The Principles Of Psychology volume 2

About this eBook

Author

James, William, 1842-1910

Title

The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2)

Credits

Produced by Clare Graham & Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (Images generously made available by the Hathi Trust)

Language

English

LoC Class

BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Subject

Psychology

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57634

Release Date

August 4, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY — BY
2. 2.WILLIAM JAMES — PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY — IN TWO VOLUMES — VOL II. — CONTENTS. — PSYCHOLOGY. — SENSATION. — SENSATION AND PERCEPTION DISTINGUISHED. — THE COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF SENSATION. — "THE RELATIVITY OF KNOWLEDGE." — THE LAW OF CONTRAST. — THE 'ECCENTRIC PROJECTION' OF SENSATIONS. — IMAGINATION. — OUR IMAGES ARE USUALLY VAGUE. — Are Vague Images 'Abstract Ideas'? — INDIVIDUALS DIFFER IN IMAGINATION. — THE NEURAL PROCESS WHICH UNDERLIES IMAGINATION? — THE PERCEPTION OF 'THINGS.' — PERCEPTION AND SENSATION COMPARED. — PERCEPTION IS OF DEFINITE AND PROBABLE THINGS. — ILLUSIONS. — Illusions of the First Type. — Illusions of the Second Type. — THE PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS IN PERCEPTION. — 'APPERCEPTION.' — IS PERCEPTION UNCONSCIOUS INFERENCE? — HALLUCINATIONS. — THE NEURAL PROCESS IN HALLUCINATION. — 'PERCEPTION-TIME.' — THE PERCEPTION OF SPACE. [140] — THE FEELING OF CRUDE EXTENSITY. — THE PERCEPTION OF SPATIAL ORDER. — Space-relations. — The Meaning of Localization. — 'Local Signs.' — THE CONSTRUCTION OF 'REAL' SPACE. — 1. The Subdivision of the Original Sense-spaces. — The Sensation of Motion over Surfaces. — 2. The Measurement of the sense-spaces against each other. — 3. The Summation of the Sense-spaces. — FEELINGS IN JOINTS AND FEELINGS IN MUSCLES. — 1. Feelings of Movement in Joints. — 2. Feelings of Muscular Contraction. — HOW THE BLIND PERCEIVE SPACE. — VISUAL SPACE. — The Third Dimension. — Helmholtz and Reid on Sensations . — The Theory of Identical Points . — The Projection-Theory . — Ambiguity of Retinal Impressions . — Ambiguous Import of Eye-movements . — The Choice of the Visual Reality. — Sensations which we Ignore. — Sensations which seem Suppressed. — GENERAL SUMMARY. — HISTORICAL. — THE PERCEPTION OF REALITY. — BELIEF. — THE VARIOUS ORDERS OF REALITY. — THE MANY WORLDS. — THE WORLD OF 'PRACTICAL REALITIES.' — THE PARAMOUNT REALITY OF SENSATIONS. — THE INFLUENCE OF EMOTION AND ACTIVE IMPULSE ON BELIEF. — BELIEF IN OBJECTS OF THEORY. — DOUBT. — RELATIONS OF BELIEF AND WILL. — REASONING. — 'RECEPTS.' — IN REASONING, WE PICK OUT ESSENTIAL QUALITIES. — WHAT IS MEANT BY A MODE OF CONCEIVING. — WHAT IS INVOLVED IN GENERAL PROPOSITIONS. — THUS, THERE ARE TWO GREAT POINTS IN REASONING: — Sagacity; or the Perception of the Essence. — The Help given by Association by Similarity. — THE INTELLECTUAL CONTRAST BETWEEN BRUTE AND MAN. — DIFFERENT ORDERS OF HUMAN GENIUS. — THE PRODUCTION OF MOVEMENT. — INSTINCT. — INSTINCTS NOT ALWAYS BLIND OR INVARIABLE. — TWO PRINCIPLES OF NON-UNIFORMITY IN INSTINCTS. — SPECIAL HUMAN INSTINCTS. — THE EMOTIONS. — EMOTION FOLLOWS UPON THE BODILY EXPRESSION IN THE COARSER EMOTIONS AT LEAST. — DIFFICULTY OF TESTING THE THEORY EXPERIMENTALLY. — Objections Considered . — THE SUBTLER EMOTIONS. — NO SPECIAL BRAIN-CENTRES FOR EMOTION. — EMOTIONAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS. — THE GENESIS OF THE VARIOUS EMOTIONS. — WILL. — IDEO-MOTOR ACTION. — ACTION AFTER DELIBERATION. — FIVE TYPES OF DECISION. — THE FEELING OF EFFORT. — THE EXPLOSIVE WILL. — THE OBSTRUCTED WILL. — PLEASURE AND PAIN AS SPRINGS OF ACTION. — WILL IS A RELATION BETWEEN THE MIND AND ITS 'IDEAS.' — THE QUESTION OF 'FREE-WILL.' — THE EDUCATION OF THE WILL. — HYPNOTISM. — MODES OF OPERATING, AND SUSCEPTIBILITY. — THEORIES ABOUT THE HYPNOTIC STATE. — THE SYMPTOMS OF THE TRANCE. — NECESSARY TRUTHS AND THE EFFECTS OF EXPERIENCE. — WHAT IS MEANT BY EXPERIENCE? — TWO MODES OF ORIGIN OF BRAIN STRUCTURE. — THE GENESIS OF THE ELEMENTARY MENTAL CATEGORIES. — THE GENESIS OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES. — THE GENESIS OF THE PURE SCIENCES. — SERIES OF EVEN DIFFERENCE AND MEDIATE COMPARISON. — CLASSIFICATORY SERIES. — THE LOGIC-SERIES. — MATHEMATICAL RELATIONS. — CONSCIOUSNESS OF SERIES IS THE BASIS OF RATIONALITY. — METAPHYSICAL AXIOMS. — ÆSTHETIC AND MORAL PRINCIPLES. — SUMMARY OF WHAT PRECEDES. — THE ORIGIN OF INSTINCTS. — THE END. — INDEX.

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