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Emersonian Sensibilities, Holmes’s better self perhaps is found in Emerson and Dewey: a poet who could dream of what might be possible grounded in a realism of a frail social evolution essential for an adaptive brain.
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Schulkin, J. (2019). Emersonian Sensibilities. In: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism and Neuroscience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23100-2_6
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