File 131 - "Western Behavioural Sciences Institute"

Identity area

Reference code

JCPP/Bronowski/Bronowski/9/4/131

Title

"Western Behavioural Sciences Institute"

Date(s)

  • October 1962-25 April 1966 (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

1 file

Context area

Name of creator

Bronowski, Jacob (1908-1974), scientist
(1908 - 1974)

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Comprises correspondence relating to Bronowski talking to a seminar group at the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (La Jolla) on the philosophy of behavioural sciences (May 1964) and a request for Bronowski to speak on human and animal language at the Institute (c. 1964-65).

Also includes: copies of correspondence between Michael Polanyi and Yehoshua Bar-Hillel about a critique that Bar-Hillel wrote of a talk by Polanyi on 'The Body-Mind Relation' (with a copy of the critique), 1966; a copy of 'Tacit Knowledge: Its Bearing on Some Problems of Philosophy' by Michael Polanyi (Review of Modern Physics, vol. 34, no. 4, Oct 1962) with some annotations [by Bruce Mazlish]; and a "speaking engagement" information sheet [made for the file].

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

    Script of material

      Language and script notes

      Physical characteristics and technical requirements

      Finding aids

      Allied materials area

      Existence and location of originals

      Existence and location of copies

      Related units of description

      Related descriptions

      Notes area

      Alternative identifier(s)

      former reference

      Box 126:8 & 9

      Access points

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Name access points

      Genre access points

      Description control area

      Description identifier

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      Status

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation revision deletion

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          Accession area