Homo Faber - A Study of Man''s Mental Evolution

Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1951, Homo Faber is an examination of the scientific outlook on human mental evolution. The book aims to undermine what its terms, the ‘scientific outlook’ and the preconceived scientific concepts that reality does not extend beyond our senses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Abbreviations 1. Introductory 2. The Non-Specialist Standpoint 3. Science in Action 4. Science in Discovery 5. What Psychical Research Disclosed 6. Homo Faber 7. Nature’s Problem 8. The Intruder 9. Adaptation in Ordinary Life 10. The Adapted Mind in Physics 11. Putting Nature to the Question 12. The Adapted Mind in Biology 13. Mechanism, Vitalism and Emergence 14. The Pattern Behind the Pattern 15. The Adapted Mind in Psychology 16. The Lighted Foreground 17. The Adapted Mind in Philosophy 18. The Fallacy Behind the Modern Outlook Index

Product details

• Authors: G. N. M. Tyrrell
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780367273538
• ISBN: 978-0-367-27353-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Libary Editions: Evolution; Routledge Library Editions: Evolution
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Parapsychology, fringe sciences; NATURE / General, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Experimental Psychology, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Parapsychological studies, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Psychic Phenomena / General