The Englishman: Memoirs of a Psychobiologist - Brossura

Staddon, John

 
9781908684660: The Englishman: Memoirs of a Psychobiologist
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ISBN 10: 1908684666 ISBN 13: 9781908684660
Casa editrice: Univ of Buckingham Pr, 2016

Sinossi

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.

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L'autore

John Staddon is a James B. Duke Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Biology and Neurobiology, Emeritus, at Duke University. He has worked in many universities around the world, including MIT, Oxford, and the University of Toronto. He is the author of "The New Behaviorism" (2014) and "Adaptive Behavior and Learning" (2016), among other books.

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Editore
Univ of Buckingham Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2016
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1908684666
ISBN 13 
9781908684660
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
303
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