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Author : John Dunn Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Phrenology: Fad and Science written by John Dunn Davies and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Dunn Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Phrenology written by John Dunn Davies and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Grim
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438404981
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Science and the Occult written by Patrick Grim and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-07-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book both introduces the philosophy of science through examination of the occult and examines the occult rigorously enough to raise central issues in the philosophy of science. Placed in the context of the occult, philosophy of science issues become immediately understandable and forcefully compelling. Divergent views on astrology, parapsychology, and quantum mechanics mysticism emphasize topics standard to the philosophy of science. Such issues as confirmation and selection for testing, causality and time, explanation and the nature of scientific laws, the status of theoretical entities, the problem of demarcation, theory and observation, and science and values are discussed. Significantly revised, this second edition presents an entirely new section of quantum mechanics and mysticism including instructions from N. David Mermin for constructing a device which dramatically illustrates the genuinely puzzling phenomena of quantum mechanics. A more complete and current review of research on astrology has been included in this new edition, and the section on the problem of demarcation has been broadened.
Author : John Dunn Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Phrenology, Fad and Science, a 19th-century American Crusade, by John D. Davies written by John Dunn Davies and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orson Squire Fowler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Phrenology Proved, Illustrated, and Applied ... written by Orson Squire Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 444 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 : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486131629
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : 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 : 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 : Sally Satel
Publisher : Basic Civitas Books
ISBN 13 : 0465018777
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Brainwashed written by Sally Satel and published by Basic Civitas Books. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how the explanatory power of brain scans in particular and neuroscience more generally has been overestimated, arguing that the overzealous application of brain science has undermined notions of free will and responsibility.
Author : David Turnbull
Publisher : Deakin University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Phrenology, the First Science of Man written by David Turnbull and published by Deakin University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced for unit HUW209 (Nature and human nature) offered by the School of Humanities in Deakin University's Open Campus Program.
Author : John White (Phrenologist.)
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Science of Phrenology. (The Harmony Between Phrenology and the Scriptures.). written by John White (Phrenologist.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Fabian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226233499
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Skull Collectors written by Ann Fabian and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton’s skull wound up in a collector’s cabinet, for Morton himself had collected hundreds of skulls over the course of a long career. Friends, diplomats, doctors, soldiers, and fellow naturalists sent him skulls they gathered from battlefields and burial grounds across America and around the world. With The Skull Collectors, eminent historian Ann Fabian resurrects that popular and scientific movement, telling the strange—and at times gruesome—story of Morton, his contemporaries, and their search for a scientific foundation for racial difference. From cranial measurements and museum shelves to heads on stakes, bloody battlefields, and the “rascally pleasure” of grave robbing, Fabian paints a lively picture of scientific inquiry in service of an agenda of racial superiority, and of a society coming to grips with both the deadly implications of manifest destiny and the mass slaughter of the Civil War. Even as she vividly recreates the past, Fabian also deftly traces the continuing implications of this history, from lingering traces of scientific racism to debates over the return of the remains of Native Americans that are held by museums to this day. Full of anecdotes, oddities, and insights, The Skull Collectors takes readers on a darkly fascinating trip down a little-visited but surprisingly important byway of American history.
Author : Charles Colbert
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807846735
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (467 download)
Download or read book A Measure of Perfection written by Charles Colbert and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its widespread popularity in antebellum America, phrenology has rarely been taken seriously as a cultural phenomenon. Charles Colbert seeks to redress this neglect by demonstrating the important contributions the theory made to artistic developmen
