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Essays On The Natural Origins Of The Mind
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Download or read book Late Migrations written by Margaret Renkl and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: “Has the makings of an American classic.” —Ann Patchett Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive father—and of the bittersweet moments that accompany a child’s transition to caregiver. And here, braided into the overall narrative, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. As these two threads haunt and harmonize with each other, Renkl suggests that there is astonishment to be found in common things: in what seems ordinary, in what we all share. For in both worlds—the natural one and our own—“the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love’s own twin.” Gorgeously illustrated by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, Late Migrations is an assured and memorable debut. “Magnificent . . . Readers will savor each page and the many gems of wisdom they contain.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Book Synopsis Essays in the History of Ideas by : Arthur O. Lovejoy
Download or read book Essays in the History of Ideas written by Arthur O. Lovejoy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1948. In the first essay of this collection, Lovejoy reflects on the nature, methods, and difficulties of the historiography of ideas. He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. One phenomenon is the presence and influence of the same presuppositions or other operative "ideas" in very diverse provinces of thought and in different periods. Another is the role of semantic transitions and confusions, of shifts and of ambiguities in the meanings of terms, in the history of thought and taste. A third phenomenon is the internal tensions or waverings in the mind of almost every individual writer—sometimes discernible even in a single writing or on a single page—arising from conflicting ideas or incongruous propensities of feeling or taste to which the writer is susceptible. These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.
Book Synopsis Steps to an Ecology of Mind by : Gregory Bateson
Download or read book Steps to an Ecology of Mind written by Gregory Bateson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new Foreword by his daughter, Mary Katherine Bateson. 5 line drawings.
Book Synopsis Natural History Essays (hb) by : Henry David Thoreau
Download or read book Natural History Essays (hb) written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the tradition of literary naturalists and writers who embrace the natural world as the setting for some of our most euphoric and serious experiences. These books map the intimate connections between the human and the natural world. Literary naturalists transcend political boundaries, social concerns, and historical milieus; they speak for what Henry Beston called the "other nations" of the planet. Their message acquires more weight and urgency as wild places become increasingly scarce.
Book Synopsis Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology and geology by : John Hunter
Download or read book Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology and geology written by John Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.
Book Synopsis Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology v. 1 by : John Hunter
Download or read book Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology v. 1 written by John Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Essays on the Nature of Propositions by : David Hunter
Download or read book New Essays on the Nature of Propositions written by David Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the emergence of new theorists. Propositions have been invoked to explain thought and cognition, the nature and attribution of mental states, language and communication, and in philosophical treatments of truth, necessity and possibility. According to Frege and Russell, and their followers, propositions are structured mind- and language-independent abstract objects which have essential and intrinsic truth-conditions. Some recent theorizing doubts whether propositions really exist and, if they do, asks how we can grasp, entertain and know them? But most of the doubt concerns whether the abstract approach to propositions can really explain them. Are propositions really structured, and if so where does their structure come from? How does this structure form a unity, and does it need to? Are the representational and structural properties of propositions really independent of those of thinking and language? What does it mean to say that an object occurs in or is a constituent of a proposition? The volume takes up these and other questions, both as they apply to the abstract object approach and also to the more recently developed approaches. While the volume as a whole does not definitively and unequivocally reject the abstract objection approach, for the most part, the papers explore new critical and constructive directions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
Download or read book Emerson's Essays written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was the most influential American writer of the nineteenth century. Poets such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens descend from Emerson, as do thinkers such as John Dewey and William James. This volume of critical interpretations focuses on Emerson's Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), which encompass some of his most important works-"History," "Self-Reliance," "Circles," "The Poet," and "Experience" among others. These essays exemplify Emerson's distinctively rich prose and his radical affirmation of the strength of the individual. The analyses and appreciations collected here place Emerson's essays in the context of literary and intellectual history, grapple with the implications of his epigrams and tropes, and link his shifts of perspective and tone to the changes in Emerson's life. Together they illuminate the complexity and scope of the seminal works of America's most influential writer and thinker. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Philosophical Essays by : Dugald Stewart
Download or read book Philosophical Essays written by Dugald Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind [i.e. "Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man" and "Essays on the Active Powers of Man"]; to which are Added, An Essay on Quantity, and an Analysis of Aristotle's Logic by : Thomas Reid
Download or read book Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind [i.e. "Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man" and "Essays on the Active Powers of Man"]; to which are Added, An Essay on Quantity, and an Analysis of Aristotle's Logic written by Thomas Reid and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by : Julian Jaynes
Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Book Synopsis Forming the Mind by : Henrik Lagerlund
Download or read book Forming the Mind written by Henrik Lagerlund and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the internal senses, the mind/body problem and other problems associated with the concept of mind as it developed from Avicenna to the medical Enlightenment. The book collects essays from scholars in this promising field of research. It brings together scholars working on the same issues in the Arabic, Jewish and Western philosophical traditions. This collection opens up new and interesting perspectives.
Book Synopsis The Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays by : Dugald Stewart
Download or read book The Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays written by Dugald Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Development of the Natural History Essay in American Literature ... by : Philip Marshall Hicks
Download or read book The Development of the Natural History Essay in American Literature ... written by Philip Marshall Hicks and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I Have Landed by : Stephen Jay Gould
Download or read book I Have Landed written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gould’s final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he ever published.
Book Synopsis The Natural Origins of Economics by : Margaret Schabas
Download or read book The Natural Origins of Economics written by Margaret Schabas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: References to the economy are ubiquitous in modern life, and virtually every facet of human activity has capitulated to market mechanisms. In the early modern period, however, there was no common perception of the economy, and discourses on money, trade, and commerce treated economic phenomena as properties of physical nature. Only in the early nineteenth century did economists begin to posit and identify the economy as a distinct object, divorcing it from natural processes and attaching it exclusively to human laws and agency. In The Natural Origins of Economics, Margaret Schabas traces the emergence and transformation of economics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from a natural to a social science. Focusing on the works of several prominent economists—David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill—Schabas examines their conceptual debt to natural science and thus locates the evolution of economic ideas within the history of science. An ambitious study, The Natural Origins of Economics will be of interest to economists, historians, and philosophers alike.