Download or read book Essays on Phrenology written by George Combe and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Phrenology written by Stackpool Edward O'Dell and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Phrenology or an Inquiry into the principles and utility of the system of Drs Gall and Spurzheim and into the objections made against it With a plate written by George COMBE (Phrenologist.) and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Horae Phrenologicae Being Three Phrenological Essays written by John Epps and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Horae Phrenologic being three phrenological essays I On morality II On the best means of obtaining happiness III On veneration written by John EPPS (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 264 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.

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.

Download or read book The World s Best Essays from the Earliest Period to the Present Time written by David Josiah Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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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.

Download or read book Paracritical Hinge written by Nathaniel Mackey and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interrelated pieces highlighting Nathaniel Mackey’s multifaceted work as writer and critic. It embraces topics ranging from Walt Whitman’s interest in phrenology to the marginalization of African American experimental writing; from Kamau Brathwaite’s “calibanistic” language practices to Federico García Lorca’s flamenco aesthetic of duende and its continuing repercussions; from H. D.’s desert measure and coastal way of knowing to the altered spatial disposition of Miles Davis’s trumpet sound; from Robert Duncan’s serial poetics to diasporic syncretism; from the lyric poem’s present-day predicaments to gnosticism. Offering illuminating commentary on these and other artists including Amiri Baraka, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Wilson Harris, Jack Spicer, John Coltrane, Jay Wright, and Bob Kaufman, Paracritical Hinge also sheds light on Mackey’s own work as a poet, fiction writer, and editor.

Download or read book The Ethnological Society and Phrenology a Paper Entitled Physiognomy Popular and Scientific with a Report of the Discussion which Followed on the Evening of 24th May 1864 Before the Ethnological Society written by Cornelius Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Phrenology written by Severiano Martinez and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Phrenology, the author’s literary debut, we are jettisoned into a world of inane, banal, bizarre, and sometimes dangerous speech and character study. Part poetry, part narrative fiction, Phrenology at times recalls Vonnegut's fluctuating sense of character development, portraying the paranoid, the perverse, and the misguided at a rapid and entertaining pace.

Download or read book Crania Americana Or A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America written by Samuel George Morton and published by Philadelphia : J. Dobson ; London : Simpkin, Marshall. This book was released on 1839 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morton had a collection of about 1,000 skulls and was the most eminent craniologist in the United States in his time period.

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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.

Download or read book Engaging Colonial Knowledge written by R. Roque and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.