Author: South African Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
A General Catalogue of Books in the South African Public Library, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope
Author: South African Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Physical Theory of Another Life. By the author of Natural History of Enthusiasm [i.e. Isaac Taylor].
Emergent Evolution
Author: David Blitz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401580421
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace in this work: firstly, that evolution is a universal process of change, one which is productive of qualitative novelties; secondly, that qualitative novelty is the emergence in a system of a property not possessed by any of its parts; and thirdly, that reality can be analyzed into levels, each consisting of systems characterized by significant emergent properties. In part one I consider the background to emergence in the 19th century discussion of the philosophy of evolution among its leading exponents in England - Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, T. H. Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, and G. J. Romanes. Unlike the scientific aspect of the debate which aimed to determine the factors and causal mechanism of biological evolution, this aspect of the debate centered on more general problems which form what I call the "philosophical framework for evolutionary theory." This considers the status of continuity and discontinuity in evolution, the role of qualitative and quantitative factors in change, the relation between the organic and the inorganic, the relation between the natural and the supernatural, the mind-body problem, and the scope of evolution, including its extension to ethics and morals.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401580421
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Emergent evolution combines three separate but related claims, whose background, origin, and development I trace in this work: firstly, that evolution is a universal process of change, one which is productive of qualitative novelties; secondly, that qualitative novelty is the emergence in a system of a property not possessed by any of its parts; and thirdly, that reality can be analyzed into levels, each consisting of systems characterized by significant emergent properties. In part one I consider the background to emergence in the 19th century discussion of the philosophy of evolution among its leading exponents in England - Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, T. H. Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, and G. J. Romanes. Unlike the scientific aspect of the debate which aimed to determine the factors and causal mechanism of biological evolution, this aspect of the debate centered on more general problems which form what I call the "philosophical framework for evolutionary theory." This considers the status of continuity and discontinuity in evolution, the role of qualitative and quantitative factors in change, the relation between the organic and the inorganic, the relation between the natural and the supernatural, the mind-body problem, and the scope of evolution, including its extension to ethics and morals.
Victorian Faith in Crisis
Author: Richard J Helmstadter
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349109746
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349109746
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
A Free and Explanatory Version of the Epistles. By the Rev. Edward Barlee
British Librarian, Or Book-collectors Guide to the Formation of a Library in All Branches of Literature (etc.)
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
From Passions to Emotions
Author: Thomas Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113943697X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Today there is a thriving 'emotions industry' to which philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists are contributing. Yet until two centuries ago 'the emotions' did not exist. In this path-breaking study Thomas Dixon shows how, during the nineteenth century, the emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category, replacing existing categories such as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections. By examining medieval and eighteenth-century theological psychologies and placing Charles Darwin and William James within a broader and more complex nineteenth-century setting, Thomas Dixon argues that this domination by one single descriptive category is not healthy. Overinclusivity of 'the emotions' hampers attempts to argue with any subtlety about the enormous range of mental states and stances of which humans are capable. This book is an important contribution to the debate about emotion and rationality which has preoccupied western thinkers throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has implications for contemporary debates.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113943697X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Today there is a thriving 'emotions industry' to which philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists are contributing. Yet until two centuries ago 'the emotions' did not exist. In this path-breaking study Thomas Dixon shows how, during the nineteenth century, the emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category, replacing existing categories such as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections. By examining medieval and eighteenth-century theological psychologies and placing Charles Darwin and William James within a broader and more complex nineteenth-century setting, Thomas Dixon argues that this domination by one single descriptive category is not healthy. Overinclusivity of 'the emotions' hampers attempts to argue with any subtlety about the enormous range of mental states and stances of which humans are capable. This book is an important contribution to the debate about emotion and rationality which has preoccupied western thinkers throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has implications for contemporary debates.
Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology
Author: William Buckland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible and geology
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible and geology
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Subject List of Works of Reference, Biography, Bibliography, the Auxiliary Historical Sciences, Etc., in the Library of the Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference books
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference books
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Patent Office Library Subject Lists. New Series
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description