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Author : George Combe
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Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A System of Phrenology written by George Combe and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael L. Anderson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262028107
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
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.
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107009979
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe in Context written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spend the holidays with the Master of the Macabre
Author : Paul Eling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000388387
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Gall, Spurzheim, and the Phrenological Movement written by Paul Eling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1790s in Vienna, German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) came forth with a new doctrine dealing with mind, brain and behavior—one that could account for individual differences. He maintained that there are many independent faculties of mind, each associated with a separate part of the brain. He fine-tuned his ideas and published two sets of books presenting them after he and his assistant, Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, settled in Paris in 1807. Gall's ideas had many supporters but were controversial and unsettling to others. In particular, the opposition ridiculed his belief that skull features reflect the growth of specific, underlying cortical organs, and hence correlate with personality traits (i.e., his ‘bumpology’). Gall’s fundamental ideas about the mind and organization of the brain were debated across the globe, and they also began to be exploited by unscrupulous businessmen, ‘professors’ who ‘read skulls’ for a living. But, as some historians have shown, his ideas about mind, brain and behavior led to the modern neurosciences. The chapters collected in this volume provide new insights into Gall’s thinking and what Spurzheim did, and the faddish movement called ‘phrenology’, which originated as a science of humankind but became a popular source of entertainment. All chapters were originally published in various issues of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.
Author : Roger Cooter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521227438
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (274 download)
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.
Author : Louis Allen Vaught
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Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vaught's Practical Character Reader written by Louis Allen Vaught and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this book is to acquaint all with the elements of human nature and enable them to read these elements in all men, women and children in all countries"--Preface.
Author : James Poskett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226820645
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
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.
Author : George Combe
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Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book Lectures on Phrenology written by George Combe and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William R. Uttal
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262710102
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)
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.
Author : Orson Squire Fowler
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780877541431
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Phrenology written by Orson Squire Fowler and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 1969 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Finger
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ISBN 13 : 0190464623
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Franz Joseph Gall written by Stanley Finger and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Joseph Gall, a dedicated physician and scientist, is unfortunately most remembered for his controversial doctrine that would become known as phrenology. Although often portrayed as a discredited buffoon who believed he could assess a person's strengths and weaknesses by measuring cranial bumps, Gall strove to answer pressing questions about the mind, brain, and behavior. His career began in Vienna during the 1790s and ended with his death in Paris in 1828. This work presents a fresh look at Gall, both his life and seminal ideas, some of which--for example, cortical localization of function--would become tenets of modern behavioral neuroscience.
Author : Courtney E. Thompson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978813082
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
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.
Author : Samuel Roberts Wells
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Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (918 download)
Download or read book How to Read Character written by Samuel Roberts Wells and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wastell, David
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447322347
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Blinded by Science written by Wastell, David and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's no hotter area of science, at least as far as the general media and laypeople are concerned, than neuroscience--every day we hear of dramatic, surprising discoveries that seem to have the potential to utterly change our understanding of how the mind works. This book offers the first thorough review of such claims and the new biological science behind them. It examines the actual and potential applications of neuroscience within social policy and the impact of neuroscientific discoveries on long-standing moral debates and professional practices throughout social work, mental health practice, and criminal justice.
Author : George Combe
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Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Elements of Phrenology written by George Combe and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johann Gaspar Spurzheim
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Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Outlines of Phrenology written by Johann Gaspar Spurzheim and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Simms
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Total Pages : 254 pages
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Download or read book Human Faces, what They Mean written by Joseph Simms and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
