Science and Ethics

BRILLIANT WARTIME DISCUSSION OF SCIENCE AND ETHICS BY MAJOR SCHOLARS, INSCRIBED TO THE MASTER AND SIGNED BY CH WADDINGTON.

13x20 cm hardcover, blue cloth binding, inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by Waddington to The Master, with respectful compliments/ C. H. Waddington, 144 pp, very good in very good dust jacket, spine sunned.

REVIEW IN NATURE, June 12, 1943: "On September 6, 1941, NATURE printed an essay by Dr. C. H. Waddington on Science and Ethics (p. 270). This essay had previously been submitted to various men of science, philosophers and churchmen whose comments were published in the same number of NATURE (pp. 274-280). The discussion that had been opened in this way led to further communications between Waddington and authorities on the particular subjects to which he had referred, including psychology, anthropology, Marxism and logical positivism. The entire material has now been put together and published collectively in this book. Among the contributors are the Bishop of Birmingham, the Dean of St. Paul's, Profs. Huxley, Haldane, Dingle and Bernal with Drs. Needham, Darlington, Stephen and Joad, and Mrs. Melanie Klein. The book is a notable contribution to the contemporary philosophy of science."

CONRAD HAL WADDINGTON (1905 -1975) was a British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology, epigenetics, and evolutionary developmental biology. Waddington had wide interests that included poetry and painting, as well as left-wing political leanings. In 1928, he was awarded an Arnold Gerstenberg Studentship in the University of Cambridge, whose purpose was to promote the study of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics among students of Natural Science, both men and women. He took up a Lectureship in Zoology and was a Fellow of Christ's College until 1942. His friends included Gregory Bateson, Walter Gropius, C. P. Snow, Solly Zuckerman, Joseph Needham, and John Desmond Bernal. His interests began with paleontology but moved on to the heredity and development of living things. He also studied philosophy. During World War II he was involved in operational research with the Royal Air Force and became scientific advisor to the Commander in Chief of Coastal Command from 1944 to 1945.

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Publisher: George Allen and Unwin Ltd.

Year: 1942

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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