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Letourneau was General Secretary to the Anthropological Society of Paris.
Wozniak Mind & Body: Renè Descartes to William James #10. Largely devoted to discussion of the nervous system, animal automatism, and the reflex theory.The classic formulation of dual-aspect monism. Lewes held that mental and physical descriptions were not intertranslatable and, thus, that the psychological was not reducible to the physical.
Wozniak Mind & Body: Renè Descartes to William James #10.
Cordasco 00-2268. At the time Lydston was Professor of Criminal Anthropology at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery, State University of Illinois. He had earlier been resident surgeon at Blackwell's Island Penitentiary in New York.A classic period example of American Social Darwinism and Lombrosian degeneration theory. Chapters on sexual vice & crime; the race problem; treatment of sexual vice and crime [removal of the genitals recommended for rapists]; genius & degeneracy; characteristics of the criminal. The plates present numerous portraits depicting criminal and sexually deviant "types," including blacks and women.
"Lyell's summary discussion of the evidence for human antiquity 'introduced a wide readership to the new view and to the facts that supported it, thus laying the synthetic foundation for future work' (Grayson). This work also contained Lyell's first published statements about Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection" (GM 204.1).
An early modern attempt to apply Darwinian ideas to psychology and psychotherapy.
An application to medicine of Herbert Spencer's evolutionary ideas as presented in his Synthetic Philosophy. Mitchell was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Morgan's first major contribution to evolutionary and comparative psychology in which he laid the monistic foundations for his later work in comparative psychology. See Robert J. Richards's acute discussion in his Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior, pp. 379-382. An unaltered reprint of the first edition with an added brief preface in which Morgan notes that, though he's permitting the re-issue in a cheaper edition, his ideas on the issue have changed considerably.
A thoroughly Darwinist treatment, hence an incunable of Darwinist psychology, published before Darwin himself had applied evolutionary theory to human mental development in The Descent of Man and The Expression of the Emotions. A second edition of Murphy's book appeared in 1879; he also wrote The Scientific Bases of Faith (1873) and Natural Selection and Spiritual Freedom (1893).
Attempts to co-ordinate science with Christian belief. A quick scan suggests that the author espoused psychophysical parallelism. The last two chapters present arguments against life after death.
Parker was professor of zoology and director of the zoological laboratory at Harvard.
A graduate of the Princeton class of 1886 with his MD from Columbia, Paton pioneered the teaching of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School and was largely responsible for the creation of the psychopathic hospital and department of psychiatry at Hopkins. In 1910 he settled in Princeton, lectured there in neurobiology, and served as a consultant for mental health for students—the first counseling program set up for college students. This is his attempt to explain human behavior mostly in neurobiological and evolutionary terms—primitive to be sure, but still a kind of incunable of behavioral neurology and evolutionary psychology.
A Darwinian interpretation of the rise of civilization. Peake was former president of the Anthropological Section of the British Association; Fleure was Professor of Geography and Anthropology, University College of Wales.
GM 1706. Important essays by the pioneer British statistician and biographer of Galton. Includes "Variation in Man and Woman," the first study of anthropological populations to use scientific measures of variability.
The essays "Natural Selection and the Spirit World" and "Natural Selection and the History of Institutions" were added to the second edition.Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of St. Andrews and a prominent British Hegelian, Ritchie was the first British philosopher to try to meld Hegelianisn and Darwinism, albeit not very successfully. Ritchie's lasting contribution in this area was to point out that "in human society there is no single struggle for existence such as we see in the animal world, but a quite different and much more complexly conditioned struggle. … Along this line Ritchie rose above the naturalistic to what he called an idealistic evolutionism …" [Metz A Hundred Years of British Philosophy, p. 301].
Contains 23 papers including Frank A. Beach's "Evolutionary Aspects of Psychoendocrinology"; R. W. Sperry's "Developmental Basis of Behavior";, Pribram's "Comparative Neurology and the Evolution of Behavior"; Theodore H. Bullock's "Evolution of Neurophysiological Mechanisms"; C. R. Carpenter's "Territoriality: A Review of Concepts and Problems"; Hinde & Timbergen's "The Comparative Study of Species-Specific Behavior"; Mayr's "Behavior and Systematics"; Julian Huxley's "Cultural Process and Evolution:" Margaret Mead's "Cultural Determinants of Behavior."
The third volume was posthumously edited by C[onway] Lloyd Morgan. In the third volume Romanes defends the inheritance of acquired characteristics, but in a way—especially as edited by Morgan—that presages the idea of organic selection that was about to be articulated by Morgan and James Mark Baldwin ("the Baldwin effect"). See the various references in Robert Richards' Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior, esp. pp. 400 & 490.
The final volume in Romanes' important trilogy on evolutionary psychology, the first two of which were Animal Intelligence and Mental Evolution in Animals.
The first textbook devoted solely to the genetics of mental disorders.
A useful anthology of 60 articles, most not hitherto anthologized.
Shaler was Professor of Geology at Harvard and Dean of the Laurence Scientific School.
Contains Carel Ten Cate & Dave R. Voss' "Sexual Imprinting and Evolutionary Processes in Birds: A Reassessment"; Hal Whitehead & Susan Dufault's "Techniques for Analyzing Vertebrate Social Structure Using Idenitified Individuals: Review and Recommendations"; Nigel C. Bennett, Chris G. Faulkes, & Jennifer U. M. Jarvis' "Socially Induced Infertility, Incest Avoidance, and the Monopoly of Reproduction in Cooperatively Breeding African Mole-Rats, Family Bathyegidae"; Nicola s. Clayton & Jull A. Soha's "Memory in Avian Food Caching and Song Learning: A General Mechanism or Different Processes?"; Timothy J. Roper's "Olfaction in Birds"; Simon Thirgood, Jochen Langbein, & Rory J. Putman's "Intraspecific Variation in Ungulate Mating Strategies: The Case of the Flexible Fallow Deer."
Afro-Americana 1553-1906 #9547.
The most important pre-Darwinian American argument for the genetic unity of mankind. Smith explained racial diversity in terms of climate and "the state of society," rejecting both catastrophism and the notion of the separate creation of the races. Fay p. 222. In this enlarged second edition Smith argues even more stridently for the equality of races. President of Princeton and a moderate Calvinist, Smith was forced to resign in 1812.
Important texts in the canon of social darwinism. Respectively parts 1 and 4 of The Principles of Ethics.
The Library edition, published by Williams & Norgate, differs quite a bit from the earlier incarnations of his collected essays. Spencer has added seven essays written since 1882 ("Morals and Moral Sentiments"; "The Factors of Organic Evolution"; "Professor Green's Explanations"; "The Ethics of Kant"; "Absoute Political Ethics"; "From Freedom to Bondage"; and "The Americans") and tinkered with most of the others, in many cases adding postscripts. The first volume contains essays explicity devoted to evolution; the second volume essays devoted to philosophy, science, and aesthetics, most of which are implicitly evolutionary; the third volume consists of ethical, political, and social essays, most of which are written from an evolutionary point of view. Seven essays are omitted, the titles of which Spencer lists in the preface to volume one.
Facsimile reprints of the 1890 Library edition published by Williams & Norgate, which differs quite a bit from the earlier incarnations of his collected essays. Spencer has added seven essays written since 1882 ("Morals and Moral Sentiments"; "The Factors of Organic Evolution"; "Professor Green's Explanations"; "The Ethics of Kant"; "Absoute Political Ethics"; "From Freedom to Bondage"; and "The Americans") and tinkered with most of the others, in many cases adding postscripts. The first volume contains essays explicity devoted to evolution; the second volume with essays devoted to philosphy, science, and aesthetics, most of which are implicitly evolutionary; the third volume consists of ethical, political, and social essays, most of which are written from an evolutionary point of view. Seven essays are omitted, the titles of which Spencer lists in the preface to volume one.
Vastly enlarged from the first edition with the addition of over 300 pages of material.
Wozniak Mind & Body #15.
A monumentally important book, Spencer's Principles marked a turning point in the history of psychology by grounding psychology in evolutionary biology. "Spencer stressed three basic evolutionary principles that transformed his view of mind and brain into one to which the cortical localization of function was a simple logical corollary. In so doing he lay the groundwork for Hughlings Jackson's evolutionary conception of the nervous system and extension of the sensory-motor organizational hypothesis to the cerebrum. Spencer's key principles were adaptation, continuity, and development" [Wozniak Mind and Body, p. 19].
A vastly influential book in the history of neuroscience and neuropsychology, especially the greatly enlarged and completely rewritten 1872 second edition, with which this third (and last) edition is essentially a reprint, save for the addition to volume two of Part VIII, "Congruities." It was Spencer who inspired Hughlings Jackons to conceive of the brain's architecture and development in evolutionary terms.
(No British edition). Includes "Morals and Moral Sentiments"; "Origin of Animal Worship"; "The Classification of the Sciences"; "Postscript—Replying to Criticisms"; "Reasons for Dissenting from the Philosophy of Comte"; "Of Laws in General, and the Order of Their Discovery"; "The Genesis of Science."
Contains 16 essays, the longest being on copyright (46 pages), as well as articles on book-distribution, evolutionary ethics, and social evolution and social duty.
Stanley was an early (but not founding) member of the American Psychological Association. So far as we can ascertain, his only other separately appearing publications were An Outline Sketch, Psychology for Beginners, a pamphlet published by Open Court in 1899 that we've never seen, and the 1897 Essays on the Literary Art, also published by Sonnenschein. Some of the chapters (here rewritten) first appeared in Mind, The Monist, Science, Philosophical Review and Psychological Review.
- Contents: On the introspective study of feeling
- On primitive consciousness
- Theories of pleasure-pain
- The relation of feeling to pleasure-pain
- Early differentiation
- Representation and emotion
- Fear as primitive emotion
- The differentiation of fear
- Despair
- Anger
- Surprise, disappointment, emotion of novelty
- Retrospective emotion
- Desire
- Some remarks on attention
- Self feeling
- Induction and emotion
- The æsthetic psychosis
- The psychology of literary style
- Ethical emotion
- The expression of feeling.
A study of Erasmus and Charles Darwin.
Mostly consists of essays on aesthetics and criticism but also contains "The Philosophy of Evolution," "On the Application of Evolutionary Principles to Art and Literature," Realism and Idealism," and "On the Relation of Art to Science and Morality."
Contains Ilza Veith's "Creation and Evolution in the Far East"; J. Franklin Ewing's "Current Roman Catholic Thought on Evolution"; Jaroslav Pelikan's "Creation and Causality in the History of Christian Thought"; panels on the origin of life, the evolution of life, man as an organism, the evolution of mind, social and cultural evolution.
A classic statement of the nature/nurture problem.
Contains Howard Topoff's "Genes, Intelligence, and Race"; C. G. Gross' "Biology and Pop-Biology: Sex and Sexism"; John Gianutsos' "Brain Triggers Toward War?"; and Tobach's "Social Darwinism Rides Again." Critically examines genetic engineering, violence-reduing drugs, eugenic control, etc.
A physician, geologist, and nonconformist minister, Townshend describes how natural selection acts within an animal population and discusses its implications for socio-economic conditions in England. Townsend's ideas led indirectly to Malthus's "principle" of population, which in turn inspired Darwin's theory of evolution.
A popularly written account of evolution from protozoa to humans. Tyler was professor emeritus of biology at Amherst College.
An interesting contribution to the "unconscious memory" discussions of the period.
40 papers (18 in French, 21 in English, 1 in German). Contains Edwin Clarke's "The History and Sociology of the Medical Sciences"; D. Tatsumasa's "The Controversy between J. Liebig and L. Pasteur"; Frank Edgerton's "The Concept of Competititon in Nature before Darwin"; V. N. Goutina's "L. Pasteur et la microbiologie russe du XIXe siècle"; John R. Levine's "Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) and the Clinical Detection of Corneal Anomalies"; C. Limoges' "Darwin, Milne-Edwards et le principe de divergence"; X. Manojlenko's "Contribution of Russian Sientists in the Study of the Problem of Phytohormnones at the First States of Development"; Joseph Needham's "The Development of Botanical Taxonomy in Chinese Culture"; O. Viteslav's "New Findings Relating to Mendel's Attitude towards the Theory of Evolution:" Ruth L. Schwartz Cohen's "Sir Francis Galton and the Continuity of Germplasm: A Biological Idea with Political Roots"; J. Stannard's "Bartholomaeus Anglicus and the Thirteenth Century Botanical Nomenclature"; M. Teichs "The History of Modern Biochemistry. The Second Phase: C. 1920-1940/45"; J. Thédoridès' "Humboldt zoologiste"; R. M. Young's "'Non-scientific' Factors in the Darwinian Debate."
Contains N. T. Feather's "Attitudes Toward High Achievers and Reactions to Their Fall: Theory and Research Concerning Tall Poppies"; Douglas T. Kenrick's "Evolutionary Social Psychology: From Sexual Selection to Social Cognition"; Norbert Schwartz's "Judgment in a Social Context: Biases, Shortcomings, and the Logic of Conversation"; Diane N. Ruble's "A Phase Model of Transactions: Cognitive and Motivational Consequences"; John H. Fleming's "Multiple-Audience Problems, Tactical Communication, and Social Interaction: A Relational-Regulation Perspective"; Brenda Major's "From Social Inequality to Personal Entitlement: The Role of Social Comparisions, Legitimacy Appraisals, and Group Membership"; Charles Stangor & James E. Lange's Mental Representations of Social Groups: Advances in Understanding Stereotypes and Stereotyping."Section 1: Evolution, Darwinism, Social Darwinism, Sociobiology (A-K)
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