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Martin was Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at McGill.
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.
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 first textbook of developmental psychology and Preyer's most important book, translated into English in 1888-89 in two volumes as The Mind of the Child. "Preyer's book provided the greatest single impetus to the development of modern ontogenetic psychology" [Zusne Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, p. 347].
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.
An important book in the canon of Social Darwinism.
The first part of The Principles of Ethics, the final volumes of his grand Synthetic Philosophy, on which Spencer worked for the greater part of his life. As noted in the preface, The Data of Ethics appeared out of order, before the second and third volumes of the Principles of Sociology. "Spencer considered the Synthetic Philosophy's final two volumes, the Principles of Ethics, to be the crowning achievement of his work. In them he returned to many of the themes and ideas he had first explored in the [1851] Social Statics, although now mediated through a more explicitly evolutionary perspective. … The ethical theory that emerged from these speculations was a form of rule utilitarianism …" [Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy vol. 2:1056].
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.
Originally published as a two-part article in the April and May 1886 issues of The Nineteenth Century. Spencer's last major scientific essay, and, while hardly his final word on evolution, his last major argument for the inheritance of acquired characteristics."In 1886 Spencer composed a long two-part article, 'The Factors of Organic Evolution', in which he defended the role of functionally acquired modification in evolution, frequently citing Darwin's own employment of the device in the Origin of the Species and Descent of Man. In the preface to the republication of the articles in book form the next year, he declared what was at stake in his defense of the mechanism of acquired modifications. It was the 'indirect bearings upon Psychology, Ethics, and Sociology.' The profound importance of these bearings on the social sciences, he confessed, was 'originally a chief prompter to set forth the argument; and it now prompts me to re-issue in in permanent form.' Survival of the fittest was too crude a mechanism to yield up delicate mental structures, refined social adaptations, and a keen sense of justice — especially since these highly evolved traits had no survival value" [Robert J. Richards, Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior, p. 293]. Indeed, Richards argues, "Modern physiological and cognitive psychology is Kantian. Not in the way Kant was a Kantian, but in the way Spencer was. The infant comes into the world already outfitted with perceptual and cognitive categories by which it organizes its experience. It does not encounter Dingen an sich but objects that bear the marks of the races's evolutionary history. Though we now, of course, reject the inheritance of acquired characters, we still must agree with Spencer that human nature arises out of experience — our own immediate experience, that which constitutes our individual history, and, most importantly, the adaptational experiences of our ancestors" [p. 328].
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].
Wozniak Mind & Body #15.
(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.
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-L)
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