Item K/PP178/9/1/1 - Reference material on science and philosophy, 1901-1975

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K/PP178/9/1/1

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Reference material on science and philosophy, 1901-1975

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  • 1901 - 1975 (Creation)

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Photocopy articles relating to science and philosophy, including: extracts from Evolution and ethics, and other essays, by Thomas Huxley (Macmillan, London, 1901); printed lecture by Karl Popper, ‘Science: conjectures and refutations’, 1953; printed lecture by J W S Pringle, ‘The two biologies’, 1963.  Also typescript texts of talks and articles by David Bohm: ‘Science as perception-communication’, 1969; ‘Fragmentation and wholeness’, 1972; ‘An inquiry into the function of language and thought’, 1971; ‘On the subjectivity and objectivity of knowledge’, 1973; ‘On the intuitive understanding of non-locality as implied by quantum theory’, by David Bohm and B Hiley, (subsequently published in Foundations of Physics, 1975)

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A significant portion of the collection items are available online in the Maurice Wilkins and Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit archive hosted by the Wellcome Library.

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