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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).
Jun 30, 2024 · Gregory Bateson was a British-born American anthropologist who contributed to the field of cybernetics. He championed the idea that psychological disorders, particularly schizophrenia, were caused by situations of double bind and were ultimately communication problems.
Gregory Bateson was not only an outstanding scientist but also a highly original philosopher. He was very charismatic and, like a Zen master, he liked to jolt people’s minds by asking astonishing and seemingly mysterious questions.
Jul 15, 2019 · Through the 1970s and ’80s, in an extraordinarily creative series of conferences, papers and essays collected in Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Bateson urged people to re-examine their own way of learning and thinking.
Oct 27, 2019 · Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) — anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist — actively promoted the blurring of lines between disciplines in order that we see the wholeness and interconnectedness of things.
Gregory Bateson (May 9, 1904 – July 4, 1980) was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.
Gregory Bateson died on July 4, 1980, at the age of 76, survived by his wife, Lois; three children, Mary Catherine, John, and Nora; and his adopted son, Eric. Mary Catherine, the child of his marriage to Margaret Mead , is Dean of Faculty at Amherst College and, like her parents, an anthropologist.
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