File 39 - 'Chance and Creativity in Evolution' conference at Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, 9-16 September 1972

3 files (3 parts)

Comprises copies of papers by participants including 'Stratified Stability and the Evolution of Complexity' by Bronowski. Also includes a tentative schedule (conference was originally called 'The Problem of Reductionism in Biology') which did not include Bronowski as a speaker.

In addition to Bronowski's papers the file also contains: 'Chance and Creativity in Evolution' by Theodosius Dobzhansky (department of Genetics, University of California at Davis); 'Evolutionary Epistemology' and a draft of 'Unjustified Variation and Selective Retention in Scientific Discovery' by Donald T Campbell (department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Illinois); 'The Problem of Molecular Recognition by a Selective System' by Gerald M Edelman (The Rockefeller University, New York); 'Chance, Necessity and Purpose' by Charles Birch (school of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney); 'A Geometric Model of Reduction and Emergence' by Sir Peter Medawar; 'Changing Strategies: a comparison of reductionist attitudes in biological and medical research in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' by June Goodfield; 'Scientific Reduction and the Essential Incompleteness of All Science' by Karl Popper; 'Polynomistic Determination of Biological Processes' by Bernard Rensch (Zoologisches Institut, Universität Münster); 'Adaptive Shifts and Evolutionary Novelty: a compositionist approach' by G Ledyard Stebbins (department of Genetics, University of California at Davis); 'Reductionism in Biology' by W H Thorpe; 'From Aristotle to Democritus via Darwin: a short survey of a long historical and logical journey' by G Montalenti (Instituto di Genetica dell'Universita di Roma); 'The Concept of Biological Progress' by Francisco J Ayala (department of Genetics, University of California at Davis); 'Cerebral Activity and Consciousness' by John C Eccles (department of Physiology, school of Medicine, State University of New York, Buffalo); 'Problems of Rationality in Biology' by Henryk Skolimowski (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); 'On the Relations between Compositional and Evolutionary Theories' by Dudley Shapere and 'Reduction, Hierarchies, and Organicism by Morton Beckner (Pomona College, Claremont, California).

These files were originally in a ring binder.