Nineteenth-century mental science was open to a wide spectrum of hypotheses, supported by the testimonial evidence of an equally diverse group of researchers.A long arc can be drawn across the century, tracing the development of mental science from an investigation of soul as much as brain to a body of associated research fields dominated by empiricist research methods and...
IntroductionHow might a forest think?This is a question Ursula K. Le Guin explores in "Vaster than Empires and More Slow" (1971) and The Word for World is Forest (1972), two stories set in strange forests on imaginary, alien worlds.Le Guin's forests are no mere settings, however, but complex, agential, sensitive, and sentient entities.Part of the Hainish series, the plots of these two novellas...