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Meeting 9  •  October 28 — George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)

George Herbert Mead

• Shalin, Dmitri N. "George Herbert Mead." The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists. RITZER, GEORGE (ed). Blackwell Publishing, 2003.  •  Blackwell Reference Online.
• Lewis, David, Raymond McLain, Andrew Weigert. "Vital Realism and Sociology: A Metatheoretical Grounding in Mead, Ortega, and Schutz," Sociological Theory (Vol. 11, No. 1 March, 1993), pp. 72-95.  •  JSTOR.

• Mead, George H. “Scientific Method and the Moral Sciences.” International Journal of Ethics (Vol. 33, No. 3, April 1923) pp.229-247.  •  JSTOR.
• Mead, George Herbert. “The Genesis of the Self and Social Control.” International Journal of Ethics (Vol. 35, No. 3, April 1925) pp. 251-277.  •  JSTOR.

• The Mead Project. A treasure trove of resources by Mead and those relevant to him.
• Mead, George Herbert. “Scientific Method and Individual Thinker.” In Dewey, John, Harold Chapman Brown, George Herbert Mead, Boyd Henry Bode, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts, et al. Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude. (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1917).  •  Google Books.
• Mead, George H. “The Philosophical Basis of Ethics.” International Journal of Ethics 18, no. 3 (April 1908): 311-323. JSTOR.
• Mead, George H. “National-Mindedness and International-Mindedness.” International Journal of Ethics 39, no. 4 (July 1929): 385-407. JSTOR.
• Mead, George Herbert. “The Philosophies of Royce, James, and Dewey in Their American Setting.” International Journal of Ethics 40, no. 2 (January 1930): 211-231. JSTOR.
• Mead, George H. “Cooley's Contribution to American Social Thought.” The American Journal of Sociology 35, no. 5 (March 1930): 693-706. JSTOR.

For the French neuroscience I mentioned in class today, see the following:

• Berthoz, Alain. The Brain's Sense of Movement. Giselle Weiss, trans. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000).
• Changeux, Jean-Pierre. The Physiology of Truth : Neuroscience and Human Knowledge. M. B. DeBevoise, trans. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009). I read the French version (2002) and was deeply impressed and am looking forward to reading the translation. For Changeux, see also Neuronal Man : The Biology of Mind. Laurence Garey, trans. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).

In addition, the work of Michael Tomasello is also very interesting in relating Mead's work to current anthropological/lingustic research:

• Tomasello, Michael. The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).
• Tomasello, Michael. Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based theory of Language Acquisition. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003).

Tomasello has recently published two further books, which look to me as if they will be very interesting, but I have not read them yet: Origins of Human Communication (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2008) and Why We Cooperate (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2009).

Rom2 01:08, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Since i put out both Mirror Neurons and wolf children, and Robbie provided great links, i thought i should at least include something to the latter. The term is actually "feral children" and wikipedia offers a start to getting up to speed on the phenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child. As odd as a juxtaposition as mirror neurons and feral children are - i do think they speak to Mead's notion that "We must be others if we are to be ourselves" (276). This seems both true on a deep cognitive level and in a matter of human relations. Might also connect this to the imagination, from Maxine Greene in Releasing the Imagination, “Is it not imagination that allows us to encounter the other as disclosed through the image of that other’s face?” (37). - Nick Nsousanis 17:43, 4 November 2009 (UTC)