Homo Faber: A Study of Man's Mental Evolution

ISBN-13: 9780367273569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str.

G. N. M. Tyrrell

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

G. N. M. Tyrrell