C U M Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 1695688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C U M Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | C U M |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH C U M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Brain, Mind and Medicine
A strand of vermicelli
Although much has been written about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the part played by Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) has been almost entirely neglected. This is odd as, apart from some ghost stories, Dr Darwin is the one influence mentioned in both the 1816 and 1831 prefaces to the book. The present contribution aims to redress that omission. It aims to show that Darwin's ideas about spontaneous generation, his anti-establishment ideas, and his litera…
Worlds in Collision
The Argument This paper makes use of the 1860 clash between T. H. Huxley and Richard Owen to examine the role of social context in scientific advance in the biological sciences. It shows how the social context of nineteenth-century England first favored the Coleridge-Owenite interpretation of the biological world and then, at mid-century and subsequently, allowed the Darwin-Huxley interpretation to win through. It emphasizes the complexity of the…
“Clever beasts who invented knowing”
David Hartley's Newtonian neuropsychology
David Hartley's association psychology has been immensely influential. His vibrationist neurophysiology has, in contrast, been largely overlooked and forgotten. Hartley's vibration theory is examined. On the one hand it is shown how closely it is related to Sir Isaac Newton's mathematical physics and on the other how well it complements the association theory. The vibration theory, indeed, strongly influenced Hartley's associationist psychology a…
Herbert Spencer's epigenetic epistemology
Aristotle
By Dante called ‘the master of them that know’, Aristotle by common consent bestrides the ancient and late mediaeval worlds (1). Born at Stagira in Thrace of a medical family, he entered the Platonic Academy in 367 BC when seventeen years of age. For twenty years he worked in close contact with the elder philosopher by whom he is reputed to have been called ‘the intellect of the school’. On Plato’s death in 347 BC he composed a eulogy in which he…
The Problem of Life
The Problem of Life 'VITRUVIAN' MAN Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing illustrates the theory of proportion worked out by the first-century Roman architect, Vitruvius.The theory proposed that a wellproportioned human body with feet together and arms outstretched fitted exactly into a square: a spread-eagled body, on the other hand, could be inscribed in a circle centred on the navel.Although Leonardo collected much data from living models, the re…
Aristotle
By Dante called ‘the master of them that know’, Aristotle by common consent bestrides the ancient and late mediaeval worlds (1). Born at Stagira in Thrace of a medical family, he entered the Platonic Academy in 367 BC when seventeen years of age. For twenty years he worked in close contact with the elder philosopher by whom he is reputed to have been called ‘the intellect of the school’. On Plato’s death in 347 BC he composed a eulogy in which he…
The Problem of Life
The Problem of Life 'VITRUVIAN' MAN Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing illustrates the theory of proportion worked out by the first-century Roman architect, Vitruvius.The theory proposed that a wellproportioned human body with feet together and arms outstretched fitted exactly into a square: a spread-eagled body, on the other hand, could be inscribed in a circle centred on the navel.Although Leonardo collected much data from living models, the re…
Herbert Spencer's epigenetic epistemology
“Clever beasts who invented knowing”
David Hartley's Newtonian neuropsychology
David Hartley's association psychology has been immensely influential. His vibrationist neurophysiology has, in contrast, been largely overlooked and forgotten. Hartley's vibration theory is examined. On the one hand it is shown how closely it is related to Sir Isaac Newton's mathematical physics and on the other how well it complements the association theory. The vibration theory, indeed, strongly influenced Hartley's associationist psychology a…
Worlds in Collision
The Argument This paper makes use of the 1860 clash between T. H. Huxley and Richard Owen to examine the role of social context in scientific advance in the biological sciences. It shows how the social context of nineteenth-century England first favored the Coleridge-Owenite interpretation of the biological world and then, at mid-century and subsequently, allowed the Darwin-Huxley interpretation to win through. It emphasizes the complexity of the…
Brain, Mind and Medicine
A strand of vermicelli
Although much has been written about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the part played by Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) has been almost entirely neglected. This is odd as, apart from some ghost stories, Dr Darwin is the one influence mentioned in both the 1816 and 1831 prefaces to the book. The present contribution aims to redress that omission. It aims to show that Darwin's ideas about spontaneous generation, his anti-establishment ideas, and his litera…
Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Neurology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Neuroscience (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)