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Robert M. Young's Mind, Brain and Adaptation Revisited (2021)

British Journal for the History of Science
Volume: 54
Issue: 1
Pages: 61-77

URI: http://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/article/robert-m-youngs-mind-brain-and-adaptation-revisited/6896719470FBB886C23398325DA81035

DOI: 10.1017/S0007087420000667

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Biographies Psychology Mind and body 19th century Great Britain Young, Robert Maxwell

Robert Maxwell Young's first book Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century (1970), written from 1960 to 1965, still merits reading as a study of the naturalization of mind and its relation to social thought in Victorian Britain. I examine the book from two perspectives that give the volume its unique character: first, Young's interest in psychology, which he considered should be used to inform humane professional practices and be the basis of social reform; second, new approaches to the history of scientific ideas. I trace Young's intellectual interests to the Yale Philosophy Department, the Cambridge Department of Experimental Psychology and a new history and philosophy of science community. Although Young changed his political outlook and historiography radically after 1965, he always remained faithful to ideas about thought and practice described in Mind, Brain.

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