This latest installment provides a list of Albert Wohlstetter’s works written prior to February 1951, when Albert first joined the RAND Corporation. Although this list isn’t comprehensive, it does give a good sense of the sorts of things that interested him as a graduate student in New York City, years before he would enter the world of strategy. At any rate, you’d be hard-pressed to find something like this — outside of the register for his private papers, of course. Enjoy.
Albert Wohlstetter’s Pre-RAND Writings (1936-1940)
- Albert Wohlstetter, “The Structure of Proposition and the Fact,” Philosophy of Science, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 1936), pp. 167-184. Available online via JSTOR (login or purchase required).
- Albert Wohlstetter, Language and Empiricism, MA thesis, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, June 1937.
- Roberta Morgan and Albert Wohlstetter, “Observations on ‘Prufrock’,” Harvard Advocate, Vol. 85, No. 3 (December 1938), pp. 27-40.
- Albert Wohlstetter and M[orton]. G[abriel]. White, “Who Are the Friends of Semantics?” Partisan Review, Vol. 6. No. 5 (Fall 1939), pp. 50-57.
- Albert Wohlstetter, “Review of J. H. Woodger, The Technique of Theory Construction,” Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 1940), pp. 23-24. Available online via JSTOR (login or purchase required).
- Albert Wohlstetter, “Review of Maria Kokoszyńska, Bemerkungen über die Einheitswissenschaft; Otto Neurath, Zu den Vorträgen von Black, Kokoszyńska, Williams; and Arne Ness, Zum Vortrag von Kokoszyńska über Einheitswissenschaft,” Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 1940), p. 25. Available online via JSTOR (login or purchase required).
- Albert Wohlstetter, “Review of Paul Herz, Sprache und Logik,” Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 5. No. 1 (March 1940), p. 26. Available online via JSTOR (login or purchase required).
- Albert Wohlstetter, “Review of Justus Buchler, Charles Peirce’s Empiricism,” Isis, Vol. 32, No. 2 (April 1940), pp. 399-403. Available online via JSTOR (login or purchase required).
