Henry Dicks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henry Dicks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henry |
| FAMILY NAME | Dicks |
| SIGNATURE | DICKS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9534-0299 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Contemporary Biomimicry and the Neglect of Aesthetics
Biomimicry—the imitation of nature—is an increasingly popular approach to innovation. In its contemporary form, it aims to imitate only the functional features of natural entities (how they work), not their aesthetic ones (what they look like), conceptualizing the latter as a separate design approach: bio-morphism. In keeping with this, philosophers have analysed biomimicry in relation to four mains branches of philosophy: ontology, philosophy of…
Biomimetic Epistemology
Imitating nature is an ever more popular strategy in many fields of science and engineering research, from ecological engineering to artificial intelligence. But while biomimetics and related fields have recently attracted increased attention from philosophers, there has been relatively little engagement with what I suggest we see as their basic epistemological presupposition: that we may acquire knowledge from nature. I argue that emphasizing an…
The Biomimicry Revolution
Henry Dicks explores the philosophical significance of biomimicry, the application and adaptation of strategies found in nature to the development of artificial products and systems. He argues that biomimicry can serve as the basis for a new environmental philosophy that radically alters how we understand and relate to the natural world
What Lies Concealed in the Roots of Cybernetics
In the Post-War period, cybernetics came to assume the role of unifying ground of science and technology. In doing so, it not only usurped philosophy, but also replaced the basic concepts of philosophy (being, existence, becoming, appearing, etc.) with those of cybernetics (information, communication, control, feedback, etc.). And yet, as both Heidegger and Morin each in their different ways make clear, there lies concealed in the roots of cybern…
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en collaboration avec Claude Lefort et Jean-Marc Coudray ; La rumeur d'Orlans, 1969). C'est aussi un important penseur de la complexit, comme en tmoignent les six volumes de La Mthode : 1. La nature de la nature (1977) ; 2. La vie de la vie (1980) ; 3. La connaissance de la connaissance (1986) ; 4. Les ides. Leur habitat, leur vie, leurs moeurs, leur organisation (1991) ; 5. L'humanit de l'humanit. L'identit humaine (2001) ; 6. thique (2004). Il …
Dossier
This article argues that by the time of the Groupe des Dix’s dissolution in 1976, at least some of its members had departed significantly from the intellectual framework inherited from America’s Cybernetics Group. Focusing on two key publications of 1977, Edgar Morin’s La méthode, tome 1 : la nature de la nature and Michel Serres’s La naissance de la physique dans le texte de Lucrèce. Fleuves et turbulences , I show how the group’s two most philo…
The Biomimicry Revolution in Environmental Epistemology
Environmental epistemology is at present a rather marginal branch of environmental philosophy. The aim of the present article is to propose a major new approach to environmental epistemology, which I propose to call “biomimetic epistemology,” the guiding principle of which is “nature as mentor,” and which, in keeping with this principle, takes as its subject matter both the idea and the phenomenon of learning from nature. Beginning with a brief s…
Dossier
Dossier : Le Groupe des Dix, des précurseurs de l'interdisciplinarité ★ Voir dans ce
Environmental Ethics and Biomimetic Ethics
A New Way of Valuing Nature
The Philosophy of Biomimicry
Sélection thématique de livres
Henri Laborit (1914-1995) est un neurochirurgien ayant mis au point les premiers procédés d’anesthésie par hibernation pour opérer les blessés de guerre. Il se distingua avec la synthèse des premiers antidépresseurs utilisés en neuropsychiatrie dès les années 1950. La connaissance précise du fonctionnement du système neurocérébral constitue la base d’une réflexion épistémologique et philosophique sur le comportement des hommes en société. Loin d’…
Colloques et documents
Henri Laborit (1914-1995) est un neurochirurgien ayant mis au point les premiers procédés d’anesthésie par hibernation pour opérer les blessés de guerre. Il se distingua avec la synthèse des premiers antidépresseurs utilisés en neuropsychiatrie dès les années 1950. La connaissance précise du fonctionnement du système neurocérébral constitue la base d’une réflexion épistémologique et philosophique sur le comportement des hommes en société. Loin d’…
A Phenomenological Approach to Water in the City
Ivan Illich and Jamie Linton have both argued that our current technological relation to water constitutes an abstraction. Developing this insight in the context of phenomenology, I draw on Michel Haar's French translation of Gestell-the essence of technology, according to Heidegger-as 'consommation' (consumption), to put forward a criticism of the abstract status of water in postindustrial, consumer societies. I propose in its place a concrete, …
Licensed Mass Murder
Object relations theory and marital studies
National Loyalty, Identity, and the International Soldier
This essay attempts to envisage potential conflicts of loyalty in the minds of soldiers of a future international peace force and to review some of the means and steps by which such conflicts might be eased or prevented. For it is a fundamental of co'llective action that for any group to be effective in pursuing its object its members must be reasonably free from crises of loyalty
Psychological Factors in Prejudice
Clinical Studies in Marriage and the Family
Psychoanalysis and Politics
Journal Article Psychoanalysis and Politics: a Contribution to the Psychology of Politics and Morals Get access Psychoanalysis and Politics: a Contribution to the Psychology of Politics and Morals. By R. E. Money-Kyrle. London, Duckworth, 1951. 182 pp. Index. (Social Science Studies.) 712′ ′×5′ ′ . 9s. H. V. Dicks H. V. Dicks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 28, Issue 1, Januar…
Observations on Contemporary Russi Behaviour
Psychological Factors of Peace and War
Personality Traits and National Socialist Ideology
In Search of Our Proper Ethic
The Americans
Journal Article The Americans: A Study in National Character Get access The Americans: A Study in National Character. By Geoffrey Gorer. London, Cresset Press, 1948. 834′ ′×512′ ′ . 10s. 6d. H. V. Dicks H. V. Dicks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 25, Issue 2, April 1949, Page 242, https://doi.org/10.2307/3017493 Published: 01 April 1949
Observations on Contemporary Russi Behaviour
Personality Traits and National Socialist Ideology
A Phenomenological Approach to Water in the City
Ivan Illich and Jamie Linton have both argued that our current technological relation to water constitutes an abstraction. Developing this insight in the context of phenomenology, I draw on Michel Haar's French translation of Gestell-the essence of technology, according to Heidegger-as 'consommation' (consumption), to put forward a criticism of the abstract status of water in postindustrial, consumer societies. I propose in its place a concrete, …
Object relations theory and marital studies
Psychological Factors in Prejudice
A New Way of Valuing Nature
Clinical Studies in Marriage and the Family
National Loyalty, Identity, and the International Soldier
This essay attempts to envisage potential conflicts of loyalty in the minds of soldiers of a future international peace force and to review some of the means and steps by which such conflicts might be eased or prevented. For it is a fundamental of co'llective action that for any group to be effective in pursuing its object its members must be reasonably free from crises of loyalty
The Americans
Journal Article The Americans: A Study in National Character Get access The Americans: A Study in National Character. By Geoffrey Gorer. London, Cresset Press, 1948. 834′ ′×512′ ′ . 10s. 6d. H. V. Dicks H. V. Dicks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 25, Issue 2, April 1949, Page 242, https://doi.org/10.2307/3017493 Published: 01 April 1949
Post War Germans
Journal Article Post War Germans: An Anthropologist's Account Get access Post War Germans: An Anthropologist's Account. By David Rodnick. 1948. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. 91⁄2′′× 6′′. 233 pp. Index. 21s.) H. V. Dicks H. V. Dicks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 24, Issue 4, October 1948, Pages 596–597, https://…
A Clinical Study of Obsession
Post War Germans
Journal Article Post War Germans: An Anthropologist's Account Get access Post War Germans: An Anthropologist's Account. By David Rodnick. 1948. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. 91⁄2′′× 6′′. 233 pp. Index. 21s.) H. V. Dicks H. V. Dicks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 24, Issue 4, October 1948, Pages 596–597, https://…
The Americans
Journal Article The Americans: A Study in National Character Get access The Americans: A Study in National Character. By Geoffrey Gorer. London, Cresset Press, 1948. 834′ ′×512′ ′ . 10s. 6d. H. V. Dicks H. V. Dicks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 25, Issue 2, April 1949, Page 242, https://doi.org/10.2307/3017493 Published: 01 April 1949
Personality Traits and National Socialist Ideology
In Search of Our Proper Ethic
Psychological Factors of Peace and War
Psychoanalysis and Politics
Journal Article Psychoanalysis and Politics: a Contribution to the Psychology of Politics and Morals Get access Psychoanalysis and Politics: a Contribution to the Psychology of Politics and Morals. By R. E. Money-Kyrle. London, Duckworth, 1951. 182 pp. Index. (Social Science Studies.) 712′ ′×5′ ′ . 9s. H. V. Dicks H. V. Dicks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 28, Issue 1, Januar…
Observations on Contemporary Russi Behaviour
Clinical Studies in Marriage and the Family
Psychological Factors in Prejudice
Object relations theory and marital studies
National Loyalty, Identity, and the International Soldier
This essay attempts to envisage potential conflicts of loyalty in the minds of soldiers of a future international peace force and to review some of the means and steps by which such conflicts might be eased or prevented. For it is a fundamental of co'llective action that for any group to be effective in pursuing its object its members must be reasonably free from crises of loyalty
Licensed Mass Murder
A Phenomenological Approach to Water in the City
Ivan Illich and Jamie Linton have both argued that our current technological relation to water constitutes an abstraction. Developing this insight in the context of phenomenology, I draw on Michel Haar's French translation of Gestell-the essence of technology, according to Heidegger-as 'consommation' (consumption), to put forward a criticism of the abstract status of water in postindustrial, consumer societies. I propose in its place a concrete, …
Sélection thématique de livres
Henri Laborit (1914-1995) est un neurochirurgien ayant mis au point les premiers procédés d’anesthésie par hibernation pour opérer les blessés de guerre. Il se distingua avec la synthèse des premiers antidépresseurs utilisés en neuropsychiatrie dès les années 1950. La connaissance précise du fonctionnement du système neurocérébral constitue la base d’une réflexion épistémologique et philosophique sur le comportement des hommes en société. Loin d’…
Colloques et documents
Henri Laborit (1914-1995) est un neurochirurgien ayant mis au point les premiers procédés d’anesthésie par hibernation pour opérer les blessés de guerre. Il se distingua avec la synthèse des premiers antidépresseurs utilisés en neuropsychiatrie dès les années 1950. La connaissance précise du fonctionnement du système neurocérébral constitue la base d’une réflexion épistémologique et philosophique sur le comportement des hommes en société. Loin d’…
The Philosophy of Biomimicry
Environmental Ethics and Biomimetic Ethics
A New Way of Valuing Nature
Dossier
en collaboration avec Claude Lefort et Jean-Marc Coudray ; La rumeur d'Orlans, 1969). C'est aussi un important penseur de la complexit, comme en tmoignent les six volumes de La Mthode : 1. La nature de la nature (1977) ; 2. La vie de la vie (1980) ; 3. La connaissance de la connaissance (1986) ; 4. Les ides. Leur habitat, leur vie, leurs moeurs, leur organisation (1991) ; 5. L'humanit de l'humanit. L'identit humaine (2001) ; 6. thique (2004). Il …
Dossier
This article argues that by the time of the Groupe des Dix’s dissolution in 1976, at least some of its members had departed significantly from the intellectual framework inherited from America’s Cybernetics Group. Focusing on two key publications of 1977, Edgar Morin’s La méthode, tome 1 : la nature de la nature and Michel Serres’s La naissance de la physique dans le texte de Lucrèce. Fleuves et turbulences , I show how the group’s two most philo…
The Biomimicry Revolution in Environmental Epistemology
Environmental epistemology is at present a rather marginal branch of environmental philosophy. The aim of the present article is to propose a major new approach to environmental epistemology, which I propose to call “biomimetic epistemology,” the guiding principle of which is “nature as mentor,” and which, in keeping with this principle, takes as its subject matter both the idea and the phenomenon of learning from nature. Beginning with a brief s…
Dossier
Dossier : Le Groupe des Dix, des précurseurs de l'interdisciplinarité ★ Voir dans ce
What Lies Concealed in the Roots of Cybernetics
In the Post-War period, cybernetics came to assume the role of unifying ground of science and technology. In doing so, it not only usurped philosophy, but also replaced the basic concepts of philosophy (being, existence, becoming, appearing, etc.) with those of cybernetics (information, communication, control, feedback, etc.). And yet, as both Heidegger and Morin each in their different ways make clear, there lies concealed in the roots of cybern…
The Biomimicry Revolution
Henry Dicks explores the philosophical significance of biomimicry, the application and adaptation of strategies found in nature to the development of artificial products and systems. He argues that biomimicry can serve as the basis for a new environmental philosophy that radically alters how we understand and relate to the natural world
Psychology (15 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Library science (5 works) · Art (4 works)