Speaking of such needs for Rosen papers, is there a plan or would
it be possible to get all his papers together into an archive with as
many as possible available electronically? I guess that would fall
largely to Judith and I know you are very busy. But could any aspects
of such a big task be delegated? Would it be the kind of public service
project worth getting grants and staff to help with? I could see a huge
benefit to society and humanity and life itself. If there is to be a
future
of life to look back on (as in his cool title below) we may need to
increase the diffusion of knowledge and in depth learning of key
Rosen contributions like complexity, modeling, entailment, etc. etc.
The basic idea is a "one stop shopping", single major web go-to site
for all things of Robert Rosen's works.
Some thoughts...
Dan
Tim Gwinn wrote:
Does anyone know who published "Quarterly Bulletin of Theoretical
Biology"?
In the Rosen bibliography, there are a number of entries - most of
them in 1974 - which are labeled as:
"CSDI Paper. Quart. Bull. Theor. Biology"
I found the CSDI (Center for Study of Democratic Institutions)
repository at UCSB:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/oac/ucsb/csdi99/
But I cannot locate the QBTB anywhere.
Judith, do you know if you have these papers from the CSDI or QBTB?
Some of them have very interesting or provocative titles, such as:
"A Framework for Retrospective Futurology"
"Environmental Challenges are Political Challenges"
Do We Really Need Ends to Justify the Means?"
Regards,
Tim