Maine de Biran and Gall’s phrenology: the origins of a debate about the localization of mental faculties

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (5):866-884 (2020)
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In March 1808 at the Institut de France, the German physician Franz Joseph Gall, together with his assistant Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, unveiled his rather controversial doctr...

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