Beyond Reductionism : New Perspectives in the Life Sciences (The Alpbach Symposium 1968).
New York: Macmillan, 1970. First American edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Inked name to ffep, mild spotting to top edge stain, else near fine in near fine, moderately rubbed dust jacket, in mylar cover. Item #223953
Austro-Hungarian author Arthur Koestler, though never fully recognized as a scientist, nevertheless had influence in gathering a group of antireductionists for a symposium he hosted in Austria in 1968. Such prominent scientists and philosophers as F. A. Hayek, Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy, and C. H. Waddington gave talks and led discussions, all of which are recorded here and edited by Koestler and neuroscientist J. R. Smythies. Covering a wide range of subjects under the umbrella of antireductionism, this volume transports the reader into the audience of the Alpbach Symposium of 1968.
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