The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2)

by William James

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Contents

1. Sensation
2. Sensation and Perception Distinguished
3. The Cognitive Function of Sensation
4. "The Relativity of Knowledge."
5. The Law of Contrast
6. The 'Eccentric Projection' of Sensations
7. Imagination
8. Our Images Are Usually Vague
9. Are Vague Images 'Abstract Ideas'?
10. Individuals Differ in Imagination
11. The Neural Process Which Underlies Imagination?
12. Perception and Sensation Compared
13. Perception Is of Definite and Probable Things
14. Illusions
15. Illusions of the First Type
16. Illusions of the Second Type
17. The Physiological Process in Perception
18. 'Apperception.'
19. Is Perception Unconscious Inference?
20. Hallucinations
21. The Neural Process in Hallucination
22. 'Perception-Time.'
23. The Feeling of Crude Extensity
24. The Perception of Spatial Order
25. Space-relations
26. The Meaning of Localization
27. 'Local Signs.'
28. The Construction of 'Real' Space
29. 1. The Subdivision of the Original Sense-spaces
30. The Sensation of Motion over Surfaces
31. 2. The Measurement of the sense-spaces against each other
32. 3. The Summation of the Sense-spaces
33. 1. Feelings of Movement in Joints
34. 2. Feelings of Muscular Contraction
35. How the Blind Perceive Space
36. Visual Space
37. The Third Dimension
38. Helmholtz and Reid on Sensations
39. The Theory of Identical Points
40. The Projection-Theory
41. Ambiguity of Retinal Impressions
42. Ambiguous Import of Eye-movements
43. The Choice of the Visual Reality
44. Sensations which we Ignore
45. Sensations which seem Suppressed
46. General Summary
47. Historical
48. Belief
49. The Various Orders of Reality
50. The Many Worlds
51. The World of 'Practical Realities.'
52. The Paramount Reality of Sensations
53. The Influence of Emotion and Active Impulse on Belief
54. Belief in Objects of Theory
55. Doubt
56. Relations of Belief and Will
57. Reasoning
58. 'Recepts.'
59. In Reasoning, We Pick Out Essential Qualities
60. What Is Meant by a Mode of Conceiving
61. What Is Involved in General Propositions
62. Thus, There Are Two Great Points in Reasoning
63. Sagacity; or the Perception of the Essence
64. The Help given by Association by Similarity
65. The Intellectual Contrast Between Brute and Man
66. Different Orders of Human Genius
67. The Production of Movement
68. Instinct
69. Instincts Not Always Blind or Invariable
70. Two Principles of Non-Uniformity in Instincts
71. Special Human Instincts
72. The Emotions
73. Emotion Follows Upon the Bodily Expression in the Coarser Emotions at Least
74. Difficulty of Testing the Theory Experimentally
75. Objections Considered
76. The Subtler Emotions
77. No Special Brain-Centres for Emotion
78. Emotional Differences Between Individuals
79. The Genesis of the Various Emotions
80. Will
81. Ideo-Motor Action
82. Action After Deliberation
83. Five Types of Decision
84. The Feeling of Effort
85. The Explosive Will
86. The Obstructed Will
87. Pleasure and Pain as Springs of Action
88. Will Is a Relation Between the Mind and Its 'Ideas.'
89. The Question of 'Free-Will.'
90. The Education of the Will
91. Modes of Operating, and Susceptibility
92. Theories About the Hypnotic State
93. The Symptoms of the Trance
94. Necessary Truths and the Effects of Experience
95. What Is Meant by Experience?
96. Two Modes of Origin of Brain Structure
97. The Genesis of the Elementary Mental Categories
98. The Genesis of the Natural Sciences
99. The Genesis of the Pure Sciences
100. Series of Even Difference and Mediate Comparison
101. Classificatory Series
102. The Logic-Series
103. Mathematical Relations
104. Consciousness of Series Is the Basis of Rationality
105. Metaphysical Axioms
106. Æsthetic and Moral Principles
107. Summary of What Precedes
108. The Origin of Instincts

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