2. Neurology

1902 ◽  
Vol 48 (202) ◽  
pp. 561-563
Author(s):  
A. W. Wilcox
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Body ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Work Done

The first part of this article consists of an interesting history of many attempts made to localise the mind in the human body before and since that made by Gall in the first decade of the nineteenth century. After mentioning the work done by Bouillaud, Flourens, and others, the author states that no further advance was made for twenty years or more, until Broca, in 1861, localised the centre for articulate speech. He then describes the experiments in cerebral localisation made by Fritsch and Hitzig in 1870, closely followed by those of Ferrier, Horsley, Schafer, and many others, resulting in the determination of centres of control for nearly or quite all the groups of voluntary muscles, for general sensation, and for the more important special sensations of sight and hearing.

George Combe and common sense

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
SEAN DYDE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Relative Success ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Mind

AbstractThis article examines the history of two fields of enquiry in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland: the rise and fall of the common sense school of philosophy and phrenology as presented in the works of George Combe. Although many previous historians have construed these histories as separate, indeed sometimes incommensurate, I propose that their paths were intertwined to a greater extent than has previously been given credit. The philosophy of common sense was a response to problems raised by Enlightenment thinkers, particularly David Hume, and spurred a theory of the mind and its mode of study. In order to succeed, or even to be considered a rival of these established understandings, phrenologists adapted their arguments for the sake of engaging in philosophical dispute. I argue that this debate contributed to the relative success of these groups: phrenology as a well-known historical subject, common sense now largely forgotten. Moreover, this history seeks to question the place of phrenology within the sciences of mind in nineteenth-century Britain.

Wondrous Depths: Judging the Mind in Nineteenth-Century America

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (03) ◽  
pp. 828-849
Author(s):  
Catherine L. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
The Self ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Modern Mind ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind

Susanna L. Blumenthal’sLaw and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture(2016) is a history of the self in nineteenth-century America. When judges considered a person’s criminal responsibility or civil capacity in court, they created a body of legal and political thought about the self, society, the economy, and American democracy. This essay uses Blumenthal’s book to explore recent work on law and the mind in Britain and North America, and argues that abstract questions about free will, the self, and the mind were part of the everyday jurisprudence of the nineteenth century. Debates about responsibility were also debates about the psychological consequences of capitalism and the borders of personhood and citizenship at a time of rapid economic, political, and social change.

Solitary Confinement—Effects and Practices from the Nineteenth Century until Today

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Scharff Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Solitary Confinement ◽  
Confinement Effects ◽  
The World ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind

This chapter traces the history of solitary confinement practices and their effects in prisons and places of detention from the rise of the modern penitentiary in the United States and Europe during the nineteenth century and up until present day, examining methods used in different countries around the world. It discusses how various forms of isolation have been employed for very different purposes and demonstrates how the effects of solitary confinement have been discovered in different contexts during the last two centuries. Nevertheless, these effects have been forgotten or neglected at several important junctures during the history of imprisonment. Today, few doubt that solitary confinement often has powerful consequences for the mind and body of prisoners, but the degree to which lawmakers and prison administrators acknowledge this varies greatly.

The Serbian Army. 1804–1918

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalibor Denda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Great War ◽  
General Reader ◽  
Research Fellow ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Comprehensive Study

This book by Colonel Dalibor Denda, Dr. Sc., research fellow of the Institute of Strategic Studies of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Serbia, is a comprehensive study on the history of the Serbian military system from the nineteenth century to 1918. It consists of seven chronologically and thematically arranged chapters which embrace the period from the First Serbian Uprising (1804–1813) to the wars of 1912–1918. The structure corresponds to the key tuning points of the making and development of the armed forces, which evolved from a rebel militia into the best minor army of the Great War. Special attention is paid to the selection and education of the army command staff, and determination of military doctrine and system of command. Furthermore, the author considers Russia’s influence on the evolution of the Serbian army and Russian-Serbian military interaction. The book is intended for the general reader.

scholarly journals UNDERGROUND WELBECK: INTAGIBLE SPACES John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (1800–1879)

Architecture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-200
Author(s):  
María Isabel Fernández Naranjo ◽  
Tomás García García
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
The Mind

The life of the 5th Duke of Portland is a story about the mental obsession to find a haven of absolute stillness, a worry-free place, and somewhere to feel safe (Pl L1/2/8/3/13: Four letters to Fanny Kemble, 1842–1845. In these letters, the 5th Duke refers to the subsoil as “shelter” and the “only safe place”, found in Manuscripts and Special Collections, Archives Nottingham University). Perhaps it is there, in the space that unfolded away from the visible world, that he found the strength to overcome his difficulties and to understand the scale of space and its intangibility; he was aware of the relationships and interaction between the human body, inhabited space, and the mind, and this information helped him in his hiding process. After his appointment as the heir to his immense estate, a series of investments on an unprecedented scale began almost immediately, which have been considered, both technically and conceptually, to be pioneers of domestic and landscape architecture during the nineteenth century. Welbeck Estate represents the construction of a double city, one that is visible and another that is concealed, but it is also a reflection of how our body and our mind interfere, dialogue, and create an architectural space that is framed in a cognitive process. Space and time were unfolded and folded into themselves in order to build this fascinating scenery, which represents the duke’s life.

Women in science: Breaking out of the circle

1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-182 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Secondary Sexual Characteristics ◽  
Sexual Characteristics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Mind

Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Women in science, antiquity through the nineteenth century . Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1986. Pp. xi 4- 254, £24.75. ISBN 0-262-15031-X Margaret Alic, Hypatia's heritage: a history of women in science from antiquity to the late nineteenth century . London: The Women’s Press, 1986. Pp. ix + 230, £4.95. ISBN 0-7043-3954-4 Londa Schiebinger, The mind has no sex? Women in the origins of modem science . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 355, £23.50. ISBN 0-674-57623-3 Patricia Phillips, The scientific lady: a social history of woman's scientific interests 1520-1918 . London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990. Pp. xiii + 279, £25.00. ISBN 0-297-82043-5 Uneasy careers and intimate lives: women in science, 1789-1979 . Edited by Pnina G. Abir-Am & Dorinda Outram. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii + 365, £11.00. ISBN 0-8135-1255-7 Women of science: righting the record . Edited by G. Kass-Simon & Patricia Fames. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1990. Pp. xvi + 398, $39.95. ISBN 0-253-33264-8 Not long ago women were largely absent from the histories of science, even from social histories of science. With the 1960s came the questions: where were the women? how to do them justice? were there so few? why so few? Several books have now addressed these difficult questions. Charles Darwin gave an answer to the last question, by including ‘the intellectual powers of the sexes’ with the secondary sexual characteristics discussed in The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex .

scholarly journals The 10th April of Spencer Walpole: The Problem of Revolution in Relation to Reform, 1865–1867

1962 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Royden Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Free Action ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come

The 10th April 1848 is one of the most famous days in the history of the nineteenth century. The Chartists of London had screwed themselves up for a decisive trial of strength with the ruling classes. They found themselves outnumbered by the combined resources of the civil and military powers. They shrank back before the prospect of a collision with the vast forces of law and order and property commanded by the Duke of Wellington and Richard Mayne. What was to have been a triumphant demonstration of the overwhelming power and determination of the people, ended in the anything but triumphal progress of a few hired hackney coaches carrying a dubious petition. “The 10th April, 1848 will long be remembered as a great field day of the British Constitution”, announced the Times. “The signal of unconstitutional menace, of violence, of insurrection, of revolution, was yesterday given in our streets, and happily despised by a peaceful, prudent, and loyal metropolis. That is the triumph we claim…. This settles the question. In common fairness it ought to be regarded as a settled question for years to come. The Chartists and Confederates made the challenge, and chose the field and trial of strength. They must stand by their choice. They chose to disturb the metropolis for the chance of something coming of it. They fished for a revolution and have caught a snub. We congratulate them on their booty, which we hope they will divide with their partners in Dublin. It is, perhaps, a fortunate circumstance that so momentous a question as the free action of the British Legislature should be settled thus decisively….”

Game Theory and the History of Ideas about Rationality: An Introductory Survey

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann E. Cudd
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Game Theory ◽  
Instrumental Rationality ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
John Von Neumann ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Rational Interaction

Although it may seem from its formalism that game theory must have sprung from the mind of John von Neumann as a corollary of his work on computers or theoretical physics, it should come as no real surprise to philosophers that game theory is the articulation of a historically developing philosophical conception of rationality in thought and action. The history of ideas about rationality is deeply contradictory at many turns. While there are theories of rationality that claim it is fundamentally social and aims at understanding and molding all facets of human psychological life, game theory takes rationality to be essentially located in individuals and to concern only the means to achieve predetermined ends. Thus, there are some thinkers who have made important contributions to this history who do not appear in the story of game theory at all, among them, Plato, Kant, and Hegel. There is, however, a clear trail to follow linking theories of instrumental rationality from Aristotle to the nineteenth-century marginalist economists and ultimately to von Neumann and Morgenstern and contemporary game theorists, that historically grounds game theory as a model of rational interaction.

scholarly journals Journal of the History of Economic Thought Preprints - Wicksell on Walras's early treatment of capital and interest

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Maffeo ◽  
Fabio Ravagnani ◽  
Andrea Imperia
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Small Circle ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Interest Rate

In this paper we examine the criticism that Knut Wicksell advanced against Walras’s treatment of capital and interest at the end of the nineteenth century, as well as the views of two distinguished followers of Walras concerning the points raised by the Swedish economist. As regards the first aspect, it should be noted that the criticism put forward by Wicksell at that time refers to the earlier editions of the Éléments, in which circulating capital is excluded from the analysis. We thus endeavour to clarify Wicksell’s remarks on the consequences of that exclusion for both the representation of the social production process and the determination of the interest rate. As to the second aspect, our discussion indicates that the appropriate way of treating the capitalistic element of production was an unsettled issue within the small circle of Walras’s followers at the end of the nineteenth century.

The History of Neuropsychology at the Boston VA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Hebben ◽  
Margaret O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Basic Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Behavioral Neurology ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Disciplinary Group

The Veterans Administration’s response to WWII altered the fields of psychology and neurology and made it possible for the Boston VA Hospital to evolve into an environment where neuropsychology, aphasiology, and behavioral neurology could jointly flourish. Starting with Harold Goodglass, Edith Kaplan, and Norman Geschwind in the 1950s, a multi-disciplinary group of clinicians and scientists helped usher in a transition from holistic “black box” empiricist models of the brain to models that were more localizationist and modular. Under the influence of this pioneering trio of astute observers, experimentalists, and thinkers, the Boston VA became the epicenter of basic research in human cognitive and behavioral neuroscience in the world. While signaling a revolution in psychology that unified neurobiology and behavioral principles, the work done at the Boston VA established a direct link from this neuroscience of the mind to patient care, especially as it affected the veterans of the United States.

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