Author: A. M. (of the Middle Temple.)Publisher:
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A Challenge to Phrenologists; Or, Phrenology Tested by Reason and Facts
Author: A. M. (of the Middle Temple.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A Challenge to Phrenologists
Author: A. M. (of the Middle Temple.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A Challenge to Phrenologists; Or, Phrenology Tested by Reason and Facts. by A. M., of the Middle Temple
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ISBN: 9780461676426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A Challenge Phrenologists Or Phrenology Tested by Beason and Facts
Author: After Phrenology
Author: Michael L. AndersonPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262028107
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of functional diversity in brain regions and networks. The computer analogy of the mind has been as widely adopted in contemporary cognitive neuroscience as was the analogy of the brain as a collection of organs in phrenology. Just as the phrenologist would insist that each organ must have its particular function, so contemporary cognitive neuroscience is committed to the notion that each brain region must have its fundamental computation. In After Phrenology, Michael Anderson argues that to achieve a fully post-phrenological science of the brain, we need to reassess this commitment and devise an alternate, neuroscientifically grounded taxonomy of mental function. Anderson contends that the cognitive roles played by each region of the brain are highly various, reflecting different neural partnerships established under different circumstances. He proposes quantifying the functional properties of neural assemblies in terms of their dispositional tendencies rather than their computational or information-processing operations. Exploring larger-scale issues, and drawing on evidence from embodied cognition, Anderson develops a picture of thinking rooted in the exploitation and extension of our early-evolving capacity for iterated interaction with the world. He argues that the multidimensional approach to the brain he describes offers a much better fit for these findings, and a more promising road toward a unified science of minded organisms.
Head Masters
Author: Stephen TomlinsonPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817357637
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced Head Masters challenges the assumption that phrenology—the study of the conformation of the skull as it relates to mental faculties and character—played only a minor and somewhat anecdotal role in the development of education. Stephen Tomlinson asserts instead that phrenology was a scientifically respectable theory of human nature, perhaps the first solid physiological psychology. He shows that the first phrenologists were among the most prominent scientists and intellectuals of their day, and that the concept was eagerly embraced by leading members of the New England medical community. Following its progression from European theorists Franz-Joseph Gall, Johan Gasper Spurzheim, and George Combe to Americans Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe, Tomlinson traces the origins of phrenological theory and examines how its basic principles of human classification, inheritance, and development provided a foundation for the progressive practices advocated by middle-class reformers such as Combe and Mann. He also elucidates the ways in which class, race, and gender stereotypes permeated 19th century thought and how popular views of nature, mind, and society supported a secular curriculum favoring the use of disciplinary practices based on physiology. This study ultimately offers a reconsideration of the ideas and theories that motivated education reformers such as Mann and Howe, and a reassessment of Combe, who, though hardly known by contemporary scholars, emerges as one of the most important and influential educators of the 19th century.
The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science
Author: Roger CooterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521227438
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This study concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society.
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