Kurt Danziger. Marking the Mind: A History of Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 320 pp. $108 (cloth) ISBN-13: 978-0521898157. $42 (paper) ISBN-13: 978-0521726412. $37.32 (Kindle edition) ASIN: B001JEPW9K

2010 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-213
Author(s):  
Adrian C. Brock
Keyword(s):  
Cambridge University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind

Beérkezett könyvek

2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-770
Author(s):  
Csaba Pléh
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
New Science ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Oxford University Press

Danziger, Kurt: Marking the mind. A history of memory . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008Farkas, Katalin: The subject’s point of view. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008MosoninéFriedJudités TolnaiMárton(szerk.): Tudomány és politika. Typotex, Budapest, 2008Iacobini, Marco: Mirroring people. The new science of how we connect with others. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2008Changeux, Jean-Pierre. Du vrai, du beau, du bien.Une nouvelle approche neuronale. Odile Jacob, PárizsGazzaniga_n

Agnes Arber, historian of botany and Darwinian sceptic

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-523
Author(s):  
Vittoria Feola
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Plant Morphology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Academic Standards ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
History Of Botany ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind

This essay aims to reappraise Agnes Arber's contribution to the history of science with reference to her work in the history of botany and biology. Both her first and her last books (Herbals, 1912; The Mind and the Eye, 1954) are classics: the former in the history of botany, the latter in that of biology. As such, they are still cited today, albeit with increasing criticism. Her very last book was rejected by Cambridge University Press because it did not meet the publisher's academic standards – we shall return to it in due course. Despite Kathryn Packer's two essays about Arber's life in context, much remains to be done toward a just appreciation of her research. We need such a reappraisal in order to avoid anachronistic criticisms of her contributions to the historiography of botany, or, on the other hand, uncritical applause for her studies in plant morphology.

SCOTTISH OR BRITISH? POLITICS AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN SCOTLAND, c. 1500–1707 The true law of kingship: concepts of monarchy in early-modern Scotland. By J. H. Burns. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xiv+315. £37.50. ISBN 0-19-820384-5. Politics, religion and the British revolutions: the mind of Samuel Rutherford. By John Coffey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xii+304. £40. ISBN 0-521-58172-9. Scots and Britons: Scottish political thought and the Union of 1603. Edited by Roger A. Mason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv+323. £40. ISBN 0-521-42034-2. A Union for empire: political thought and the Union of 1707. Edited by John Robertson Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xx+368. £40. ISBN 0-521-43113-1. The birth of Britain: a new nation 1700–1710. By W. A. Speck. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Pp. xiv-235. £25. ISBN 0-521-43113-1.

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 579-590
Author(s):  
GLENN BURGESS
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
British History ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Nation ◽  
The Mind ◽  
English Politics

Is the development of a new British history of the early modern period a boon or a bane for those interested in the history of Scotland (or, for that matter, Ireland, Wales, even England)? Such a false antithesis we might normally confine to our examination papers; but it is difficult to avoid considering it after reading the five books under review here. Professor Burns has written a superb account of Scottish political thought in the long sixteenth century and Dr Coffey an equally successful exploration of the mind of the leading ideologist of the Covenanters. The collection edited by Dr Mason, which connects with the Burns study at several points, is explicitly a view of Scottish political thought focused on the Union of 1603, while that edited by Dr Robertson drops the particular emphasis on Scottish thought in its exploration of the intellectual context to the Union of 1707. Professor Speck presents us with a slightly different problem: a volume in a series on the history of early modern England that takes as the central theme of English politics in the decade 1700–10 the birth of Britain. Each of these books is rewarding, at the very least ; together their effect may be disquieting.

How Homo economicus lost her mind and how we can revive her

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter DeScioli
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Target Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractThe target article by Boyer & Petersen (B&P) contributes a vital message: that people have folk economic theories that shape their thoughts and behavior in the marketplace. This message is all the more important because, in the history of economic thought, Homo economicus was increasingly stripped of mental capacities. Intuitive theories can help restore the mind of Homo economicus.

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