Download or read book Thomas Hardy s Brains written by Suzanne Keen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reevaluates Hardy's representations of minds, the will, and consciousness (and nescience) in the context of Victorian brain science and Victorian medical neurology.

Download or read book Thomas Hardy and History written by Fred Reid and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the questions 'What did Thomas Hardy think about history and how did this enter into his writings?' Scholars have sought answers in 'revolutionary', 'gender', 'postcolonial' and 'millennial' criticism, but these are found to be unsatisfactory. Fred Reid is a historian who seeks answers by setting Hardy more fully in the discourses of philosophical history and the domestic and international affairs of Britain. He shows how Hardy worked out, from the late 1850s, his own 'meliorist' philosophy of history and how it is inscribed in his fiction. Rooted in the idea of cyclical history as propounded by the Liberal Anglican historians, it was adapted after his loss of faith through reading the works of Auguste Comte, George Drysdale and John Stuart Mill and used to defend the right of individuals to break with the Victorian sexual code and make their own 'experiments in living'.

Download or read book Brain Diversions written by David Bobey and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents questions pertaining to a wide array of subjects, including art, music, literature, geography, history, biology, chemistry/math, sports, entertainment, and miscellany. There are 200 questions per subject. The vast majority of questions involve the selection of false statements, true statements, correct associations, incorrect associations, choosing the correct answer from information supplied, matching, and event sequencing. This book is an ideal companion to a party, corporate meeting ice breaker, etc.

Download or read book Brain Teasers in English written by Gratian Vas and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Test your skills with this fascinating collection of brain teasers in English. Variety is the key word here. A fascinating play of words that quizzes your mind and sets it ticking for a quick-fire solution to each puzzle. So sharpen your pencil and your wits, and get going with this engrossing book of delightful teasers.

Download or read book Fundamentals of Cognitive Science written by Thomas Hardy Leahey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentals of Cognitive Science draws on research from psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, linguistics, evolution, and neuroscience to provide an engaging and student-friendly introduction to this interdisciplinary field. While structured around traditional cognitive psychology topics, from attention, learning theory, and memory to information processing, thinking, and decision making, the book also looks at neural networks, cognitive neuroscience, embodied cognition, and magic to illustrate cognitive science principles. The book is organized around the history of thinking about the mind and its relation to the world. It considers the evolution of cognition and how it demonstrates how our current thinking about cognitive processes is derived from pre-scientific philosophies and common sense, through psychologists’ empirical inquiries into mind and behavior as they pursued a science of cognition and the construction of artificial intelligences. The architectures of cognition are also applied throughout, and the book proposes a synthesis of them, from traditional symbol system architectures to recent work in embodied cognition and Bayesian predictive processing. Practical and policy implications are also considered but solutions are left for the readers to determine. Using extended case studies to address the most important themes, ideas, and findings, this book is suitable for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology and related fields. It is also suitable for general readers interested in an accessible treatment of cognitive science and its practical implications. Please visit www.fundamentalsofcognitivescience.com for further resources to accompany the book.

Download or read book The Mind As a Scientific Object written by Christina E. Erneling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What holds together the various fields that are supposed to consititute the general intellectual discipline that people now call cognitive science? In this book, Erneling and Johnson identify two problems with defining this discipline. First, some theorists identify the common subject matter as the mind, but scientists and philosophers have not been able to agree on any single, satisfactory answer to the question of what the mind is. Second, those who speculate about the general characteristics that belong to cognitive science tend to assume that all the particular fields falling under the rubric--psychology, linguistics, biology, and son on--are of roughly equal value in their ability to shed light on the nature of mind. This book argues that all the cognitive science disciplines are not equally able to provide answers to ontological questions about the mind, but rather that only neurophysiology and cultural psychology are suited to answer these questions. However, since the cultural account of mind has long been ignored in favor of the neurophysiological account, Erneling and Johnson bring together contributions that focus especially on different versions of the cultural account of the mind.

Download or read book Thomas Hardy and Animals written by Anna West and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy and Animals looks at creatures in Hardy's novels, examining human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities.

Download or read book Understanding Your DNA and Mind written by Bob Ainuu Afamasaga and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Don't You Have It Yet Okay, name something you inspire, want, need, or desire? It may be a weight-loss goal, a money goal, a sales goal, a new house, a job, a business etc. It's entirely up to you. . How much money are you seeking? A hundred dollars? Thousands? Now let me ask you a blunt question. Why don't you have it yet? The fault isn't with the economy, your parents, your spouse, your neighbor, your mayor, the president or anything outside of you. The answered is in your DNA and MIND or Blood Type and Personality. No, it's not in your thoughts, the Law of; Attraction, Opposites, Gratitude, Giving, Association, Power of NOW, Action, Focus, Clear Vision, or Mentors or Role Models. The roadblock is deeper. It's in 1 of the 24 NEWLY discovered Human DNA and MIND sequence which also determines your Blood Type and Personality. 1 of these DNA and MIND sequence controls and manages YOUR STRENGHTS or SUCCESSFUL PREDISPOSITIONS that you have to TURN-ON to get what your want, need, desire or inspire'. How do you find out YOUR specific DNA and MIND sequence that controls and manages your STRENGHTS or SUCCESSFUL PREDISPOSITIONS? Here's how. 1. Take the Do You Know Who You Are? Survey inside. 2. Get your Blood Type Test results. 3. Confirm BOTH Step 1 and Step 2 results with the 24 Human DNA and MIND Table 4. Read this book and supplemental materials to understand and apply your personal SWS to inspire, want, need, or desire anything life. Read this book! The Understanding Your DNA and MIND is by far one of the best books I have read on the subject of deliberate creation. Bob Afamasaga does all the work for you by summarizing the main points of some of the best authors, teachers and researchers in the field of DNA, MIND, and success. One of the best things I really like about this book is Bob's writing style. He takes complex subjects and makes them easy to understand and apply. If you fully grasp this book, your life will never be the same again. Dr. Robert Anthony, Acknowledged inspiration behind THE SECRET, Best-Selling author of 15 books and Beyond Positive Thinking and The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence.

Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy written by Dr Rosemarie Morgan and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together eminent Hardy scholars, The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy offers an overview of Hardy scholarship and suggests new directions in Hardy studies. While several collections have surveyed the Hardy landscape, no previous volume has been composed specifically for scholars and advanced graduate students. This companion is specially designed to aid original research on Hardy and serve as the critical basis for Hardy studies in the new millennium.

Download or read book Brain Mind and Medicine written by Robert Guskind and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Richet was one of the most remarkable figures in the history of medical science. He is best known for his work on the body's immune reactions to foreign substances for which he won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1913. Richet was also a poet, playwright, historian, bibliographer, political activist, classical scholar, and pioneer in aircraft design.Brain, Mind, and Medicine is the first major biography of Richet in any language. Wolf brilliantly situates Richet's work in the intellectual currents of Europe during the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Richet was a contemporary of Wilhelm Wundt and William James. All three considered psychology to be an aspect of physiology governed by biological laws. But while James and Wundt considered consciousness as a process influenced by experience without much reference to neural structures, Richet's focus was on the brain itself as shaped by genetics and experience and serving as the organ of the mind.Brain, Mind, and Medicine illuminates a significant chapter in scientific and cultural history. It should be read by medical scientists, historians, and individuals interested in medicine and psychology.

Download or read book Getting Inside Your Head written by Lisa Zunshine and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the psychological concept called theory of mind, Lisa Zunshine explores the appeal of movies, novels, paintings, musicals, and reality television. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL We live in other people's heads: avidly, reluctantly, consciously, unaware, mistakenly, and inescapably. Our social life is a constant negotiation among what we think we know about each other's thoughts and feelings, what we want each other to think we know, and what we would dearly love to know but don't. Cognitive scientists have a special term for the evolved cognitive adaptation that makes us attribute mental states to other people through observation of their body language; they call it theory of mind. Getting Inside Your Head uses research in theory of mind to look at movies, musicals, novels, classic Chinese opera, stand-up comedy, mock-documentaries, photography, and reality television. It follows Pride and Prejudice’s Mr. Darcy as he tries to conceal his anger, Tyler Durden as he lectures a stranger at gunpoint in Fight Club, and Ingrid Bergman as she fakes interest in horse races in Notorious. This engaging book exemplifies the new interdisciplinary field of cognitive cultural studies, demonstrating that collaboration between cognitive science and cultural studies is both exciting and productive.

Download or read book Consciousness Reconnected written by Derek Steinberg and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is consciousness? The answer to this question has eluded thinkers for millennia. In modern times, scientists have struggled to find a complete answer, often hampered by the limitations of their particular specialisms. Derek Steinberg's unique approach constructs a multi-faceted model of mind involving science and the arts, from which the sense of personal identity emerges. In a masterful tour-de-force, he establishes links between otherwise distinct or even conflicting disciplines. In this radical departure, the author argues that the arts, literature and human culture in the broadest sense make their contributions to understanding consciousness and the sense of self, though they are rarely acknowledged in mainstream debate. Rather than focusing only on what lies between the ears, Steinberg casts a wide net. He explores the connections between sciences and the humanities as he takes the debate into new areas. This book is fascinating and enlightening reading for everyone interested in human nature and the psyche, as well as for students and professionals in the fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, medicine, social science, anthropology, philosophy and the arts, for whom the book is a breakthrough in the challenge of cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Download or read book Ambivalence in Hardy written by S. Dutta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines the critical debate regarding Hardy's attitude to women: apologist or misogynist? With the help of manuscript evidence and references to Hardy's autobiography, letters, literary notebooks, marginalia, and the letters of his wives, this book combines a biographical approach with a feminist reading. Significant space is devoted to the 'minor' novels, the short stories, and to Hardy's real life literary relations with his contemporary women writers, his protégées and his two 'scribbling' wives, to balance the hitherto exclusive focus on the 'major' novels.

Download or read book Thomas Hardy Psychological Novelist written by Rosemary Sumner and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-06-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy written by Thomas Hardy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Phantom of Thomas Hardy written by Floyd Skloot and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This witty novel is a literary romp through Dorsetshire and Thomas Hardy's tangled love life.

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