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BOOK SYMPOSIUM
Book Symposium on Le concept dinformation dans la science contemporaine
Cahiers de Royaumont, Les ditions de Minuit/Gauthier-Villars 1965
Andrew Iliadis1 & Nandita Biswas Mellamphy2 &
Jean-Hugues Barthlmy3 & Marc J. de Vries4,5 &
Nathalie Simondon6
Received: 7 June 2015 /Accepted: 19 June 2015 /Published online: 30 June 2015 # Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
The Concept of Information in Contemporary Science (Royaumont, 1962) Andrew Iliadis, Purdue University
In 1962, at the illustrious grounds of Royaumont Abbey, situated about an hour north of Paris, a colloquium was held whose attendees included some of Frances foremost philosophers and experts on cybernetics and information theory. Presenters included Giorgio de Santillana, Lucien Goldmann, Benoit Mandelbrot, Norbert Wiener, Ren de Possel, Andr Lwoff, Abraham Moles, Henryk Greniewski, Helmar Frank, Ji Zeman,
* Andrew Iliadis [email protected]
Nandita Biswas Mellamphy [email protected]
Jean-Hugues Barthlmy [email protected]
Marc J. de Vries [email protected]
Nathalie Simondon [email protected]
1 Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
2 Western University, London, ON, Canada
3 Centre international des tudes simondoniennes (Maison des Sciences de lHomme Paris-Nord)/ Laboratory HAR/EA4414, Universit Paris OuestNanterre La Dfense, Paris, France
4 Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
5 Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
6 Classes prparatoires lcole Normale Suprieure, Paris, France
270 A. Iliadis et al.
Franois Bonsack, Louis Couffignal, Albert Prez, Ladislav Tondl, Gilles-Gaston Granger, and Stanisaw Bellert. The colloquium proceedings were published by Les ditions de Minuit and Gauthier-Villars in 1965 under the title Le concept dinformation dans la science contemporaine. They include transcripts of the presentations and question and answer periods, opening remarks by Martial Gueroult, an abstract of a last minute presentation by Gilbert Simondon (Simondon was one of the organizers of the conference and proceedings), and notes on a closing speech given by Jean Hyppolite. The proceedings were favorably reviewed by Ren Boirel in a 1967 issue of Les tudes Philosophiques and somewhat less favorably by the Nobel Prize winning physicist Dennis Gabor in a 1966 issue of The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Gabor did not care much for the interdisciplinary nature of the conference).
The concept of information at the Royaumont colloquium was certainly interdisciplinary and Gueroult...