Typescript essay titled 'Philosophy And Biology: Essay submitted for the Arnold Gerstenberg Prize, 1929.', 1929
Scope and Contents
Typescript accompanied by a copy of letter dated 20 September 1973 from Waddington to Dr Derek Burns, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex, suggesting that Burns might like to publish it in Radical Philosophy along with a new introduction from Waddington.
Dates
- Creation: 1929
Creator
- From the Series: Waddington, Conrad Hal, 1905-1975 (embryologist and professor of animal genetics, University of Edinburgh) (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Open, subject to the researcher completing a Data Protection undertaking form wherever noted.
Biographical / Historical
Waddington was awarded the Arnold Gerstenberg Prize 'for the encouragement of the study of philosophy among students of natural science', in 1929 for a thesis titled 'The Vitalist-Mechanist Controversy'. It is not known if this essay is related.
The essay was written, in Waddington's words 'about [A.N.] Whitehead and Biology'. The philosopher A.N. Whitehead was one of Waddington's formative influences, and he was to retain an interest in him all his life. Although the essay was written in 1929, it appears likely that this version of the typescript was printed much later, most likely around the time that Waddington's accompanying letter to Dr Derek Burns was written in 1973. It does not appear that the essay was, after all, reprinted in Radical Philosophy.
Full Extent
66 pages
Physical Location
CLX-A-1020
Repository Details
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