 3–19; reprinted in Aesthetics, Harold Osborne (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. doi:10.1093/bjaesthetics/7.1.3 (Scholar)
• 1968 [1969], “The Systematic Unity of Value”:, in Akten Des XIV. Internationalen Kongresses Für Philosophie, Herder & Co, 4:155–161. Congress held in Vienna, 1968; reprinted in AA: ch 13. doi:10.5840/wcp1419694153 (Scholar)
• 1970a, “Hegel und die Physik”, in Stuttgarter Hegel-Tage, Hans-Georg Gadamer (ed.), (Hegel-Studien, Beiheft 11), Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 111–116. (Scholar)
• 1970b [1974], “Kant and Anglo-Saxon Criticism”, in Kant’s Theory of Knowledge: Selected Papers from the Third International Kant Congress, Rochester, NY, 1970, Lewis White Beck (ed.), Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 187–207. doi:10.1007/978-94-010-2294-1_19 (Scholar)
• 1970c, “Towards a Neo-neo-Platonism”, in The Future of Metaphysics, Robert E. Wood (ed.), Chicago: Quadrangle Books. Papers from a conference held at Catholic University, Washington, DC, in the summer of 1969; reprinted in AA: ch 15. (Scholar)
• 1972, “Einige Hauptpunkte in Meinongs Philosophischer Psychologie”, in Jenseits von Sein und Nichtsein: Beiträge zur Meinong-Forschung, Rudolf Haller (ed.), Graz: Akademische Verlagsanstalt. Conference held Graz, 1970. (Scholar)
• 1973a, “Hegel and the Philosophy of Physics”, in The Legacy of Hegel: Proceedings of the Marquette Hegel Symposium 1970, J. J. O’Malley, K. W. Algozin, H. P. Kainz, and L. C. Rice (eds.), Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 72–89. doi:10.1007/978-94-010-2434-1_6 (Scholar)
• 1973b, “Meinong the Phenomenologist”, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 27(104/105 (2/3)): 161–177; reprinted, 1975, in Dialogues in Phenomenology, Don Ihde and Richard M. Zaner (eds.), Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 117–135. doi:10.1007/978-94-010-1615-5_7 (Scholar)
• [EQ], 1973c [1985], “My Encounters with Wittgenstein”, The Philosophical Forum, 4(2): 167–185; reprinted in SF: 52–69. Citations from the original.
• 1974, “Hegelianism and Platonism”, Hegel and the History of Philosophy: Proceedings of the 1972 Hegel Society of America Conference, Joseph J.O’Malley, K.W.Algozin, and Frederick G.Weiss (eds.), The Hague: Nijhoff. (Scholar)
• 1975a, “Husserl’s Analysis of The Inner Time-Consciousness:”, Monist, 59(1): 3–20. doi:10.5840/monist19755916 (Scholar)
• 1975b, “Phenomenology and the Meaning of Realism”, in Phenomenology and Philosophical Understanding, Edo Pivčević (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 143–158. (Scholar)
• 1975c, “The Rationality of Mysticism”, in Contemporary Studies in Philosophical Idealism, John Howie (ed.), Cape Cod, MA: Claude Stark and Co. (Scholar)
• 1975d, “Religion and Its Three Paradigmatic Instances”, Religious Studies, 11(2): 215–227. doi:10.1017/s0034412500008362 (Scholar)
• 1975e, “The Three Hypostases of Platonism”, The Review of Metaphysics, 28(4): 660–680. (Scholar)
• 1976a, “Mind under the Editorship of David Hamlyn”, Mind, 85(337): 57–68. doi:10.1093/mind/lxxxv.337.57 (Scholar)
• 1976b, “The Neoplatonism of Plato”, in The Significance of Neoplatonism, R. Baine Harris (ed.), (Studies in Neoplatonism, 1), Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 23–40. (Scholar)
• 1977, “Ordinary, revisionary, and dialectical strategies in philosophy: a plea for the re-introduction of a logic of aspects”, Erkenntnis, 11: 275–290. (Scholar)
• 1978a [1982], “Why Christians Should be Platonists”, Neoplatonism and Christian Thought, Dominic J. O’Meara (ed.), Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Conference held Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, October 1978. (Scholar)
• 1978b, “Time and Eternity”, The Review of Metaphysics, 32(1): 3–14. (Scholar)
• 1980a, “The Myths of Plato”, in Myth, Symbol, and Reality, Alan M. Olson (ed.), Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame Press. (Scholar)
• 1980b, “Ethics as an Art” (Boston University lecture), manuscript in Boston University Library. (Scholar)
• 1981a, “Confessions of Theory and Life”, in Transcendence and the Sacred, ed. A.M. Olson & L.S. Rouner, Notre Dame & London: University of Notre Dame Press, pp. 176–92. (Scholar)
• 1981b, “The Logical Peculiarities of Neoplatonisn”, in The Structure of Being: A Neoplatonic Approach, R. Baine Harris (ed.), (Studies in Neoplatonism, 4), Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1–10. (Scholar)
• 1981c, “Thoughts on the Gnosis of St. John”, Religious Studies, 17(4): 441–450. (Scholar)
• 1982a, “Dialectic as Metabasis”, in Konzepte der Dialektik, Frankfurt: Klostermann. (Scholar)
• 1982b, “The Impersonality of God”, in God, the Contemporary Discussion, Frederick Sontag & M. Darrol Bryant (eds.), Los Angeles: Rose of Sharon Press. Conference, December 1981, Maui, Hawaii. (Scholar)
• 1982c, “An Ontology of Senses”, The Journal of Philosophy, 79(10): 545–551. (Scholar)
• 1984a, “The Hegelian Treatment of Biology and Life”, in Hegel and the Sciences (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 64), Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky (eds.), Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
• 1984b, “Identity and Identification”, Religious Studies, 20(1): 55–62. (Scholar)
• [ML] 1985, “My Life: 1903–1973”, in SF: 1–51.

Nachlass

• 2005a, “Philosophy as a Discipline”, The Philosophical Forum, 36(2): 141–148. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9191.2005.00196.x (Scholar)
• 2005b, “Aristotle and Eideticism”, The Philosophical Forum, 36(4): 349–365. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9191.2005.00209.x (Scholar)
• 2006a, “Aristotle and Eideticism II”, The Philosophical Forum, 37(3): 333–386, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9191.2006.00244.x (Scholar)
• 2006b, “Notes on Spinoza and Absolute Theory”, The Philosophical Forum, 37(4): 427–437, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9191.2006.00246.x (Scholar)
• 2007a, “Notes on Plato’s Timaeus”, The Philosophical Forum, 38(2): 159–171, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9191.2007.00261.x (Scholar)
• 2007b, “Notes on Kant’s Prolegomena”, The Philosophical Forum, 38(3): 289–308, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9191.2007.00268.x (Scholar)
• 2007c, “Hegel’s Philosophy: The Logic”, The Philosophical Forum, 38(4): 387–459, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9191.2007.00276.x (Scholar)
• 2008, “Wittgenstein and His Tractatus”, The Philosophical Forum, 39(1): 85–94, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9191.2007.00283.x (Scholar)
• 2018, “Notes on the Ideen of Husserl”, The Philosophical Forum, 49(3): 283–307, doi:10.1111/phil.12193 (Scholar)

Translations and Prefaces

• 1970, translation of Logical Investigations (Logische Untersuchungen), by Edmund Husserl, with an introduction by J.N. Findlay, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• 1970, foreword to Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature, A.V. Miller (trans.), Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• 1971, foreword to Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind, William Wallace and A.V. Miller (trans.), Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• 1975, foreword to Hegel’s Logic, William Wallace (trans.), Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• 1977, analysis and foreword to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, A.V. Miller (trans.), Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)

Other Cited Primary Sources

• Bergson, Henri, 1907, L’Évolution créatrice, Paris: Félix Alcan. Translated as Creative Evolution, Arthur Mitchell (trans.), New York: Henry Holt, 1911.
• Bartley, W.W., 1985, Wittgenstein, second edition, Chicago: Open Court. First edition 1973. (Scholar)
• Bradley, F.H., 1893, Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay, London: George Allen & Unwin. (Scholar)
• Ehrenfels, Christoph von, 1916, Kosmogonie, Jena: Diederichs. (Scholar)
• Hare, R. M., 1952, The Language of Morals, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0198810776.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1830, Hegel’s Logic: Being Part One of the ‘Encyclopedia of The Philosophical Science’ (1830), William Wallace (trans.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1873. (Scholar)
• Hume, David, 1738, A Treatise of Human Nature, London: John Noon. (Scholar)
• Husserl, Edmund, 1891, Philosophie der Arithmetik. Psychologische und logische untersuchungen (Philosophy of Arithmetic), Halle-Saale: C. E. M. Pfeffer. (Scholar)
• –––, 1900–1901, Logische Untersuchungen, two volumes, Halle: Max Niemeyer. Second edition, two volumes, 1913 and 1921. (Scholar)
• –––, 1913, Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie, I. Buch, Allgemeine Einführung in die reine Phänomenologie. (Scholar)
• –––, 1939, Erfahrung und Urteil (Experience and Judgment), Prague: Academia-Verlag. (Scholar)
• Jakobsen, David, 2021, “In What Sense Is J.N. Findlay the Founding Father of Tense Logic?” History and Philosophy of Logic, 42(2): 180–188. (Scholar)
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• –––, 1917 [1959], “The Conception of Reality”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 18: 101–120; reprinted in his Philosophical Studies, New York: Humanities Press, 1959. doi:10.1093/aristotelian/18.1.101 (Scholar)
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• Bertocci, Peter, 1985, “The Essence of a Person”, in SF: 362–377. (Scholar)
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