Rudolph Arnheim (L) and Bateson (R) speaking at the American Federation of Arts 48th Annual Convention, 1957 Apr 6 / Eliot Elisofon, photographer American Federation of Arts records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Born
(1904-05-09)9 May 1904
Grantchester, England
Died
4 July 1980(1980-07-04) (aged 76)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Known for
Double bind, ecology of mind, deuterolearning, schismogenesis
Spouses
Margaret Mead
(m. 1936; div. 1950)
Elizabeth Sumner
(m. 1951; div. 1957)
Lois Cammack
(m. 1961)
Children
5, including Mary C. Bateson
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Anthropology, social sciences, linguistics, cybernetics, systems theory
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Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979).
In Palo Alto, California, Bateson and in these days his non-colleagues[1] developed the double-bind theory of schizophrenia.
Bateson's interest in systems theory forms a thread running through his work. He was one of the original members of the core group of the Macy conferences in Cybernetics (1941–1960), and the later set on Group Processes (1954–1960), where he represented the social and behavioral sciences. He was interested in the relationship of these fields to epistemology. His association with the editor and author Stewart Brand helped widen his influence.
^Jay Haley was in these days a librarian, John Weakland a chemical engineer, Donald Jackson a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, William Fry a sociologist.
GregoryBateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist...
opting out of the situation. Double bind theory was first stated by GregoryBateson and his colleagues in the 1950s, in a theory on the origins of schizophrenia...
Catherine Bateson (December 8, 1939 – January 2, 2021) was an American writer and cultural anthropologist. The daughter of Margaret Mead and GregoryBateson, Bateson...
the totality of all opposites. In his Steps to an Ecology of Mind, GregoryBateson adopts and extends Jung's distinction between pleroma (the non-living...
(according to Cock). Their son was the anthropologist and cyberneticist GregoryBateson. Bateson has been described as a "very militant" atheist. In June 1894 he...
evolution of intelligent systems has been identified . Anthropologist GregoryBateson is the most influential and earliest propagator of systems theory in...
GregoryBateson with whom she had a daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, who would also become an anthropologist. She readily acknowledged that Bateson was...
short documentary film shot by the anthropologists Margaret Mead and GregoryBateson during their research on Bali in the 1930s. It shows female dancers...
systems science include Russell Ackoff, Ruzena Bajcsy, Béla H. Bánáthy, GregoryBateson, Anthony Stafford Beer, Peter Checkland, Barbara Grosz, Brian Wilson...
Professor of Anthropology at McGill University and winner of the 2014 GregoryBateson Prize. He is best known for the book, How Forests Think. His 2013 book...
systems thinking, and based on the theoretical work of Roger Barker, GregoryBateson, Humberto Maturana and others. Groups and individuals are considered...
of William Blake. His mentor was the anthropologist and philosopher GregoryBateson. At Harvard he worked with Jerome Bruner and Irven DeVore. He has taught...
information theorist Claude Shannon, anthropologists Margaret Mead and GregoryBateson, and others. Norbert Wiener is credited as being one of the first to...
Bali . GregoryBateson, Margaret Mead.; Bathing Babies in Three Cultures. GregoryBateson, Margaret Mead. ; Karba's First Years. GregoryBateson, Margaret...
anthropology Salvage ethnography Tribal art/Folk art Major theorists Tim Asch GregoryBateson Franz Boas Pierre Bourdieu John Collier Frances Densmore Robert J....
and information, focuses on forms and the patterns that connect" (GregoryBateson). The Ancient Greek term κυβερνητικός (kubernētikos, '(good at) steering')...
deemed the "observer effect" by GregoryBateson, who was perhaps unaware of the dogma Rouch was attempting to violate. Bateson, as one of the earliest to write...
Steps to an Ecology of Mind is a collection of GregoryBateson's short works over his long and varied career. Subject matter includes essays on anthropology...
tension triggers the next patellar reflex.) — GregoryBateson, A Sacred Unity, p. 85 In the text, Bateson goes on to describe induction of clonus as a...
representation, though not created or presented for that purpose. For example, GregoryBateson defines "information" as a "difference that makes a difference". If...
scholar, social science methodologist, and cyberneticist. and was the GregoryBateson professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at the University...
work of Varela and Maturana, as well as that of Ilya Prigogine and GregoryBateson. Varela's 1991 book The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human...
a laboratory to research dolphins. The director of the laboratory, GregoryBateson, allowed her to observe dolphin behavior, and was impressed by her...
famous visitors, including Charlie Chaplin and the anthropologists GregoryBateson and Margaret Mead, encouraged the talented locals to create highly...
intensified personification of their own emotional and social inadequacy". GregoryBateson considered sometimes "the identified patient sacrifices himself to...
Lawrence K. Frank, and held on 13–15 May 1942. Those invited were GregoryBateson, Frank Beach, Carl Binger, Felix Deutsch, Flanders Dunbar, Julie Eisenbud...
Ackoff Victor Aladjev William Ross Ashby Ruzena Bajcsy Béla H. Bánáthy GregoryBateson Anthony Stafford Beer Richard E. Bellman Ludwig von Bertalanffy Margaret...
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