220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1951, Homo Faber is an examination of the scientific outlook on human mental evolution through the lens of parapsychology. The book aims to undermine what its terms, the ‘scientific outlook’ examining the human interpretation of the world, and the preconceived scientific concepts that reality does not extend beyond the realm that our senses reveal. The book expands upon... Read more
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introductory
2. The Non-Specialist Standpoint
3. Science in Action
4. Science in Discovery
5. What Psychical Research Disclosed
6. Homo Faber
7. Nature’s Problem
8. The Intruder
9. Adaptation in Ordinary Life
10. The Adapted Mind in Physics
11. Putting Nature to the Question
12. The Adapted Mind in Biology
13. Mechanism, Vitalism and Emergence
14. The Pattern Behind the Pattern
15. The Adapted Mind in Psychology
16. The Lighted Foreground
17. The Adapted Mind in Philosophy
18. The Fallacy Behind the Modern Outlook
Index
Biography
G. N. M. Tyrrell
