New Dictionary of Scientific Biography: Volume 7: Tammes - Zygmund

Gale Group, 2008.- 416 pp. The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (DSB) is a major addition to the magisterial compilation of scientific biographies edited by Charles Gillispie and published by Charles Scribner’s Sons between 1970 and 1980. The original sixteen volumes of the DSB presented scholarly essays on the lives and careers of great scientists, mathematicians, and natural philosophers from the time of Thales, Hippocrates, and Aristotle to such twentieth-century figures as Hubble, Curie, and Einstein. In 1990, two new supplementary volumes were added to cover recently deceased figures such as Rachel Carson, Kurt Gödel, Werner Heisenberg, and Jacques Monod. Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? In their famous 1998 paper "The Extended Mind," philosophers Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers posed this question and answered it cognitive processes "ain't all in the head." The environment has an active role in driving cognition; cognition is sometimes made up of neural, bodily, and environmental processes. Their argument excited a vigorous debate among philosophers, both supporters and detractors. This volume brings together for the first time the best responses to Clark and Chalmers's bold proposal. These responses, together with the original paper by Clark and Chalmers, offer a valuable overview of the latest research on the extended mind thesis. The contributors first discuss (and answer) objections raised to Clark and Chalmers's thesis. Clark himself responds to critics in an essay that uses the movie Memento 's amnesia-aiding notes and tattoos to illustrate the workings of the extended mind. Contributors then consider the different directions in which the extended mind project might be taken, including the need for an approach that focuses on cognitive activity and practice. The New Dictionary Of Scientific Biography, Features More Than 800 Completely New Articles. This New Work Extends, Complements, And Comments Upon The Original Dictionary Of Scientific Biography, Which Contains Thousands Of Biographies Of Mathematicians And Natural Scientists From All Countries And From All Historical Periods. The Dictionary Of Scientific Biography Presents An Accurate And Reliable Narrative Of The Development Of Science, Not As A Mere Accumulation Of Technical Information But As The Collective Accomplishment That Has Ordered Our Understanding Of Nature -- Publisher Website (january 2008). V. 1. Abderhalden-byers -- V. 2. Cabeo-eysenck -- V. 3. Fairey-hypatia -- V. 4. Ibn Al-haytham-luria -- V. 5. Mac Lane-owen -- V. 6. Pachymeres-szilard -- V. 7. Tammes-zygmund -- V. 8. Index. Noretta Koertge, Editor In Chief. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.