Add MS 86758B

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Folder marked 'Philosopy Bunge etc – Correspondence'. Contents include:

• Letter to Maynard Smith from Mario Bunge; 2 Jul 1999. Attached is the manuscript for 'Thinking in Metaphors' by Bunge.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Eva Jablonka; 8 Jul 1999. Attached is her article 'The Systems of Inheritance'.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Michael Kary (Foundations & Philosophy of Science Unit, McGill University); 8 Oct 1998.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Michael Kary relating to comments about Maynard Smith's manuscript 'The Concept of Information in Biology'. The comments are attached; 14 Jan 1999.
• Letter from Maynard Smith to Michael Kary relating to his comments about a manuscript; 11 Feb 1999. Attached are some notes by Maynard Smith.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Michael Kary; 9 March 1999.
• Reply by Maynard Smith to an unknown recipient; 10 Feb 1999, response to queries, possibly with a manuscript, partly typewritten.
• Handwritten notes on M. Kary, 'Information, Mechanisms and Meaning'. Attached is the article by Micheal Kary, ‘Information’, in Studies on Mario Bunge's treatise, ed. by Weingartner Paul and Dorn George, J.W. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990), pp. 263-279.
• Mario Bunge, 'Mechanism and Explanation', Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 27 (1997), 410-465.
• Mario Bunge, 'The philosophical technologies', Technology in Science, 20 (1998), 377-383.

Folder marked 'Philosophy Reprints'. Contents include:

• Letter to Maynard Smith from Daniel C. Dennett (Centre for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University); 15 March 1999 relating to comments on a manuscript by Maynard Smith. Enclosed articles: Daniel C. Dennett, 'The Evolution of Religious memes: Who – or what- benefits?', Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 10 (1998), 115-128. The Philosophical Lexicon, ed. by Daniel C. Dennett, 8th edn, (1987). Lecture by Daniel C. Dennett 'The Evolution of Culture', 17 Feb 1999, Oxford.
• Letter from Maynard Smith to Dan [C. Dennett?; undated.
• Note from Celia Mc… enclosing 'Life and Cognition' by Boden, Margaret A.; undated.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Samir Okasha (Department of Philosophy, LSE); 11 Jun 1999. Includes his review of Sahotra Sarkar's manuscript 'Genetics and Reductionism'.
• Sahotra Sarkar, 'Biological Information: A sceptical look at some central dogmas of molecular biology', in The philosophy and history of molecular biology; new perspectives, ed. by Sahotra Sarkar (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1996), pp. 187-231. Attached are handwritten notes about Sarkar's publication.
• Kim Sterelny, Kelly C. Smith and Michael Dickison, 'The Extended Replicator', Biology and Philosophy, 11 (1996), 377-403.
• Motoo Kimura, 'Natural selection as the process of accumulating genetic information in adaptive evolution', Genetic Research Cambridge, 2 (1961), 127-140.
• Mosterin Jesus, 'Information, Philosophy and Ethics': review of Bernd-Olaf Kuppers’s Information and the origin of life, The Quarterly Review of Biology, 66 (1991), 323-4.

Folder marked 'Info – MS & Comments'. Contents include:

• Email to Maynard Smith from Robert Brosnan (Editorial Assistant, Philosophy of Science) re Professor Winnie's comments on his manuscript: 'The Concept of Information in Biology'; 23 Feb 2000. Enclosed is John A. Winnie, 'Information and Structure in Molecular Biology: Comments on Maynard Smith'. Intended for Philosophy of Science.
• Email from Noretta Koertge (Editor, Philosophy of Science) to Maynard Smith; 15 Oct 1999.
• Email to Ms Sheppard from Robert Brosnan relating to commentaries on Maynard Smith's manuscript; 15 Feb 2000.
• Peter Godfrey-Smith. 'Information, Arbitrariness and Selection: Comments on Maynard Smith'. Intended for Philosophy of Science.
• Sahotra Sarkar, 'Information in Genetics and Developmental Biology: Comments on Maynard Smith'. Intended for Philosophy of Science.
• Kim Sterelny, 'The "Genetic Program" Program: A Commentary on Maynard Smith on Information in Biology'. Intended for Philosophy of Science.
• Handwritten notes about Maynard Smith's query.
• Typewritten possible amendments to the original Maynard Smith paper.