3rd December 2009
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Fremont-Smith, at the urging of McCulloch, began planning a conference to explore the ideas Rosenblueth had presented four years earlier…The conference might have been limited to the subjects of laboratory physiology, neuropsychiatry and mathematics ahd Bateson not returned from duties in Southeast Asia in time to prevail on Fremont-Smith to include social and behavioral scientists among the small group of invitees. The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, with Fremont-Smith its medical director and chief conference organizer, would make all arrangements and reimburse articipants the cost of travel and hotel. The feedback Mechanisms and Circular Causal Systems in Biology and the Social Sciences Meeting, which took place 8-9 March 1946.
— Heims, Steve, J. Constructing a Social Science in Postwar America. MIT Press: Pg 17
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