Download or read book Some Account of Phrenology Its Nature Principles and Uses written by William Collins Engledue and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Conquest of Mind written by David de Giustino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975. This study examines one of the popular scientific philosophies of the nineteenth-century. The first part deals with the reception and diffusion of phrenology in Britain, its usefulness to various professions, and its challenge to traditional religion. The second part considers the application of phrenology in two separate social movements: prison reform and national education. This title will be of interest to students of history and philosophy.
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.
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 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:
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.
Download or read book The Principles of Phrenology written by Sidney Smith (Phrenologist.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phrenology and how to use it in analyzing character written by Nicholas Morgan (Phrenologist.) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Phrenological Journal and Repository of Science Literature and General Intelligence written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science from the year 1846 VOL XIX written by The Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science from the year 1846 VOL.XIX and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Medical and Biological Libraries at University College London written by University College, London and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
