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Merlin Donald is widely known as the author of two books on human cognition, Origins of the Modern Mind and A Mind So Rare. His central thesis across these works is that the human capacity for symbolic thought arises not from the evolution of a language-specific mental module, but out of evolutionary changes to the prefrontal cortex affecting the executive function of the primate brain.
Law and the Modern Mind is a 1930 book by Jerome Frank which argued that judicial decisions were more influenced by psychological factors than by objective legal premises. Frank, then a legal academic, published the book after having undergone six months of psychoanalysis .
Jerome New Frank (September 10, 1889 – January 13, 1957) was an American legal philosopher and author who played a leading role in the legal realism movement. [1] He was chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Randall was born on February 14, 1899, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.The son of John Herman Randall Sr., a Baptist minister, he obtained his A.B. from Columbia University in 1918.
The mimetic theory of development was the central pillar in Donald's three-part model of symbolic cognition proposed in his 1991 book Origins of the Modern Mind.. Origins of the Modern Mind proposes a three-stage development of human symbolic capacity through culture:
Allen wrote two books of art criticism, The Mirror of the Passing World (1928) and Painters of the Modern Mind (1929), based on her lectures. In 1930 Allen curated the first exhibition of Australian art in New York, "First Contemporary All-Australian Art Exhibition", at the Roerich Museum. During her lectures and talks in Australia, she helped ...
The trio discusses the issues they think will be top of mind for company leaders this year. AI, of course, takes the top spot. ... So these are things that I think in today's modern work ...
His first book was Remaking the Modern Mind, 1946. His second book, The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism, 1947, is a critique that rejects modern liberalism and preserves a doctrinal focus on the Bible, but also rejects the rigidness and disengagement of Fundamentalists. The book firmly established Henry as one of the leading ...