I took my third sabbatical, in 1972–3, at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, located in Stanford, California. The Center, as I knewit, was an unusual institution, which invited about fifty fellows each year to pursue their researches at its campus adjacent to Stanford University. The designation “Behavioral Sciences” was interpreted quite broadly, to include not only psychology and the social sciences but also such areas as linguistics, history, psychiatry, computer science, medicine, literary theory, and philosophy, among others. The effort was made to invite for each year a cohort of scholars whose disciplines, though spanning different fields, might reasonably be expected to relate to one another in fruitful ways.
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(2004). Center for Advanced Study. In: Gallery of Scholars. Philosophy and Education, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2710-9_11
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