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175Alfred Tauber: medicine is ethics: Alfred I. Tauber (1999) Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Bradford Book, MIT Press. xviii + 159 pp. Alfred I. Tauber (2001) Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing. Berkeley: University of California Press. xi + 317 ppHistory of the Human Sciences 15 (4): 145-151. 2002.
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132The idea of the self: Jerrold Seigel's, The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth CenturyHistory of the Human Sciences 19 (2): 93-100. 2006.
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118Does the history of psychology have a subject?History of the Human Sciences 1 (2): 147-177. 1988.
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108Book review: The birth of psychology (review)History of the Human Sciences 22 (1): 134-144. 2009.
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97The sleep of others: Kenton Kroker, The Sleep of Others and the Transformations of Sleep Research. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 533 pp (review)History of the Human Sciences 22 (5): 108-113. 2009.
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66Does reflexivity separate the human sciences from the natural sciences?History of the Human Sciences 18 (4): 1-25. 2005.A number of writers have picked out the way knowledge in the human sciences reflexively alters the human subject as what separates these sciences from the natural sciences. Furthermore, they take this reflexivity to be a condition of moral existence. The article sympathetically examines this emphasis on reflexive processes, but it rejects the particular conclusion that the reflexive phenomenon enables us to demarcate the human sciences. The first sections analyse the different meanings that refe…Read more
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41History and the history of the human sciences: what voice?History of the Human Sciences 10 (3): 22-39. 1997.This paper discusses the historical voice in the history of the human sci ences. I address the question, 'Who speaks?', as a question about disci plinary identities and conventions of writing - identities and conventions which have the appearance of conditions of knowledge, in an area of activity where academic history and the history of science or intellectual history meet. If, as this paper contends, the subject-matter of the history of the human sciences is inherently contestable because of f…Read more
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35The background of physiological psychology in natural philosophyHistory of Science 11 (2): 75-123. 1973.
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29The Senses of Touch and Movement and the Argument for Active PowersHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 11 (2): 679-699. 2021.The paper posits a relationship between the sensory modality of touch, including a sense of active movement, and early modern knowledge of active powers in nature. It seeks to appreciate the strength and appeal of knowledge built on the active-passive distinction, including that which was retrospectively labeled animist. Using statements by Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Stahl, rather than detailed new readings of texts, the paper asks whether scholars drew on phenomenal, or con…Read more
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26Resisting neurosciences and sustaining historyHistory of the Human Sciences 32 (1): 9-22. 2019.The article began life as, and retains the character of, spoken argument for not allowing the neurosciences to shape the agenda of the history of the human sciences. This argument is then used to suggest purposes and content for the journal, History of the Human Sciences. The style is rhetorical, even polemical, but open-ended. I challenge two clichés about the neurosciences, that they intellectually challenge other areas of knowledge, and that they are reconfiguring the human with the notion of…Read more
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21Reviews : Mitchell G. Ash and William R. Woodward (eds), Psychology in Twentieth-Century Thought and Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, £30.00, ix + 320 pp (review)History of the Human Sciences 2 (1): 105-108. 1989.
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15Museums of Madness: The Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century England by Andrew T. Scull (review)Isis 71 328-328. 1980.
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13Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human NatureColumbia University Press. 2007.Challenging commonly held biological, religious, and ethical beliefs, internationally well known historian of science Roger Smith boldly argues that human nature is not some "thing" awaiting discovery but is active in understanding itself. According to Smith, "being human" is a self-creation made possible through a reflective circle of thought and action, with a past and a future, and studying this "history" from a range of perspectives is fundamental to human self-understanding. Smith's argumen…Read more
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12Why and How Do I Write the History of Science?Science in Context 26 (4): 611-625. 2013.I make a large claim for the intellectual and institutional centrality of the history of science as critical reason. The reality on the ground, of course, does not always exhibit this. I trace the vicissitudes of my own way of thought in relation to developments in the field, leading to an interest, first, in relating intellectual history (with its philosophical orientation) to mainstream (evidence based) history, and second, to finding a place for the human sciences in the history of science. T…Read more
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10The Norton History of the Human SciencesW. W. Norton & Company. 1997.A comprehensive history of the human sciences -- psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science -- from their precursors in early human culture to the present.This erudite yet accessible volume in Norton's highly praised History of Science series tracks the long and circuitous path by which human beings came to see themselves and their societies as scientific subjects like any other. Beginning with the Renaissance's rediscovery of Greek psychology, political philosophy, an…Read more
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6The Secularization of the Soul: Psychical Research in Modern Britain by John J. Cerullo (review)Isis 74 602-603. 1983.
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5The sleep of others: Kenton Kroker, The Sleep of Others and the Transformations of Sleep Research. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 533 pp (review)History of the Human Sciences 22 (5): 108-113. 2009.
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1Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna J. Haraway (review)Isis 83 350-351. 1992.
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Contributions and correspondence should be sent to the editorial assistant at university of Durham centre for the history of the human sciencesHistory of the Human Sciences 3 (2): 158. 1990.
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The authority of natural science : knowledge and belief about man's place in natureIn M. T. Stepani͡ant͡s (ed.), Knowledge and Belief in the Dialogue of Cultures, Council For Research in Values and Philosophy. 2009.
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The language of human natureIn C. Fox, R. Porter & R. Wokler (eds.), Inventing Human Science, University of California Press. pp. 88--111. 1995.