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Author: Jerome Kagan Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674039254 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 244
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Do the first two years of life really determine a child's future development? Are human beings, like other primates, only motivated by pleasure? And do people actually have stable traits, like intelligence, fear, anxiety, and temperament? This book, the product of a lifetime of research by one of the founders of developmental psychology, takes on the powerful assumptions behind these questions--and proves them mistaken. Ranging with impressive ease from cultural history to philosophy to psychological research literature, Jerome Kagan weaves an argument that will rock the social sciences and the foundations of public policy. Scientists, as well as lay people, tend to think of abstract processes--like intelligence or fear--as measurable entities, of which someone might have more or less. This approach, in Kagan's analysis, shows a blindness to the power of context and to the great variability within any individual subject to different emotions and circumstances. "Infant determinism" is another widespread and dearly held conviction that Kagan contests. This theory--with its claim that early relationships determine lifelong patterns--underestimates human resiliency and adaptiveness, both emotional and cognitive (and, of course, fails to account for the happy products of miserable childhoods and vice versa). The last of Kagan's targets is the vastly overrated pleasure principle, which, he argues, can hardly make sense of unselfish behavior impelled by the desire for virtue and self-respect--the wish to do the right thing. Written in a lively style that uses fables and fairy tales, history and science to make philosophical points, this book challenges some of our most cherished notions about human nature.
Author: Morris P. Fiorina Publisher: Hoover Press ISBN: 0817921168 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 250
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America is "currently fighting its second Civil War." Partisan politics are "ripping this country apart." The 2016 election "will go down as the most acrimonious presidential campaign of all." Such statements have become standard fare in American politics. In a time marked by gridlock and incivility, it seems the only thing Americans can agree on is this: we're more divided today than we've ever been in our history. In Unstable Majorities Morris P. Fiorina surveys American political history to reveal that, in fact, the American public is not experiencing a period of unprecedented polarization. Bypassing the alarmism that defines contemporary punditry, he cites research and historical context that illuminate the forces that shape voting patterns, political parties, and voter behavior. By placing contemporary events in their proper context, he corrects widespread misconceptions and gives reasons to be optimistic about the future of American electoral politics.
Author: Joanne Baker Publisher: Quercus ISBN: 1623651905 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 316
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In this, the second volume in an important new series presenting core concepts across a range of critical areas of human knowledge, author Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of 20th-century scientific theory for a general readership. From Hubble's law to the Pauli exclusion principle, and from Schrodinger's cat to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, she explains ideas at the cutting-edge of scientific enquiry, making them comprehensible and accessible to the layperson.
Author: Leonard J. Lamm Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 9780814751398 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 340
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Lamm redraws the map of American psychoanalytic argument and takes a fresh look at current debates on narrative truth, metapsychology, and the role of the past in theory and therapy. Rejecting the exclusivist claims of scientific and hermeneutic psychoanalysis, he argues that the task is no longer to unify psychoanalysis into a homogeneous discourse, but rather to ascertain the conditions under which each mode of discourse--history, science, and practice--is applicable and appropriate. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Tony Brown Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783039105274 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 286
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This book employs Lacanian psychoanalysis to develop new ways of understanding educational domains. It analyses events, practices and policies that occur in school classrooms, teacher education and higher-degree studies including educational research. It provides an accessible introduction, description and analysis of those aspects of Lacan's work concerned with language, identity and subjectivity directly relevant to the field of education. Regulative discourses and practices in education are a central concern and the authors demonstrate how Lacanian theory empowers our understanding of how such discourses are instrumental in forming teacher and researcher identities. The book also shows how regulatory practices and discourses are relevant to research methodologies that arise in the field of action research in education.
Author: Austin Edeki Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1490758984 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 143
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Life is a journey, and within the journey, there is a race, and in the race, there are lanes. Every man has his lane where he runs his race. If you run your race on someone elses lane, he determines how much you are paid, how you spend your time, and when you spend it. Everyone has an arrival time that is unique to their race. My arrival time may not be your arrival time, but that doesnt mean I wont arrive. We are all wired differently. You may be wired to kill Goliath, but I am wired to build the temple. You may be wired to be the next king, but I am wired to anoint the king for endorsement. Every destiny on the face of the earth is important, and there is a connection. You will learn the following: what the journey is all about and how to recognize it the race of life and how to recognize when youre running on someone elses lane how to switch to your lane and run your race successfully who the master over your life is and how to exit the wrong master how to discern moments and seasons how to understand and recognize the spirit of Eli how to make choices and stay committed to them how to maximize the spoon you were born with and how to use it to your benefit in the marketplace how to create an environment of success
Author: Ramon Cirera Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004458271 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 414
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It is not inacurate to say that from 1928 to 1936 Carnap was a member of the Vienna Circle, even though during this period he was not always present in Vienna. During this years, which spanned roughly the period from the Aufbau to Testability and Meaning, he worked or at least discussed frequently with the members of the group. However, traditionally it has been difficult to form a proper view of the development of Carnap's ideas throughout this period, mainly because of three errors which have persisted in the commonly accepted historical interpretation of Carnap and the Vienna Circle: emphasis on the Circle as a unit rather than a collective of individuals; insistence on verificationism as the defining characteristic of Logical Positivism; and the systematic abstraction of the work of the Circle from its historical context. As against this historically distorted image, this book argues for an alternative reading, evaluating the different influences on Carnap of Schlick, Wittgenstein, Neurath and Popper, and making sense of Carnap's evolution from physicalism to phenomenalism and the syntactic point of view.
Author: William G. Benham Publisher: Health Research Books ISBN: 9780787300906 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 682
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1900 a practical treatise on the art commonly called palmistry. with 800 illustrations from life. Some of the Contents: Basis of Our Work; Plan of Creation; Mount Types; Life Current; General Attributes of the Lines; Pose & Carriage of the Hands;.
Author: Jerome Kagan
Author: Jerome Kagan
Author: Jerome Kagan
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