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JCPP/Bronowski/Bronowski/5/1/20
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'The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination' Silliman Memorial Lectures at Yale University (Oct-Nov 1967)
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- 1966-1968 (Creation)
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6 files
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(1908 - 1974)
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Comprises material relating to a series of 6 lectures delivered by Bronowski entitled: 'The Mind as an Instrument for Understanding' (24 Oct); 'The Evolution of Power of Symbolic Language' (26 Oct); 'Knowledge as Algorithm and as Metaphor' (31 Oct); 'The Laws of Nature and the Nature of Laws' (2 Nov); 'Error, Progress and the Concept of Time' (7 Nov); and 'Law and Individual Responsibility' (9 Nov).
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See Bronowski 4/3/11 and 5/6/2 for further material relating to 'The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination' Silliman Memorial lectures.
Publication note
The lectures were published as a book with the title 'The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination' by Yale University Press, 1978.