UID:
edocfu_9960119433502883
Format:
1 online resource (xxii, 737 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-69422-9
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Darwin
Content:
William Carpenter was trained as a doctor; he was apprenticed to an eye surgeon, & later attended University College London & the University of Edinburgh, obtaining his M.D. in 1839. Rather than practising medicine, he became a teacher, specialising in neurology, & it was his work as a zoologist on marine invertebrates that brought him wide scientific recognition. His Principles of Mental Physiology, published in 1874, developed the ideas he had first expounded in the 1850s, & expounds the arguments for & against the two models of psychology then current - automatism, which assumed that the mind operates under the control of the physiology of the body for all human activity, & free will, 'an independent power, controlling & directing that activity.' Drawing on animal as well as human examples, his arguments, especially on the acquisition of mental traits in the individual, are much influenced by Darwin.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2010.
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Originally published: London: Henry S. King & Co., 1874.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-00528-4
Language:
English
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