Herbert Spencer Jennings
Herbert Spencer Jennings 1868-1947, American zoologist, b. Tonica, Ill., B.S. Univ. of Michigan, 1893, Ph.D. Harvard, 1896. He was professor of zoology at Johns Hopkins (1906-10) and did research on genetics (especially heredity and variation in microorganisms) and on animal behavior there from 1910 to 1938 and from 1939 at the Univ. of California. His demonstration that physical and chemical stimuli produce responses in lower animals disproved the current belief that their behavior was controlled by will and intelligence. His works include Behavior of the Lower Organisms (1906), The Biological Basis of Human Nature (1930), and Genetics (1935).
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Herbert Spencer; a Primary and Secondary Bibliography, 2 vols.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...bones. So let it be with Spencer'. Had Shakespeare lived...much of this century Herbert Spencer has been remembered...Robert G. Perrin's Herbert Spencer, a primary and...democratic institutions, Spencer responded: `A large...No serious student of Herbert Spencer will ...
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Francis, Mark. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; FRANCIS, Mark. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life...nineteenth-century English intellectual Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) is remembered...Constitution "does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics." Mark...
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Matthew Arnold and Herbert Spencer: a neglected connection in the Victorian debate about scientific and literary education.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...little notice has been paid to it, Herbert Spencer was also an important figure for...Arnold had no personal respect for Spencer the self-taught philosopher of...been paid to his dealings with Herbert Spencer on the same subject, which...
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In defense of Herbert Spencer.(CONTROVERSY)(Essay)
Magazine article from: Independent Review; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...nineteenth-century intellectual giant Herbert Spencer's Principles of Ethics in two...introduction by Tibor R. Machan. Spencer's magnificent tome is full of...more questionable. Calling it "Herbert Spencer: A Century Later," Machan...
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In Defense of Herbert Spencer
Magazine article from: The Independent Review; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...nineteenth-century intellectual giant Herbert Spencer's Principles of Ethics in two...introduction by Tibor R. Machan. Spencer's magnificent tome is full of...more questionable. Calling it "Herbert Spencer: A Century Later," Machan...
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Herbert Spencer: Libertarian Prophet
Magazine article from: Freeman; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...ago, the English social theorist Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was widely considered...virtually unknown. Textbooks summarize Spencer in a few lines as a "Social Darwinist...proponent of "might makes right," Spencer wrote that the "desire to command...
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Equal Freedom and Utility: Herbert Spencer's Liberal Utilitarianism.(Review)
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Weinstein's excellent new study of Herbert Spencer makes a similar revisionist claim...then the same can be done for Spencer, Weinstein claims. The book is...a contextualist interpreter of Spencer. He certainly connects his interpretation...
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Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don.(Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...2007. viii, 285 pp. $95.00 US (cloth). Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life, by Mark Francis...and no less than "the Invention of Modern Life" in Herbert Spencer's. These two men, born only seven years apart...
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Cults of Ignorance.("Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget")(Book Review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 5/5/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget...Egan (Yale, 224 pp., $25) 'Spencer is unreadable today," the literary...acknowledged expert upon it." Indeed, Herbert Spencer's ideological mix of...
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Getting it wrong from the beginning: our progressivist inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Education; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...presuppositions of 19th-century British philosopher Herbert Spencer. Rather than simply parroting faulty progressivist...approach to schooling. There is no disputing that Herbert Spencer constitutes a major intellectual figure in the philosophical...
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Herbert Spencer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher, scientist, engineer...development of economics, political science, biology, and philosophy. Herbert Spencer was born in Derby on April 27, 1820. His childhood, described...
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Spencer, Herbert
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Spencer, Herbert 1820 – 1903 Herbert Spencer (1820 – 1903) was a nineteenth-century English social philosopher who sought to explain all domains of the universe in terms of some “ cardinal ” or “...
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Gasser, Herbert Spencer
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Gasser, Herbert Spencer ( b . Platteville, Wisconsin, 5 July 1888; d . New York, N...had led his father to acquire the works of Darwin, Huxley, and Herbert Spencer, which the younger Gasser read avidly. He entered the University...
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Herbert Spencer Hadley
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Herbert Spencer Hadley 1872-1927, American lawyer, b. Olathe, Kans. As attorney general of Missouri (1905-9), he successfully prosecuted...
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Herbert Spencer Jennings
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Herbert Spencer Jennings 1868-1947, American zoologist, b. Tonica, Ill., B.S. Univ. of Michigan, 1893, Ph.D. Harvard, 1896...
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