Jacob Bronowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 3699686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Bronowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Bronowski |
| SIGNATURE | BRONOWSKI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Science in the New Humanism
works, and whyit works. Neither of these questions is simply technical; on the contrary, their answers imply a special relation and attitude of man to his environment, and that is why they are important to every thinking person. So I shall divide the treatment of my subject into three parts. In the first part I shall ask, How does science work? This is therefore an inquiry in logic. In the second part I shall ask, Why does science work? This is a…
Science as a Humanistic Discipline
(1968). Science as a Humanistic Discipline. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 33-38
The Creative Process
thought is not contemplative but active. I do not ask, What is beauty? or even How do we judge what is beautiful? I ask as simply as I can, What prompts men to make something which seems beautiful, to them or to others? This is a rational question and it deserves a rational answer. We must not retreat from it into vague intuitions, or side-step it with hymns of praise to the mystical nature of beauty. I am not talking about mystics: I am talking …
A Twentieth-Century Image of Man
New Concepts in the Evolution of Complexity
discover in inanimate matter; and although that is a vague description to serve as a premise, it is what inspires vitalists to claim (and their opponents to deny) that some phenomena of life cannot be explained by laws of this kind. The phenomena that are said to be inaccessible to physics are of two different kinds. One school of vitalists another ground for claiming that the laws of physics are biologically incomplete, namely in questions about…
The Long Childhood
began about AD 900, before Christianity arrived, at a time when China was a great empire, and Europe was the spoil of princelings and robber barons. That is a remarkable beginning to democracy. But there is something more remarkable about this misty, inclement site. It was chosen because the farmer who had owned it had killed, not another farmer but a slave, and had been outlawed. Justice was seldom so even-handed in slave-owning cultures. Yet ju…
Technology and Culture in Evolution
There is no blueprint of the future: there is not even a modern bible of the future, of the kind that Karl Marx wrote-a compound of history and exhortation that might be read as a map to the promised land. Since the heyday of H. G. Wells, almost no one has written seriously about the future except the prophets of gloom, such as Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. Their books were made popular by their moralizing tone, but in fact they lack moral as …
Language, Name, and Concept
Magic, Science, and Civilization
The Visionary Eye
The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
New Concepts in the Evolution of Complexity
The Experience of Creation
All the way back to the cave paintings and the invention of the first stone tools, what moved men to create was an everyday impulse. But it was an impulse in the everyday of men, not of animals. Whether we search for the beginnings of creativity either in art or in science, we have to go to those faculties which are human and not animal faculties. Something happens on the tree of evolution between the big apes and ourselves which is bound up with…
Symposium on Technology and Social Criticism—Introduction Technology and Culture in Evolution
New concepts in the evolution of complexity
The Logic of the Mind
Imagination and the University
The Western Intellectual Tradition from Leonardo to Hegel
The Scandal of Philosophy
The Logic of Nature
Statistics of discrimination in anthropology
Aging Medicine is an open access journal for international collaboration in multiple research disciplines across the aging sciences. The American Journal of Biological Anthropology is a physical anthropology publication, accepting evolutionary articles in bioarcheology, human & primate biology, & more
Statistics of discrimination in anthropology
Aging Medicine is an open access journal for international collaboration in multiple research disciplines across the aging sciences. The American Journal of Biological Anthropology is a physical anthropology publication, accepting evolutionary articles in bioarcheology, human & primate biology, & more
New concepts in the evolution of complexity
Symposium on Technology and Social Criticism—Introduction Technology and Culture in Evolution
Technology and Culture in Evolution
There is no blueprint of the future: there is not even a modern bible of the future, of the kind that Karl Marx wrote-a compound of history and exhortation that might be read as a map to the promised land. Since the heyday of H. G. Wells, almost no one has written seriously about the future except the prophets of gloom, such as Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. Their books were made popular by their moralizing tone, but in fact they lack moral as …
Statistics of discrimination in anthropology
Aging Medicine is an open access journal for international collaboration in multiple research disciplines across the aging sciences. The American Journal of Biological Anthropology is a physical anthropology publication, accepting evolutionary articles in bioarcheology, human & primate biology, & more
The Logic of Nature
The Scandal of Philosophy
The Western Intellectual Tradition from Leonardo to Hegel
Imagination and the University
The Logic of the Mind
New concepts in the evolution of complexity
Symposium on Technology and Social Criticism—Introduction Technology and Culture in Evolution
New Concepts in the Evolution of Complexity
The Experience of Creation
All the way back to the cave paintings and the invention of the first stone tools, what moved men to create was an everyday impulse. But it was an impulse in the everyday of men, not of animals. Whether we search for the beginnings of creativity either in art or in science, we have to go to those faculties which are human and not animal faculties. Something happens on the tree of evolution between the big apes and ourselves which is bound up with…
The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
Language, Name, and Concept
Magic, Science, and Civilization
The Visionary Eye
Science in the New Humanism
works, and whyit works. Neither of these questions is simply technical; on the contrary, their answers imply a special relation and attitude of man to his environment, and that is why they are important to every thinking person. So I shall divide the treatment of my subject into three parts. In the first part I shall ask, How does science work? This is therefore an inquiry in logic. In the second part I shall ask, Why does science work? This is a…
Science as a Humanistic Discipline
(1968). Science as a Humanistic Discipline. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 33-38
The Creative Process
thought is not contemplative but active. I do not ask, What is beauty? or even How do we judge what is beautiful? I ask as simply as I can, What prompts men to make something which seems beautiful, to them or to others? This is a rational question and it deserves a rational answer. We must not retreat from it into vague intuitions, or side-step it with hymns of praise to the mystical nature of beauty. I am not talking about mystics: I am talking …
A Twentieth-Century Image of Man
New Concepts in the Evolution of Complexity
discover in inanimate matter; and although that is a vague description to serve as a premise, it is what inspires vitalists to claim (and their opponents to deny) that some phenomena of life cannot be explained by laws of this kind. The phenomena that are said to be inaccessible to physics are of two different kinds. One school of vitalists another ground for claiming that the laws of physics are biologically incomplete, namely in questions about…
The Long Childhood
began about AD 900, before Christianity arrived, at a time when China was a great empire, and Europe was the spoil of princelings and robber barons. That is a remarkable beginning to democracy. But there is something more remarkable about this misty, inclement site. It was chosen because the farmer who had owned it had killed, not another farmer but a slave, and had been outlawed. Justice was seldom so even-handed in slave-owning cultures. Yet ju…
Technology and Culture in Evolution
There is no blueprint of the future: there is not even a modern bible of the future, of the kind that Karl Marx wrote-a compound of history and exhortation that might be read as a map to the promised land. Since the heyday of H. G. Wells, almost no one has written seriously about the future except the prophets of gloom, such as Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. Their books were made popular by their moralizing tone, but in fact they lack moral as …
Philosophy (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · History (4 works) · Cognitive science (3 works)