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The historical imagination of Christopher Dawson
No full textChristopher Dawson (1889-1970) was one of his generation's most
important historians and religious thinkers, and was a significant
influence on many contemporaries including T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis,
and Russell Kirk. This dissertation is a study of his most
fundamental ideas concerning history and culture.
Chapter one examines Dawson’s sociological view of history.
Convinced that history was more than a scientific enterprise, he
believed that the true historian is one who reaches beyond the
material world to understand the essence of history’s dynamics. In
this way, the world can be conceptualized as a united whole,
separated by regional differences as a result of environment, race,
material, psychological, and religious factors. Dawson believed
that the political histories of the past several centuries failed to
grasp the undercurrents of historical change, and that the best way
to understand the past is to appreciate culture as an expression of
primeval religious traditions.
Chapter two treats Dawson’s understanding of progress. Dawson
was convinced that progress had become the “working-religion” of our
age. This secular faith, founded on scientific rationalism, first
pledged to fix the material failures of Western culture, but
unwittingly eroded its faith in God, and eventually, its moral
fiber. Dawson believed that true progress was progress of the soul
in its ordering toward the Creator.
Chapter three is a study of Dawson’s Christian, and more
specifically, his Catholic beliefs. Informed by religion, his
historical and cultural visions are not dogmatic, nor are they
polemical. He conceived of history as the unfolding of a divine
economy in the temporal world. Although Dawson is a proponent of
Roman Catholicism, his scholarship is an objective treatment of
history shaped by an undisguised, Christian worldview.
Additionally, the appendix is an introduction to Dawson’s life
and the circumstances surrounding his conversion to Roman
Catholicism. Particular attention is paid to the development of his
moral and historical imagination — both of which became intertwined to
form the basis of all of his scholarship
Dawson, R J, NX36404
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Dawson, R, QX12285
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Dawson, A R, QX14028
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Dawson, J R, VX69083
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Dawson, R G, 412245
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Dawson, R P, WX2312
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Dawson, H R, NX7621
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Dawson, Reuben K. - An inaugural dissertation on rubeola
No full textHandwritten inaugural dissertation on rubeola by R. K. Dawson, of Tennessee.Inaugural dissertation; no. 384
Network responses and training sets for Dawson/Gupta paper
No full textThe directories included in the zip file provide the training files and the results for the PLOS ONE manuscript “Probability matching in perceptrons: Effects of conditional dependence and linear nonseparability” by Michael Dawson and Maya Gupta.
The responses of the various networks in the two simulations that are reported are given in the two Excel spreadsheets. Each spreadsheet provides details about the training patterns, the likelihood of each pattern type being rewarded in a training set, and the responses of networks to patterns after training in separate worksheets. Comments are provided on each worksheet to explain the numbers that it contains.
The other two directories provide the raw training sets used in each simulation; there are 5 for Simulation 1 and there are 20 for Simulation 2. To be run with the software they need the .net extension; however they are all simply text files.
The simulations were conducted using the Rosenblatt program, which implements gradient descent training of perceptrons. Detailed descriptions of the mathematics of this program, and accounts of using the software, have been previously published (Dawson, 2004, 2005). The program itself is available as freeware from this location:
http://www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/Software/Rosenblatt/index.html
References
Dawson, M. R. W. (2004). Minds And Machines: Connectionism And Psychological Modeling. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
Dawson, M. R. W. (2005). Connectionism : A Hands-on Approach (1st ed.). Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub
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