Origins of the Modern Mind

Author: Merlin Donald
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674253701
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428

Book Description
This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to artificial intelligence, presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.

Law and the Modern Mind

Author: Susanna L. Blumenthal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674048935
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In postrevolutionary America, the autonomous individual was both the linchpin of a young nation and a threat to the founders’ vision of ordered liberty. Conceiving of self-government as a psychological as well as a political project, jurists built a republic of laws upon the Enlightenment science of the mind with the aim of producing a responsible citizenry. Susanna Blumenthal probes the assumptions and consequences of this undertaking, revealing how ideas about consciousness, agency, and accountability have shaped American jurisprudence. Focusing on everyday adjudication, Blumenthal shows that mental soundness was routinely disputed in civil as well as criminal cases. Litigants presented conflicting religious, philosophical, and medical understandings of the self, intensifying fears of a populace maddened by too much liberty. Judges struggled to reconcile common sense notions of rationality with novel scientific concepts that suggested deviant behavior might result from disease rather than conscious choice. Determining the threshold of competence was especially vexing in litigation among family members that raised profound questions about the interconnections between love and consent. This body of law coalesced into a jurisprudence of insanity, which also illuminates the position of those to whom the insane were compared, particularly children, married women, and slaves. Over time, the liberties of the eccentric expanded as jurists came to recognize the diversity of beliefs held by otherwise reasonable persons. In calling attention to the problematic relationship between consciousness and liability, Law and the Modern Mind casts new light on the meanings of freedom in the formative era of American law.

Law and the Modern Mind

Author: Jerome Frank
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351509551
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 494

Book Description
Law and the Modern Mind first appeared in 1930 when, in the words of Judge Charles E. Clark, it "fell like a bomb on the legal world." In the generations since, its influence has grown-today it is accepted as a classic of general jurisprudence.The work is a bold and persuasive attack on the delusion that the law is a bastion of predictable and logical action. Jerome Frank's controversial thesis is that the decisions made by judge and jury are determined to an enormous extent by powerful, concealed, and highly idiosyncratic psychological prejudices that these decision-makers bring to the courtroom.

Storytelling

Author: Christian Salmon
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784786608
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
The narrative spell cast over politics and society Politics is no longer the art of the possible, but of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way that it is perceived. In Storytelling Christian Salmon looks at the twenty-first-century hijacking of creative imagination, anatomizing the timeless human desire for narrative form, and how this desire is abused by the marketing mechanisms that bolster politicians and their products: luxury brands trade on embellished histories, managers tell stories to motivate employees, soldiers in Iraq train on Hollywood-conceived computer games, and spin doctors construct political lives as if they were a folk epic. This “storytelling machine” is masterfully unveiled by Salmon, and is shown to be more effective and insidious as a means of oppression than anything dreamed up by Orwell.

The Making of the Modern Mind

Author: John Herman Randall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 676

Book Description

The Birth of the Modern Mind

Author: Paul Oppenheimer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195056922
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
This book suggests that the origins of the thought and literature which is termed "modern" can be traced to the 13th-century Italian invention of the sonnet, the first literary form since classical times meant not for performance but for silent reading and introspection

The Modern Mind

Author: Binita Chhetry
Publisher: The Little Booktique Hub
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
Two opposite poles, two extremes, are a creative mind and a destructive mind. It is true that a man is shaped by his circumstances. Bramahrishi Vishvamitra, who was he? How he earned the title of emperor's sage. Ratnakara, a highway robber, became Maharishi Valmiki? These are a few examples of how a destructive mind was effectively turned into a creative mind. A Destructive mind and a Creative mind are both temporary. They, too, evolve. We are all human beings, yet we do not have the same mentality. The personality of a man is unpredictable. Some of us are born with a creative mind, while others are born with a destructive mentality. Some people may possess both a creative and destructive mind. Some believe that both a creative and destructive mind are inherited. Depending on one's mood, the mind can be either productive or destructive. “The Modern Mind: Creative and Destructive” consists of several co-authors from all over the globe who have dedicated their inked verses as a poem, quote, micro tale or a short story which revolves around the different themes. We are hoping for the great success of this book, a free anthology launched by Writer’s Abode Publication in which none of the co-Authors are charged a single penny throughout the publishing process.

iBrain

Author: Gary Small
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061340332
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Their insights are extraordinary, their behaviors unusual. Their brains—shaped by the era of microprocessors, access to limitless information, and 24-hour news and communication—are remapping, retooling, and evolving. They're not superhuman. They're your twenty-something coworkers, your children, and your competition. Are you keeping up? In iBrain, Dr. Gary Small, one of America's leading neuroscientists and experts on brain function and behavior, explores how technology's unstoppable march forward has altered the way young minds develop, function, and interpret information. iBrain reveals a new evolution catalyzed by technological advancement and its future implications: Where do you fit in on the evolutionary chain? What are the professional, social, and political impacts of this new brain evolution? How must you adapt and at what price? While high-tech immersion can accelerate learning and boost creativity, it also has its glitches, among them the meteoric rise in ADD diagnoses, increased social isolation, and Internet addiction. To compete and thrive in the age of brain evolution, and to avoid these potential drawbacks, we must adapt, and iBrain—with its Technology Toolkit—equips all of us with the tools and strategies needed to close the brain gap.

Makers of the Modern Mind

Author: Thomas P. Neill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781021171719
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Emergence of the Modern Mind

Author: Frederick C. Gruber
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512802131
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.