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- October 1962-25 April 1966 (Creation)
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1 file
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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].