The Hound of the Baskervilles, the Man on the Tor, and a Metaphor for the Mind

1999 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-372
Author(s):  
Lawrence Frank
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Percy Bysshe Shelley ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
Earth’S Crust ◽  
Earth's Crust ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Biological Reductionism

Through Dr. Watson's narrative, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-2) dramatizes a nineteenth-century debate between opposing naturalistic accounts of the human mind, one associated with Cesare Lombroso's biological reductionism, the other with John Tyndall's Romantic materialism. In the episode of the Man on the Tor a vision of the mind emerges that acknowledges the influence of Darwinian thought. Yet, through allusions to Tyndall's "Scientific Use of the Imagination" (1870), to Pierre-Simon Laplace's nebular hypothesis, and to Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Wordsworth, the episode offers a metaphor for the mind: it suggests, iconographically, that the consciousness of enlightenment rationalism rides precariously, like the earth's crust, over the subterranean depths to be associated with the Romantic unconscious.

Locke’s Inclinations

2021 ◽  
pp. 159-176
Author(s):  
Stewart Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Substance P ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
Animal Minds ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Mind

Locke is officially agnostic about the nature of the human mind: he thinks we cannot know that materialism is true, but also that we cannot know that dualism is true. Despite this agnosticism, we can ask whether Locke thought one of those views was more likely than the other. The chapter considers arguments on both sides. A small number of texts suggest he thought dualism more likely. On the other hand, Lisa Downing has argued that Locke thought materialism more likely, on the basis of the similarities between human and animal minds. This chapter argues that the reasons she offers do not show us that Locke was inclined to materialism. Nevertheless, Locke did show the possibility of materialism, not just by saying it was possible, but by developing at length an account of the mind that did not depend upon its being an immaterial substance.

STORIA DELLA TERRA E TEMPI GEOLOGICI IN UNO SCRITTO INEDITO DI GIOVANNI ARDUINO: LA «RISPOSTA ALLEGORICO-ROMANZESCA» A FERBER

Nuncius ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
EZIO VACCARI
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Earth’S Crust ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
History Of ◽  
Earth's Crust

Abstract<title> SUMMARY </title>The publication of Giovanni Arduino's Risposta allegorico-romanzesc<?CTRLerr type="1" mess="Doute sur la typo" ?>a to J. J. Ferber highlights an unpublished and crucial aspect of Arduino's geology. The concept of epoch, applied to the history of the changes undergone by the Earth's crust, is put forward well before Buffon's Epoques de la Nature. Moreover the reflections of Arduino open up a «third possibility» between the catastrophist and uniformitarian hypotheses. This goes beyond the rigid antithesis between «Neptunism» and «Plutonism», which constituded the conditioning element of the study of Earth Science in Europe around the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century.

scholarly journals Crustal seismology: traditions and styles from a historical perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aitor Anduaga
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Earth’S Crust ◽  
Research Schools ◽  
Earth's Crust ◽  
The Mind

It has often been said that geophysics is an umbrella discipline, and that its various and varied fields remained conceptually autonomous even when configured in the mind of a single scientist. However, to what extent were these fields conceptually autonomous? Was there a single accumulation of geophysical knowledge and practices, or rather diverse traditions? Furthermore, what happens when there is a confluence of traditions rather than an independent accumulation of knowledge? Would it make sense then to talk about any conceptual autonomy and compartmentalized fields? This article examines the historical development of a geophysical specialization developed in multinational settings: crustal seismology. Rather than a conglomerate of autonomous fields, the view of geophysics as an intercalated set of inter-disciplinary fields, research schools, programs, and traditions which seem to concur in the same direction, can be applied to a large extent to geophysics of the Earth’s crust. The article shows how these elements interacted and were even transferred from one place to another. It concludes with some reflections on the institutional and procedural relations between academic geophysics, physics and geology.

scholarly journals Language and laughter in the treatise of Philo of Alexandria The worse attacks the better

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-624
Author(s):  
Maksim Prikhodko
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Initial Orientation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Initial Moment ◽  
Philo Of Alexandria ◽  
The Real ◽  
First Case ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Ideal

The present paper investigates the interaction between Logos and language in the treatise of Philo of Alexandria "The Worse attacks the Better". Language is regarded by Philo as the actualization of thought in its articulated expression, as the initial moment of creativity. The source of such action is the divine Logos, but the development of thought in the word happens in two opposite directions: one leads to joy, while the other, to suffering. The starting point of this separation is the initial orientation (love) of the mind to God or to self. In the first case, the mind in the act of utterance (expression) overcomes its own isolation. It comes into contact with the divine Logos and achieves joy. The crucial moment of this "leaving the brackets" of self individual thinking towards the light of the divine Logos is laughter. In another case, when the mind does not link words with their source, false creativity is produced, leading to suffering. Аpplying the concept of laughter to the doctrine of Logos and language, Philo reconciles the ideal plan of conceiving truth and its interpretation with the real functioning of the human mind and speech.

scholarly journals The existential role of women in The Flies and the dirty hands, by Jean Paul Sartre

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (137) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Majed Jamil NASIF ◽  
Ridha Thamer BAQER
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
Politics And Literature ◽  
Dirty Hands ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Family ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Second World

          The freedom and the existential engagement represent two essential notions in the mind of the writer Jean-Paul Sartre. It has been presented in a good and clear way by his philosophy or, in a clearer way, by his artworks. More specifically, the two plays of this author, The Flies and the dirty hands, are the mirror that reflects these twos existential notions.           These two plays are the perfect testimonies for the two important periods in the XXth century: before and after the Second World War. These two periods vary in so far, the human mind, politics and literature as are concerned. This variation has followed the historical and the political changes in the world in general and in France in particular.           Even if The Flies and the dirty hands are considered like two different existential dramas, but each one completes the other. The first drama evokes a human mind but, indirectly, another political one, whether the other play evokes the inverse. Oreste and Hugo, the two heroes of our study plays, are the superior heroes who try to save humanity of slavery and submission to injustice. Sartre and his audience place their hopes in these two heroes who search for the freedom through their existential engagement.           In the other hand, the female characters have played an affective role in the dramatic action in the two plays. By its freedom and its existential engagement, the female condition, according to Sartre's vision, searches for proving his human existence and revolting against the authority of the family, the society and the humanity. 

scholarly journals Special Features of the Forming of Thermal Waters of the Eastern Part of the Khangay Neotectonic Uplift

2011 ◽  
pp. 64-70
Author(s):  
PS Badminov ◽  
D Ganchimeg ◽  
BI Pisarsky ◽  
D Oyuntsetseg ◽  
GI Orgilyanov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Active Faults ◽  
Continental Rift ◽  
The Other ◽  
Earth’S Crust ◽  
Large Block ◽  
Thermal Waters ◽  
Deep Faults ◽  
Rift Zones ◽  
Earth's Crust ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Khangay neotectonic uplift is a large block of the earth’s crust confined to the area between two sublatitudinal deep faults (Bulnay and Goby-Altay). They are active faults accommodating main compression stresses in contract to the extension existed in the other area of the Khangay uplift. In contrast to continental rift zones of Khangay it is the region of compression. It is area with the increased values of the heat flux.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5564/pmas.v0i4.48 Proceedings of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences 2009 No 4 pp.64-70

Siesmic Activity and its Periphery

2017 ◽  
pp. 86-91
Author(s):  
Min Raj Lamsal
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Earth’S Crust ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Religious Concept ◽  
Earth's Crust ◽  
Gravitational Equilibrium

Earthquake is a series of vibrations within the earth's crust. It occurs when the earth's crust break due to geological forces on the rock and adjoining plate. Earthquake refers to a movement or tremor of the earth’s crust that originates naturally and below the surface. An earthquake is a vibration or oscillation of the surface of the earth caused by a transient disturbance of the elastic or gravitational equilibrium of the rocks at or beneath the surface. There are two causes of earthquakes. One is religious concept and the other is modern concept. Earthquakes are of different types according to their place of origin and location. There are so many effects of earthquakes.The Himalayan Physics Vol. 6 & 7, April 2017 (86-91)

Notices of the Volcanic Rocks and Geysirs of Iceland

The Geologist ◽  
1858 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 142-146
Author(s):  
J. E. Vaux
Keyword(s):  
Safety Valve ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Internal Heat ◽  
The Other ◽  
Earth’S Crust ◽  
High Latitudes ◽  
The World ◽  
Earth's Crust ◽  
The One

Of all the wondrous changes which nature has wrought on the earth's crust, there is scarcely anything that will bear comparison with those which meet the eye of the traveller in volcanic regions. Of the two great agents in. Geological transformation—water and fire, the one moves us with admiration at the delicacy of its operations, the other strikes us with awe at the mightiness of its influences, and the rapidity of its work.Few, if any, countries present ua with such remarkable or various manifestations of the potency of subterranean heat as Iceland. So much so, indeed, that it appears as though it were the acknowledged safety-valve, in this portion of our globe at least, through which the troubled contents of depths unknown may, on any emergency, find a ready vent.Interest more than ordinary appears to have been taken of late in this most remarkable region. No less than six parties of tourists having, during the year before last, investigated the natural marvels of the island. One of these adventurers, Lord Dufferin, in a most interesting and amusing book, has given to the world a record of his travels. From his “Letters from High Latitudes” we propose to quote his graphic picture of the result of volcanic action, in producing a very remarkable and very manifest change in the aspect of the large tract of country to which that portion of hiB narrative refers.But before we proceed to this, it may perhaps be useful to recal to the reader's recollection the two theories which have, up to the present time, been put forth with respect to the causes of internal heat, and hence to the origin of volcanic action in general.

scholarly journals Nitrogen, argon and neon in the earth’s crust with applications to cosmology

1939 ◽  
Vol 170 (943) ◽  
pp. 451-464 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Earth’S Crust ◽  
Temperature Conditions ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Atmospheric Argon ◽  
Earth's Crust ◽  
Very High ◽  
Do So

Russell and Menzel (1933) have pointed out that neon is cosmically more abundant than argon, which latter had not at the time they wrote been detected in stars or nebulae, though the lines to be looked for are favourably placed. On the other hand, argon atoms are some 500 times more abundant in the atmosphere. They conclude that in all probability neon has escaped from the atmosphere. Since it could not do so under existing temperature conditions, the inference is that it escaped soon after the earth was separated from the sun’s mass, when the temperature was still very high. This view requires that the atmospheric argon and neon are primitive, and are not supplied to any important extent from the interior of the planet, as atmospheric helium undoubtedly is.

Erasmus in the Nineteenth Century: The Liberal Tradition*

1968 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 193-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce E. Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
Liberal Tradition ◽  
Rapid Flow ◽  
Jules Michelet ◽  
First Time

Around 1840 two French travelers returning from Journeys to Italy passed by Basle and reflected on Erasmus, who—so both believed—had helped form the city's modern character. One was Louis Veuillot, fresh from his Roman conversion and exercising for the first time the pen that was to make him the most formidable ultramontane publicist of the age. The other was Jules Michelet, historian of France, future apostle of the people's liberation, finding here already in the rapid flow of the Rhine an analogy for the irresistible progress of the human mind.

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