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Record Id:
040-000566777
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-000375067
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x0001fc
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 86758A
Title:
Information
Scope & Content:

Some items are undated.

Folder marked 'Information MS & Comments'. Contents include:

  • Letter to Maynard Smith from Katarzyna Kijania-Placek relating to a paper to be published in the Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science by Kluwer Academic Publishers; 20 Oct 2001.
  • Typewritten draft entitled 'The Concept of Information in Biology'.
  • Typewritten amendment to target article.

Loose item:

  • Kim Sterelny, 'Niche Construction, Developmental Systems and the Extended Replicator'.

Folder marked 'Godfrey-Smith'. Contents include:

  • Letter to Maynard Smith from Peter Godfrey-Smith (Department of Philosophy, Stanford University); 23 Nov 1998.
  • Letter to Maynard Smith from Peter Godfrey-Smith; 23 Jan 1999. Attached is the article 'Genes and Codes: Lessons from the Philosophy of Mind?'
  • Letter to Maynard Smith from Godfrey-Smith; 8 Jun 1999.
  • Letter to Maynard Smith from Godfrey-Smith; 2 Dec undated.
  • Letter to Maynard Smith from Godfrey-Smith, relating to Smith's article (see above). Attached are handwritten notes by Maynard Smith; undated.
  • Peter Godfrey-Smith, 'On the Theoretical Role of "Genetic Coding"' (submitted to Philosophy of Science).

Folder marked 'Information in Biology Correspondence'. Contents include:

  • Letter to Maynard Smith from David L. Hull (Northwestern University); 29 May 1998.
  • Letter to Maynard Smith from David L. Hull; 13 Aug 1999.
  • Letter from Maynard Smith to Eva [Jablonka?]; 2 Aug undated. Partial.
  • Letter from Eva Jablonka to Maynard Smith; 7 Aug undated.
  • Letter to Maynard Smith from Katarzyna Kijania-Plack relating to 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 30 Nov 1999. Annotation reads ‘Sent 15 Dec’.
  • Letter from Elliott Sober (Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin) to Maynard Smith; 1 Dec 1991.
  • Letter from Elliott Sober to Maynard Smith; 12 Sep 1999.
  • Letter from Maynard Smith to Elliott Sober; Sep 1999.
  • Letter from Maynard Smith to Elliott Sober; 1 Nov undated.
  • Letter from Maynard Smith to Elliott Sober; undated.
  • Letter to Maynard Smith from an unknown author relating to a memes symposium; 19 Apr 1999.
  • Letter from Maynard Smith to Dan [Daniel C. Dennett]; 5 March undated. Photocopy.
  • List of references for Maynard Smith article 'Too good to be true'.
  • Printed diagram.
  • Handwritten notes relating to title page.
  • Various diagrams, printed and hand drawn.
  • Kim Sterelny and Paul E. Griffiths, ‘Gene Molecule and Organisms: the developmental system alternatives', in Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology, ed. by David L. Hull (Chicago: University Chicago Press 1999), pp. 104-9.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-000375067
036-000375071
040-000566777
Is part of:
Add MS 86569-86840 : John Maynard Smith Archive
Add MS 86597-86830 : Subject files

 

Add MS 86758A : Information
Hierarchy:
032-000375067[0003]/036-000375071[0165]/040-000566777
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 86569-86840
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
3 sub-folders and 1 loose item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1991
End Date:
2001
Date Range:
1991-2001
Era:
CE
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