Two typescript essays titled 'Science as a Goal' and 'Evolutionary Advance and Human Ideals: a follow-on from last month's article on 'Science Ethics Religion', c.1942-1949
Scope and Contents
The 'Science As a Goal' typescript is signed 'C.H. Waddington', and contains handwritten corrections. 'Evolutionary Advance and Human Ideals' is unattributed. The file also contains letters from various individuals spanning the period 1942-1949, mainly concerning Waddington's book Science and Ethics, but also other intellectual matters, including an exchange of letters between Waddington and R.B Braithwaite, who had criticised some of Waddington's ideas. There is also a typescript essay with handwritten corrections titled 'Ethics, Evolution and Thermodynamics' by Stephen Toulmin, signed 'King's College, Cambridge, November 1944'.
Dates
- Creation: c.1942-1949
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's book Science and Ethics was published in 1942. 'Science as a Goal' was published in This Changing World: A Series of Contributions by Some of Our Leading Thinkers, to Cast Light Upon the Pattern of the Modern World, ed. J.R. Marcus Brumwell (Routledge, 1944).
Full Extent
1 folder
Physical Location
CLX-A-1020
Repository Details
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