Biological Memory

First published in 1999. This is Volume XVI of twenty-one of a series on Cognitive Psychology. Written in 1926, considered from a philosophic viewpoint, this is an English translation of Professor Rignano's work, Biological Memory," which gives an exhaustive analysis of the differences which distinguish living from non-living substance and his attempts to account for these differences as the manifold effects of a single quality.

Eugenio Rignano, E W MacBride

Introduction, E. W. MacBride; Author's Preface; Part 1 Biological Memory; Chapter 1 The Transformist Hypotheses Lead to the Mnemonic Theories of Development; Chapter 2 The Hypothesis of a Plasmatic Action Radiating from a Centre as the Basis of a Mnemonic Theory of Development; Chapter 3 The Hypothesis of a Plasmatic Action Radiating from a Centre as the Basis of a Mnemonic Theory of Development-(continued); Chapter 4 The Energetic Properties of Biological Memory; Chapter 5 The Mnemonic Theory of Semon; Chapter 6 A Botanical Supporter of Mnemonic Theories; Chapter 7 Teleology and Memory; Chapter 8 The Mnemonic Basis of the Purposefulness (Finalism) of Life (This Chapter was originally delivered as an address entitled "The purposefulness of life," to the College of France, on April 24th, 1920.); Chapter 9 The Mnemonic Basis of the Purposefulnes of Life (Continued); Chapter 10 Physico - Chemical Theories and Mnemonic Theories Considered in Relation to the Most Characteristic Manifestations of Life. The Physico-Chemical Point of View; Chapter 11 Physico - Chemical Theories and Mnemonic Theories Considered in Relation to the Most Characteristic Manifestations of Life. The Mnemonic Point of View; Chapter 12 Biological Memory and the Functioning of the Intelligence1A paper communicated to the Congress of the American, English, French and Italian Philosophical Societies held in Paris from the 27th to the 31st of December, 1921.; Chapter 13 Biological Memory and the Functioning of the Intelligence (Continued); Chapter 14 Conclusion;