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9 papers including Akishige's "A Historical Survey of the Psychological Studies on Zen."
Classic experimental studies of personality.
Origins of Cyberspace #435.
"An examination of the brain as a mechanism, and an explanation of how it developed the ability to adapt and learn through what Ashby called 'the principle of ultrastability.' As one of the best-known exponents of cybernetics, Ashby favored using feedback mechanisms or learning robots to construct artificial intelligence elecromechanically, rather than programming computers for the purpose" [Hood & Norman Origins citing the 1952 first edition].
The second part on induction also appeared the same year.
The first book to include "social psychology" in its title and a work whose influence persists today in Kohlberg's studies of moral development in children, seriously influencing along the way G. H. Mead, Piaget, and Vygotsky."In Baldwin's view, social adaptation took place through a continuous three-phase dialectical process in which children acted as others did, experienced themslves in ways that weresmlar to othrs, and assumed that the experiences of others were similar to their own. … Making use of his theory of social adaptation and his stage theory, Baldwin … addressed the development of a remarkable number of social and psychological phenomena[, for many of which his] discussions constituted the first developmental, or in some cases, even the first systematic psychological treatment they had ever received" [Wozniak Classics in Psychology 1855-1914: Historical Essays, p. 138-39].
McHenry pp. 318 & 474; Haymaker & Schiller Founders pp. 405-07 (one of the weaker biographies). Bastian's most important contribution to theoretical neurology, of which discipline he was one of the pioneers in Britain.Professor of Pathological Anatomy at University College Hospital London, Bastian made classic contributions to aphasia and clinical neurology, performing fundamental studies of spinal paralysis and being the first to show that with total section of the upper spinal cord reflexes below the level of the lesion are lost. His alternate career, though a bit wacky, was equally interesting: Bastian was probably the last important scientist to believe in heterogenesis (the production of living forms from the unliving), about which he wrote a number of quirky, interesting books, often taking issue with Pasteur.|
Bechterev's principal psychological work. Issued in the U.S. by International Publishers with sheets imported from this British edition.The pioneer of Russian objective experimental psychology, Bechterev founded the first psychophysiological laboratory in Russia & coined the term 'reflexology' in the present work.
Bechterev's principal psychological work.
The pioneer of Russian objective experimental psychology, Bechterev founded the first psychophysiological laboratory in Russia & coined the term 'reflexology' in the present work, the Russian edition of which appeared in 1917.
GM-5 1258 (citing the 2nd edition). Identical with the text of the 1830 second edition, which presented all of Bell's papers read to the Royal Society up to then, plus his 1832 paper "On the Organs of Human Voice" and 1838 "Three Paper on the Nerves of the Encephalon, as Distinguished from Those Arising from the Spinal Marrow" plus added plates."Records Bell's demonstration that the fifth cranial nerve has a sensory-motor function, his discovery of "Bell's nerve" and the motor nerve of the face, lesion of which causes facial paralysis (Bell's palsy)" [GM].
Gunter, Bergson Bibliography #102. Translation of Introduction à la métaphysique (Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 1903). Issued the same year by Putnam's in New York in an authorized translation by T. E. Hulme.
An important essay in which Bergson develops his theory of knowledge.
Published without Berkeley's name on the title-pages. Volume two contains the third edition of A New Theory of Vision, with a separate title-page. Widely influential the New Theory is generally regarded as the most significant directly psychological text published in the 18th century.Written during his stay in Newport, Rhode Island, this is Berkeley's attempt to refute the materialism of the free-thinkers.
An instant classic when published with monographic chapters covering vision, color perception, audition, space perception, kinesthesis, motion, cutaneous sensitivity, visual & speech perception, autditory information processing, tactual perception, etc.
Based on articles originally published in the Inquirer, Journal of Education, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish World, Occident, and American Israelite, this combines all of Mary Boole's interests in a single work, from logic and mathematical psychology, to spritualism and pedagogy.
Mary Boole's elementary exposition of the psychological basis of mathematics, primarily geometry and calculus, written deliberately in a style accessible to the general reader. Largely based, as the title suggests, on the pioneering work of her husband in mathematical logic.
Boring's first extensive monograph, preceded only by some reviews and two papers (one co-authored with Madison Bentley).
Jessop page 105; Wozniak Mind & Body page 36; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 752-3; Diamond 12.8. Perhaps the last truly important philosophical and psychological work from the Scottish Enlightenment and a book that profoundly influenced thinking in both fields, especially in 19th century America, the predominant philosophy & psychology of which was Scotch-realist until nearly the end of the century.Important in the development of association psychology, Brown solved the problem of objective reference by appealing to the felt resistance of muscular exertion. for the origin or our idea of an external world. Brown linked Berkeley to Lotze und Wundt through his theory of space perception and furthered associationism by postulating the secondary laws of association, termed by Brown laws of suggestion: relative duration of the sensations; their relative liveliness, frequency, & recency; the reinforcement of one idea by many others; individual differences; the attending circumstances. His primary laws were similarity; contrast; spatial & temporal contiguity.
Wozniak Mind & Body #47 & page 47.
"Under the stimulus of a promised professorship in a medical school at Transylvania that never became a reality, Buchanan compiled a series of lectures elucidating his views on physiological psychology. These he published in 1812 as [this book], a work that is unquestionably the most original American contribution to psychology before William James. … Among many original contributions, Buchanan seems to have been the first to articulate the Law of Exercise usually attributed to Thomas Brown" [Wozniak, p. 47]. Buchanan attempted to construct a materialist monism — ultimately to become the implicit metaphysical substructure of medicine, psychiatry, and psychology — years before Johannes Müller, Griesinger, and Virchow. Woodbridge Riley called Buchanan "the earliest native physiological psychologist."
Harkness Butler Bibliography, p. 36.
Butler adopted a radical form of Lamarckianism, contending that much of inheritance was based on habit making a feature ingrained, so that the trait could be passed on to future generations. Originally, Butler thought that he was adding an important modification to Darwin's theory — but then he discovered that Lamarck had proposed such a theory 50 years earlier. He read Mivart's Genesis of Species, with its powerful critique of natural selection, and concluded that Darwin was a charlatan who had taken all his good ideas from Lamarck except for natural selection. By the time it appeared in 1878 Butler's book had transformed from a companion to Darwin into a fierce attack. What Butler most objected to was the exclusion of mind from a Darwinian universe. He continued to write books promoting his own, private vision of evolution — Evolution Old and New in 1879; Unconscious Memory in 1880; and Luck, or Cunning? in 1887 — all championing his version of Lamarck's theory, all excoriating Darwin, and all completely unsuccessful.
19 lines + heading and salutation. Concerning arrangements for lectures he is to give in Leeds and Bradford.
Carpenter here argues that heat and light suffice to explain the vitality of living forms and that no additional "vital" principle is required.At the time of writing, Examiner in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy in the University of London, Carpenter is most famous in the history of psychology & science for being one of the first (along with Thomas Laycock) to articulate the idea of unconscious cerebration (in his 1874 Principles of Mental Physiology, but first introduced in the outline of psychology section of the 1852 4th edition of his Principles of Human Physiology).
Shaw & Shoemaker #8164. First published in England in 1772 with several American editions, this helped shape the direction of education for women.
OCLC records only 5 copies: Meadville-Lombard Theol Schl; Rutgers; Kent State; and the Universities of Chicago & New Orleans. Apparently no copies are in American medical libraries. Each title with a separate title-page and pagination. Reissued later by Andrus in Hartford, CT with a number of printings between 1841 and 1851. The last incarnation of this combination text was in 1859 in Louisville, KY under the cover title "Illustrated Treasury of Science, Art and Family Literature" (with Jethro Jackson's text on General Literature, Science and Art added).The De Stael work includes her essay "Reflection upon Suicide." The full separate title for Foster's work is Essays in a Series of Letters, on the Following Subject: On a Man's Writing Memoirs of Himself. On Decision of Character. On the Application of the Epithet Romantic. On Some of the Causes by which Evangelical Religion has been Rendered Less Acceptable to Persons of Cultivated Taste. Both Macnish titles issued together here are of some consequence in the history of psychiatry (the respective first dates being 1830 & 1827).
Specially commissioned papers by an all star cast published to celebrate the first fifty years of the journal plus Dallenbach's history of the journal. A half-dozen of the papers are in German. Includes papers by Jaensch, Claparède, Bartlett, Woodworth, G. W. Allport, Yerkes, Köhler, Spearman, Zener, Boring, Washburn, et al.
Mostly an application of evolutionary theory to human affairs.
Davies was Professor of Philosophy in the Ohio State University. Only one other book appeared in Baldwin's series—Baldwin's own (now very scarce) Darwin and the Humanities, also 1909.
A pioneer systematic treatment of individual differences, preceded by Dodge's scarce 1927 treatise with a similar title published by Columbia University Press.
Donkin was Medical Adviser to the Prison Commissioners for England and Wales; Member of the Prisons Board; and Consulting Physician to Westminster Hospital & the East London Hospital for Children.
Engle was a doctoral student at Hopkins when he vanity-published this book, in which he attempts to ground psychology and philosophy on his concept of "Interest," a kind of super-intentionality. Contains discussions of James, Baldwin, Stout, Bradley, Lloyd Morgan, and others.
Includes W. B. Carpenter's "Unconscious Action of the Brain" and "Epidemic Delusions" (both being lectures delivered in 1871), as well as Virchow's "The Cranial Affinities of Man and the Ape."
GM-5 1409; Clarke & O'Malley Human Brain & Spinal Cord, 2nd ed. pp.513-18 & 683-89; Haymaker pp.513-18; McHenry pp.195-98; Norman Catalog pp.219-23.Ferrier charted "the precise localization of cerebral function—particularly motor function—in dogs, monkeys and other vertebrates. His scheme of localized function was based upon the concepts of 'motor' and 'sensory' interaction. Ferrier's results, first published in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum Reports of 1873, were amplified in his Function of the Brain, which constitutes one of the most significant publications in the field of cerebral localization" [Norman Catalog 791].
"A detailed study of the physiology of skeletal muscle. A valuable historical introduction will be found on pp. 3-55, and the book includes an extensive bibliography" [GM 663].
Galton's great survey of the natural & nurtural influences exerted on English scientists.
GM 233. A continuation of Galton's classic anthropometric studies begun with the publication of Hereditary Genius."By the employment of statistical methods Galton propounded a 'law of filial regression.' This book represents the first statistical study of biological variation and inheritance" [GM].
The pioneer attempt to study primate language.
The serious study of primate language begins with Garner.
A key book in the history of industrial psychology and efficiency management. Gilbreth, who had worked with Taylor, here sets forth the general principles first articulated in his groundbreaking 1909 book on bricklaying.
Wellcome III, 137 (2 copies with one apparently calling for a plate). The plate cited in one of the Wellcome copies "has nothing to do with the case. It is not referred to in the text . . . and must be an insertion" [taken from an online Maggs description]. Tabular outline of his lectures at the University of Edinburgh, where Gordon was Lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery. Primarily intended for the use of his students. A former student of Barclay and Dugald Stewart, Gordon ferociously opposed Gall, believing that Gall had merely plagiarized Reil's neuroanatomical discoveries, and published a vitriolic attack on Gall about the same time as the publication of this book. The first part of the present work discusses the nervous system and muscular texture, with sections on sensibility & sensations; ideas or thoughts; irritability, and muscular actions; the sensibility of muscle; the physiology and parts containing the brain and spinal cord; the nourishment & secretions of the brain & spinal cord; nourishment of the nerves.
Not in Cordasco.
Presents Groves's system for "the natural and harmonious development of memory." The last edition appeared in 1920 as The Power of Memory.
Volume 3 is titled Notes and Additions to Dr. Hartley's Observations on Man by Herman Andrew Pistorius … Translated from the German original … to which is prefixed a Sketch of the Life and Character of Dr. Hartley. Also published in a single 4to volume and reprinted in 1801. This is the best and most complete edition, restoring the important section on the theory of vibrations which Priestley had deleted from his 1775 edition.Hartley's most influential book - although its influence lay in the 19th rather than the 18th century, the first edition attracting little notice. Hartley's views on sensation were taken direct from Newton's Principia, while his theory of vibrations was inspired by the latter's Optics. Both physiological psychology and associationism derive from this book.
Hazard's first book and a significant early American treatise on language. Published anonymously.
"The most important work on the subject in the English language. Head's theory of aphasia conceived the condition as being 'a disorder of symbolic formulation and expression'" [GM 4633].
Posthumously published, De l'homme expands on the radical environmentalist and utilitarian views Helvetius had first propounded in his 1758 De l'esprit.
Fay page 120; Wozniak Mind & Body: Renè Descartes to William James p. 50 & #53.
One of the most important pre-Jamesian psychological texts and the second significant American contribution to epistemology (after Jonathan Edwards). In our experience the first edition is quite rare. Persius, "generally considered to be America's first systematic philosopher, was born in Bethel, Connecticut and educated at Union College, where he served as Professor of Mental and Moral Pilosophy from 1855-1866 and as President from 1866 to his retirement in 1868. The fundamental principle on which Hickock based his philosophical system was the essential compatibility of rational and empirical modes of thought. Whereas ideas are tested in the empirical domain by their experimental consequences and in the rational domain by their internal coherence, properly carried out, both methods will lead to the same facts and principles and neither approach should be neglected in favor of the other. In keeping with this principle, Hickock published both a Rational Psychology (1849) and, in 1854, an Empirical Psychology" [Wozniak p. 50].
"The year 1886 marks the definite end of the old psychology. After the last expiring glow, a tiny but luminous flicker was emitted two yeas later by "The Elements of Psychoogy," a textbook by David Jayne Hill, then President of the University of Rochester. The txt is the product of ten years' experience in the classroom, and displays the clear logic of a first-rate mind, and the organization and presentation of an experienced teacher. It abounds in historical notes of pertinency and value, and refers to all the standard literature, even including "Sully's Outline," then only four years old. It has all the merits of Porter's abridgment of "Human Intellect," which it resembles, but to which it is superior in clarity and attractiveness. It is a fitting valedictory to a scholarly period" [Fay American Psychology Before William James, p. 167].
The 2nd printing has a new preface.
The author was professor of philosophy at Galway.
Hull's grand attempt to put psychology on a completely objective, mathematizable basis, here limited to rote learning but later extended to general psychology in his 1943 Principles of Behavior.
James writes "Dear Hodgson [i.e., Richard Hodgson], I enclose a check for Associateship [in the Society for Psychical Research] from Mrs. (or Miss) Ida M. Finnig of Lambertville, N.J. who wants 'everything to which she is entitled for that sum.' Does that include the last Proceedings? yours W. J." ["W. J." was the signature James used only with familiars].
Wozniak catalog #62.
The greatest book ever published on the psychology of religion.
Crabtree 1988 #1557: "An important work on subconsious phenomena and the nature of the subconscious. Criticizing the notion of the 'subliminal self' proposed by Myers to account for the same set of mental phenomena, Jastrow sees it as a natural function that is affected by experience much like the conscious mind."
Osier & Wozniak A Century of Serial Publications in Psychology 1850-1950: An International Bibliography #191 & #288. The first and primary journal in English with a wealth of important papers in the field. Begun in 1891 as Journal of Comparative Neurology (edited by C. L. Herrick, C. J. Herrick, & Oliver Strong [Osier & Wozniak #108]); continued from 1904-1910 as Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology (edited in various years by the Herricks, Strong, Robert Yerkes, & Herbert Jennings); continued again from volume 21 in 1911 with the original title (edited for the years in this run by C. J. Herrick, by George E. Coghill from 1927-1933; from 1933-1949 by Davenport Hooker; from 1950 by Gerhardt von Bonin).
Osier & Wozniak 350. Until 1925 edited by John B. Watson, from 1926-1929 by Madison Bentley.
Judd's second book.
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