Article ID: CBB268877101

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

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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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Authors & Contributors
Dickson, Melissa
Valentina Mann
Harper, Katherine A.
Fowles, Christopher
Bauchner, Joshua
Mark Paterson
Concepts
Mind and body
Psychology
Philosophy
Neurosciences
Discipline formation
Philosophy of mind
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
Great Britain
Germany
France
England
Leipzig (Germany)
Americas
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