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Book Synopsis A Challenge to Phrenologists by : A. M. (of the Middle Temple.)
Download or read book A Challenge to Phrenologists written by A. M. (of the Middle Temple.) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Challenge to Phrenologists; Or, Phrenology Tested by Reason and Facts by : A. M. (of the Middle Temple.)
Download or read book A Challenge to Phrenologists; Or, Phrenology Tested by Reason and Facts written by A. M. (of the Middle Temple.) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis After Phrenology by : Michael L. Anderson
Download or read book After Phrenology written by Michael L. Anderson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science by : Roger Cooter
Download or read book The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science written by Roger Cooter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society.
Download or read book Head Masters written by Stephen Tomlinson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis An Organ of Murder by : Courtney E. Thompson
Download or read book An Organ of Murder written by Courtney E. Thompson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2022 Cheiron Book Prize An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in particular on the influence of phrenology. In the United States, phrenology shaped the production of medico-legal knowledge around crime, the treatment of the criminal within prisons and in public discourse, and sociocultural expectations about the causes of crime. The criminal was phrenology’s ideal research and demonstration subject, and the courtroom and the prison were essential spaces for the staging of scientific expertise. In particular, phrenology constructed ways of looking as well as a language for identifying, understanding, and analyzing criminals and their actions. This work traces the long-lasting influence of phrenological visual culture and language in American culture, law, and medicine, as well as the practical uses of phrenology in courts, prisons, and daily life.
Book Synopsis The New Phrenology by : William R. Uttal
Download or read book The New Phrenology written by William R. Uttal and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Uttal is concerned that in an effort to prove itself a hard science, psychology may have thrown away one of its most important methodological tools—a critical analysis of the fundamental assumptions that underlie day-to-day empirical research. In this book Uttal addresses the question of localization: whether psychological processes can be defined and isolated in a way that permits them to be associated with particular brain regions. New, noninvasive imaging technologies allow us to observe the brain while it is actively engaged in mental activities. Uttal cautions, however, that the excitement of these new research tools can lead to a neuroreductionist wild goose chase. With more and more cognitive neuroscientific data forthcoming, it becomes critical to question their limitations as well as their potential. Uttal reviews the history of localization theory, presents the difficulties of defining cognitive processes, and examines the conceptual and technical difficulties that should make us cautious about falling victim to what may be a "neo-phrenological" fad.
Book Synopsis the phrenological journal, and magzine of moral science, for the year 1840 by :
Download or read book the phrenological journal, and magzine of moral science, for the year 1840 written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science by :
Download or read book The Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science by :
Download or read book Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Phrenology Proved, Illustrated, and Applied, Accompanied by a Chart by : Orson Squire Fowler
Download or read book Phrenology Proved, Illustrated, and Applied, Accompanied by a Chart written by Orson Squire Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Materials of the Mind by : James Poskett
Download or read book Materials of the Mind written by James Poskett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters stretching around the globe. Materials of the Mind tells the story of how phrenology changed the world--and how the world changed phrenology. This is a story of skulls from the Arctic, plaster casts from Haiti, books from Bengal, and letters from the Pacific. Drawing on far-flung museum and archival collections, and addressing sources in six different languages, Materials of the Mind is the first substantial account of science in the nineteenth century as part of global history. It shows how the circulation of material culture underpinned the emergence of a new materialist philosophy of the mind, while also demonstrating how a global approach to history could help us reassess issues such as race, technology, and politics today.
Book Synopsis Phrenological Controversy. Answer to Vindex, etc by : Orson Squire FOWLER
Download or read book Phrenological Controversy. Answer to Vindex, etc written by Orson Squire FOWLER and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated by :
Download or read book The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany by :
Download or read book The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Vindication of Phrenology by : William Mattieu Williams
Download or read book A Vindication of Phrenology written by William Mattieu Williams and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: