In the late nineteenth century William James pieced together a theory of self that is remarkably modern, some might say 'post-modern.' In Chapter X of his magnum opus, The Principles of Psychology (1890), entitled "The Consciousness of Self," James discusses the manifold nature of the self treating it in its native complexity. Among other things, he proposes a notion of identity and experience ...

In neurological circles today the name James Taylor (1859-1946) is probably remembered mainly for his role in editing the Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson, the most readily available source of Jackson's contributions to neurological knowledge. Taylors' own neurological achievements are largely or entirely forgotten, but in his day he was an influential figure whose career linked the ...

Dr. William F. Bynum has been appointed lecturer in the History of Medicine and Head of the Sub-Department of the History of Medicine in University College London from 1 October 1973. He replaces Dr. Edwin Clarke, who has assumed the Directorship of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine. Dr. Bynum holds a B.A. in English Literature from Swarthmore College. He obtained his M.D. from ...

Eduard Hanslick, eminent musician-critic of Vienna, set out in mid-nineteenth century to consider whether it was possible to justify the common conception that music’s aim was the expression of feelings. He concluded that while music was capable of stirring emotion, it could not represent specific emotions.1 While he Hanslick recognized the importance of the new auditory sciences of physiology ...

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T he german naturalist ernst haeckel began many of his works of popular science with a rhetorical trope that was unusual amid the positivism of the late nineteenth century.1 In the two central books of his career, his Natural History of Creation and his Evolution of Man, volumes bookended by the ultratechnical General Morphology and the ultrapopular Riddle of the Universe, Haeckel opened his ac...

In the present chapter we shall deal with the birth of the theory of Gestalt, and particularly with the essay “On ‘Gestalt Qualities’” by Christian von Ehrenfels, published in 1890. It will become clear in the course of this chapter that the Gestalt psychologists of the Berlin school, above all Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka, were part of a wider Gestalt tradition whose roots l...

As a result of conducting questionnaire about science classes to high school students in 2016, the percentage who answered "I like science" and "Science is important" lower than other subjects. However, more 80% elementary junior said they experiments observations. In addition, 2019 smartphone penetration rate survey found that it popular among 90% students. VR technology has recently made rema...

As one of the prominent ideologies of the nineteenth-century— in a complex interrelation with other contemporary ideological discourses particularly femininity and marriage—religion adopts a critical stance in Hardy’s presentation of characters. Breaching the religio-conventional image of femininity as ―Angel in the House‖ and ―Cow Woman,‖ Hardy’s Jude the Obscure (1895) is indeed deemed to be ...

quite so different as readers of Pour une histoire des sciences might suppose. In his well-known paper on the role of Cuvier in the history of science, Foucault also sought to show the intellectual conditions necessary for the emergence of (Darwinian) transformism, with Cuvier the pivotal figure "making possible" the reconstruction of eighteenth-century natural history so as to yield nineteenth...