Author: Susan Wells
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780271084664
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisciplinary scholarship today.
Robert Burton's Rhetoric
Author: Susan Wells
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780271084664
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisciplinary scholarship today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780271084664
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisciplinary scholarship today.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : la
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : la
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Depression, Mental
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Depression, Mental
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Self-Remembering
Author: Robert E. Burton
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 9780877288442
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This teacher of the Fourth Way Tradition shows how self-remembering, similar to Buddhist mindfulness and Orthodox non-attachment, relates to every aspect of the student's life and work. This book gives Burton's students an accurate transmission of his teaching on the core idea of self-remembering. Unique in the spiritual literature, this book is destined to become a classic.
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 9780877288442
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This teacher of the Fourth Way Tradition shows how self-remembering, similar to Buddhist mindfulness and Orthodox non-attachment, relates to every aspect of the student's life and work. This book gives Burton's students an accurate transmission of his teaching on the core idea of self-remembering. Unique in the spiritual literature, this book is destined to become a classic.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind
Author: Robert A. Burton, M.D.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 125002840X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
What if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control? Despite 2500 years of contemplation by the world's greatest minds and the more recent phenomenal advances in basic neuroscience, neither neuroscientists nor philosophers have a decent understanding of what the mind is or how it works. The gap between what the brain does and the mind experiences remains uncharted territory. Nevertheless, with powerful new tools such as the fMRI scan, neuroscience has become the de facto mode of explanation of behavior. Neuroscientists tell us why we prefer Coke to Pepsi, and the media trumpets headlines such as "Possible site of free will found in brain." Or: "Bad behavior down to genes, not poor parenting." Robert Burton believes that while some neuroscience observations are real advances, others are overreaching, unwarranted, wrong-headed, self-serving, or just plain ridiculous, and often with the potential for catastrophic personal and social consequences. In A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind, he brings together clinical observations, practical thought experiments, personal anecdotes, and cutting-edge neuroscience to decipher what neuroscience can tell us – and where it falls woefully short. At the same time, he offers a new vision of how to think about what the mind might be and how it works. A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind is a critical, startling, and expansive journey into the mysteries of the brain and what makes us human.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 125002840X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
What if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control? Despite 2500 years of contemplation by the world's greatest minds and the more recent phenomenal advances in basic neuroscience, neither neuroscientists nor philosophers have a decent understanding of what the mind is or how it works. The gap between what the brain does and the mind experiences remains uncharted territory. Nevertheless, with powerful new tools such as the fMRI scan, neuroscience has become the de facto mode of explanation of behavior. Neuroscientists tell us why we prefer Coke to Pepsi, and the media trumpets headlines such as "Possible site of free will found in brain." Or: "Bad behavior down to genes, not poor parenting." Robert Burton believes that while some neuroscience observations are real advances, others are overreaching, unwarranted, wrong-headed, self-serving, or just plain ridiculous, and often with the potential for catastrophic personal and social consequences. In A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind, he brings together clinical observations, practical thought experiments, personal anecdotes, and cutting-edge neuroscience to decipher what neuroscience can tell us – and where it falls woefully short. At the same time, he offers a new vision of how to think about what the mind might be and how it works. A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind is a critical, startling, and expansive journey into the mysteries of the brain and what makes us human.
The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert Burton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148580
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
One of the richest books in the English language, this systematized medical treatise on morbid mental states also features a compendium of memorable utterances on the human condition, compiled from classical, scholastic, and contemporary sources.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148580
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
One of the richest books in the English language, this systematized medical treatise on morbid mental states also features a compendium of memorable utterances on the human condition, compiled from classical, scholastic, and contemporary sources.
First Footsteps in East Africa, Or, An Exploration of Harar
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harar, Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harar, Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Library of Robert Burton
Author: Nicolas K. Kiessling
Publisher: Oxford Bibliographical Society, Bodleian Library
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford Bibliographical Society, Bodleian Library
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description