Eugenio Rignano

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Eugenio Rignano (31 May, 1870, Livorno – 9 February, 1930, Milan) was a Jewish Italian philosopher.

Rignano edited the journal Scientia. His book The Psychology of Reasoning (1923) influenced the social anthropologist Edward Evans-Pritchard.[1] His book Man Not a Machine (1926) was replied to by Joseph Needham's Man A Machine (1927).[2]

Works

  • Upon the inheritance of acquired characters; a hypothesis of heredity, development, and assimilation. Translated by Basil C. H. Harvey, 1906.
  • Essays in scientific synthesis. Translated by W. J. Greenstreet, Chicago: The Open Court Pub. Co., 1918.
  • The psychology of reasoning. Translated by Winifred A. Holl, 1923. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method
  • The social significance of the inheritance tax. Translated by William John Schultz, New York: A.A. Knopf, 1924. Introduction by Edwin R. A. Seligman. English ed. (1925) as The social significance of death duties, with an introduction by Sir Josiah Stamp.
  • Man not a machine; a study of the finalistic aspects of life, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1926. With a foreword by Professor Hans Driesch.
  • Biological memory. Translated by Ernest MacBride, 1926. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.
  • The aim of human existence; being a system of morality based on the harmony of life. Translated from the French by Paul Crissman and Edward L. Schaub, Chicago: The Open Court Pub. Co., 1929. Reprinted from The Monist, January, 1929.
  • The nature of life. Translated by N. Mallinson, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930

References

  1. ↑ Mary Douglas, Edward Evans-Pritchard, 1980, pp.20–21
  2. ↑ Colin Lyas, 'Rignano, Eugenio', in Stuart C. Brown et al, eds., Biographical dictionary of twentieth-century philosophy, 1996, p.668

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