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Certainties and doubts : a philosophy of life / Anatol Rapoport.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rapoport, Anatol, 1911-2007.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rapoport, Anatol, 1911-2007.
- Rapoport, Anatol.
- Social scientists--United States--Biography.
- Social scientists.
- United States.
- Mathematicians--United States--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 196 pages of plates, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; New York : Black Rose Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- From the world concert stage to service in the U.S. Air Force, from journalism to mathematics, from studies in conflict and cooperation to peace research, Anatol Rapoport has been both pioneer and lead-figure. Author of approximately 500 publications, Rapoport has spearheaded many scientific innovations, including the application of mathematical methods, first to Biology and later to the Social Sciences. Here, he recounts his life and the people he met along the way.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Mentors and Celebrities 1
- Looking Back
- Chapter 2 Childhood 8
- Baku
- Beyond Reading
- Writing and Arithmetic
- Revolution and Tolstoy
- Crimea
- Exodus
- Chapter 3 America 27
- Adolescence
- Chapter 4 Vienna 46
- Chapter 5 Transition 57
- University
- Europe Again
- Graduate Student
- "Revolutionary" Activity
- Chapter 6 War 70
- Nome
- Ambivalence
- Semantics
- Thirty Men Aboard
- Interlude
- India
- Victory
- Home
- Chapter 7 Chicago 88
- My First Paper
- Mass Behaviour
- Epidemics and Rumours
- Science and Values
- General Semantics
- Sanity and the Cold War
- General System Theory
- Witch Hunt
- Chapter 8 CASBAH 108
- Prisoner's Dilemma
- Looking for an Anchorage
- Genesis of Superstitions
- Chapter 9 Ann Arbor 117
- The First Prisoner's Dilemma Experiment
- The First Visits to the Soviet Union
- Warsaw
- Commitment
- Teach-ins
- Peace Research
- Farewell to U.S.
- Chapter 10 Toronto 147
- Rationalist and Systemic Views of Behaviour
- Spin-offs of Prisoner's Dilemma
- Vienna Again
- The Peace and Conflict Studies Programme
- Chapter 11 I Believe That...I Believe in 159
- Degrees of Belief and Disbelief
- Superstitions
- Enlightenment
- Good and Evil
- The We-They Dichotomy
- Relativity of Values
- Myth
- Unity in Diversity
- Chapter 12 Looking Back and Ahead 180
- Beyond the Sphere of Affection, Respect and Ideological Affinity
- Prospects.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1551641682
- 1551641690
- OCLC:
- 43283284
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