The Englishman: Memoirs of a Psychobiologist - Softcover

Staddon, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908684666 ISBN 13: 9781908684660

Verlag: UNIV OF BUCKINGHAM PR, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Although I have been basically an academic for most of my life, the way I got there has taken some surprising turns. The first four chapters of this memoir describe what I can remember and discover about my early life: an unsuspected ancestry, fun in WW2 London, comical schooldays, and a spell in colonial Africa interrupting a wobbly college career at the end of which I left England for America. In the US I followed again a slightly erratic graduate-school trajectory that ended up in a Harvard basement. The main part of the book is about science, my efforts to understand the world opened up for me by biology, Darwin, the evolving cybernetic revolution and the experimental methods of influential and opinionated behaviorist B. F. Skinner. I have tried to make this part as simple and nontechnical as possible, although a couple of graphs have intruded.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF BUCKINGHAM PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1908684666
• ISBN 13: 9781908684660
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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