The Shaping of Modern Thought
Author : Crane Brinton
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 1953
Category : History
ISBN :
The Shaping of Modern Psychology
Author : L.S. Hearnshaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 100076737X
Book Description
Originally published in 1987, The Shaping of Modern Psychology presents a systematic survey of the development of psychology from the dawn of civilization to the late 1980s. Psychology as we find it today has been shaped by many influences, philosophical, theological, scientific, medical and sociological. It has deep roots in the whole history of human thought, and its significance cannot be properly appreciated without an understanding of the way it has developed. This book covers the history of modern psychology from its animistic beginnings, through the Greek philosophers and the Christian theologians, and developments such as the Scientific Revolution, to the time of first publication. The author drew on many years’ teaching experience in the subject and on a lifetime’s interest in psychology. The growth of psychology had been particularly impressive during the twentieth century and Professor Hearnshaw also looked to the future of the discipline. He showed that the new vistas opening out in fields such as neuropsychology, information theory and artificial intelligence, for example, were hopeful indications for the future, provided the lessons of the past were not forgotten. With the benefit of hindsight, we now know that he was right!
Disease and Its Control
Author : Robert P. Hudson
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780275927790
Book Description
"a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected its management. . . . Disease and Its Control is a fresh and welcome synthesis of historical scholarship that will be accessible to interested laymen." Annals of Internal Medicine
The Horizon Book of Makers of Modern Thought
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
Leonard da Vinci -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- Desiderius Erasmus -- Nicolaus Copernicus -- Martin Luther -- John Calvin -- Francis Bacon -- Thomas Hobbs -- Rene Descartes -- Blaise Pascal -- John Locke -- Isaac Newton -- Voltaire -- Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Adam Smith -- Immanuel Kant -- Jeremy Bentham -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Thomas Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- Robert Owen -- Karl Maria von Glausewitz -- George Perkins Marsh -- Charles Robert Darwin -- Karl Marx -- Michael Bakunin -- William James -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche -- Ivan Petrovich Pavlov -- James George Frazer -- Sigmund Freud -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -- Albert Einstein -- John Maynard Keynes -- Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Norbert Wiener and Warren McCullogh.
Remaking China's Public Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century
Author : Jinghao Zhou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2003-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313057397
Book Description
In this book, author Jinghao Zhou uses for the first time the prism of public philosophy to examine Chinese society, modernization, globalization, and democratization as a whole. Challenging conventional thinking in China studies, he examines China systematically in seven aspects: history, ideology, economy, politics, religion, education, and China's future, and does so from both Eastern and Western perspectives. The volume asserts that the remaking of China's public philosophy is they key for the nation to achieve both economic and political prosperity, making the bold argument that this remaking can contribute profoundly not only to China's development, but to international peace and development as well. In Remaking China's Public Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century, author Jinghao Zhou uses for the first time the prism of public philosophy to examine Chinese society, modernization, globalization, and democratization as a whole. Challenging conventional thinking in China studies, he examines China systematically in seven aspects: history, ideology, economy, politics, religion, education, and China's future, and does so from both Eastern and Western perspectives. The volume asserts that the remaking of China's public philosophy—the very principles and precepts it now takes for granted—is they key for the nation to achieve both economic and political prosperity. Zhou aims for a peaceful revolution of China's democratization while he explores a new paradigm in China studies, making the bold argument that this remaking can contribute profoundly not only to China's development, but to international peace and development as well.
Proof Theory
Author : Vincent F. Hendricks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401727961
Book Description
hiS volume in the Synthese Library Series is the result of a conference T held at the University of Roskilde, Denmark, October 31st-November 1st, 1997. The aim was to provide a forum within which philosophers, math ematicians, logicians and historians of mathematics could exchange ideas pertaining to the historical and philosophical development of proof theory. Hence the conference was called Proof Theory: History and Philosophical Significance. To quote from the conference abstract: Proof theory was developed as part of Hilberts Programme. According to Hilberts Programme one could provide mathematics with a firm and se cure foundation by formalizing all of mathematics and subsequently prove consistency of these formal systems by finitistic means. Hence proof theory was developed as a formal tool through which this goal should be fulfilled. It is well known that Hilbert's Programme in its original form was unfeasible mainly due to Gtldel's incompleteness theorems. Additionally it proved impossible to formalize all of mathematics and impossible to even prove the consistency of relatively simple formalized fragments of mathematics by finitistic methods. In spite of these problems, Gentzen showed that by extending Hilbert's proof theory it would be possible to prove the consistency of interesting formal systems, perhaps not by finitis tic methods but still by methods of minimal strength. This generalization of Hilbert's original programme has fueled modern proof theory which is a rich part of mathematical logic with many significant implications for the philosophy of mathematics.
Divergent Paths: The Hegelian foundations of Marx's method
Author : Norman Levine
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739113042
Book Description
Divergent Paths is the first in a series of three volumes that explores the historiography of the relationship between Hegel and Marx; it sets the terms of the relationship between Marx and Engels, and explores the genesis of the theories of Marxism and Engelsism from the late 19th century to the present day. Given the vast pool of contemporary post Marxist theoretical work, a study like this is sorely needed. This is the most thorough exploration of Marx's ideas from Hegel through to the present day and is absolutely essential reading.
Volume 18, Tome IV: Kierkegaard Secondary Literature
Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1351653857
Book Description
In recent years interest in the thought of Kierkegaard has grown dramatically, and with it the body of secondary literature has expanded so quickly that it has become impossible for even the most conscientious scholar to keep pace. The problem of the explosion of secondary literature is made more acute by the fact that much of what is written about Kierkegaard appears in languages that most Kierkegaard scholars do not know. Kierkegaard has become a global phenomenon, and new research traditions have emerged in different languages, countries, and regions. The present volume is dedicated to trying to help to resolve these two problems in Kierkegaard studies. Its purpose is, first, to provide book reviews of some of the leading monographic studies in the Kierkegaard secondary literature so as to assist the community of scholars to become familiar with the works that they have not read for themselves. The aim is thus to offer students and scholars of Kierkegaard a comprehensive survey of works that have played a more or less significant role in the research. Second, the present volume also tries to make accessible many works in the Kierkegaard secondary literature that are written in different languages and thus to give a glimpse into various and lesser-known research traditions. The six tomes of the present volume present reviews of works written in Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish.
System
Author : Clifford Siskin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262336359
Book Description
The role that “system” has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own “computational universe.” A system can describe what we see (the solar system), operate a computer (Windows 10), or be made on a page (the fourteen engineered lines of a sonnet). In this book, Clifford Siskin shows that system is best understood as a genre—a form that works physically in the world to mediate our efforts to understand it. Indeed, many Enlightenment authors published works they called “system” to compete with the essay and the treatise. Drawing on the history of system from Galileo's “message from the stars” and Newton's “system of the world” to today's “computational universe,” Siskin illuminates the role that the genre of system has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge. Previous engagements with systems have involved making them, using them, or imagining better ones. Siskin offers an innovative perspective by investigating system itself. He considers the past and present, moving from the “system of the world” to “a world full of systems.” He traces the turn to system in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and describes this primary form of Enlightenment as a mediator of political, cultural, and social modernity—pointing to the moment when people began to “blame the system” for working both too well (“you can't beat the system”) and not well enough (it always seems to “break down”). Throughout, his touchstones are: what system is and how it has changed; how it has mediated knowledge; and how it has worked in the world.
Contemporary Thought in the Muslim World
Author : Carool Kersten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1135008922
Book Description
This book presents an intellectual history of today’s Muslim world, surveying contemporary Muslim thinking in its various manifestations, addressing a variety of themes that impact on the lives of present-day Muslims. Focusing on the period from roughly the late 1960s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, the book is global in its approach and offers an overview of different strands of thought and trends in the development of new ideas, distinguishing between traditional, reactionary, and progressive approaches. It presents a variety of themes and issues including: The continuing relevance of the legacy of traditional Islamic learning as well as the use of reason; the centrality of the Qur’an; the spiritual concerns of contemporary Muslims; political thought regarding secularity, statehood, and governance; legal and ethical debates; related current issues like human rights, gender equality, and religious plurality; as well as globalization, ecology and the environment, bioethics, and life sciences. An alternative account of Islam and the Muslim world today, counterbalancing narratives that emphasise politics and confrontations with the West, this book is an essential resource for students and scholars of Islam.
