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The Principles of Psychology

by William James

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Psychology
  3. 3Chapter II — The Functions of the Brain
  4. 4The Frog’s Nerve-Centres
  5. 5General Notion of Hemispheres
  6. 6The Education of the Hemispheres
  7. 7The Phrenological Conception
  8. 8The Localization of Functions in the Hemispheres
  9. 9Sight
  10. 10Hearing
  11. 11Smell
  12. 12Taste — Touch
  13. 13Man’s Consciousness Limited to the Hemispheres
  14. 14The Restitution of Function
  15. 15Final Correction of the Meynert Scheme
  16. 16Conclusion
  17. 17Chapter III — On Some General Conditions of Brain-Activity
  18. 18The Summation of Stimuli
  19. 19Reaction-Time
  20. 20Cerebral Blood-Supply
  21. 21Cerebral Thermometry
  22. 22Phosphorus and Thought
  23. 23Chapter IV — Habit
  24. 24Chapter V — The Automaton-Theory
  25. 25Reasons for the Theory
  26. 26Reasons Against the Theory
  27. 27Chapter VI — The Mind-Stuff Theory
  28. 28Evolutionary Psychology Demands a Mind-Dust
  29. 29Some Alleged Proofs That Mind-Dust Exists
  30. 30Insufficiency of These Proofs
  31. 31Self-Compounding of Mental Facts Is Inadmissible
  32. 32Can States of Mind Be Unconscious?
  33. 33Do Unconscious Mental States Exist?
  34. 34Difficulty of Stating the Connection Between Mind and Brain
  35. 35The Material-Monad Theory
  36. 36The Soul-Theory
  37. 37Chapter VII — The Methods and Snares of Psychology
  38. 38Psychology Is a Natural Science
  39. 39The Methods of Investigation
  40. 40The Sources of Error in Psychology
  41. 41Chapter VIII — The Relations of Minds to Other Things
  42. 42Time-Relations
  43. 43Are We Ever Wholly Unconscious?
  44. 44‘Unconsciousness’ in Hysterics
  45. 45Relations of Consciousness to Space
  46. 46The Relations of Minds to Other Objects
  47. 47Chapter IX — The Stream of Thought
  48. 48Five Characters in Thought
  49. 491 | Thought Tends to Personal Form
  50. 502 | Thought Is in Constant Change
  51. 513 | Within Each Personal Consciousness, Thought Is Sensibly Continuous
  52. 52Feelings of Tendency
  53. 534 — Human Thought Appears to Deal With Objects Independent of Itsel…
  54. 54Chapter X — The Consciousness of Self
  55. 55The Empirical Self or Me
  56. 562 — Self-Feeling
  57. 573 — Self-Seeking and Self-Preservation
  58. 58Rivalry and Conflict of the Different Selves
  59. 59What Self Is Loved in ‘Self-Love’?
  60. 60The Pure Ego
  61. 61The Sense of Personal Identity
  62. 62The Pure Self or Inner Principle of Personal Unity
  63. 63The Theory of the Soul
  64. 64The Associationist Theory
  65. 65The Transcendentalist Theory
  66. 66Certain Vicissitudes in the Me Demand Our Notice
  67. 67The Mutations of the Self
  68. 68Summary
  69. 69Chapter XI — Attention
  70. 70To How Many Things Can We Attend at Once?
  71. 71The Varieties of Attention
  72. 72The Effects of Attention
  73. 73The Intimate Nature of the Attentive Process
  74. 74Is Voluntary Attention a Resultant or a Force?
  75. 75Inattention
  76. 76Chapter XII — Conception
  77. 77Conception Defined
  78. 78Conceptions Are Unchangeable
  79. 79‘Abstract’ Ideas
  80. 80Universals
  81. 81Chapter XIII — Discrimination and Comparison
  82. 82The Principle of Mediate Comparison
  83. 83Are All Differences Differences of Composition?
  84. 84The Conditions of Discrimination
  85. 85The Process of Analysis
  86. 86The Process of Abstraction
  87. 87The Improvement of Discrimination by Practice
  88. 88Practical Interests Limit Discrimination
  89. 89Reaction-Time After Discrimination
  90. 90The Perception of Likeness
  91. 91The Magnitude of Differences
  92. 92The Measure of Discriminative Sensibility
  93. 93Theoretic Interpretation of Weber’s Law
  94. 94Weber’s Law Is Probably Purely Physiological
  95. 95Chapter XIV — Association
  96. 96The Rapidity of Association
  97. 97The Law of Contiguity
  98. 98The Elementary Law of Association
  99. 99Impartial Redintegration
  100. 100Ordinary or Mixed Association
  101. 101Association by Similarity
  102. 102Association in Voluntary Thought
  103. 103Similarity No Elementary Law
  104. 104The History of Opinion Concerning Association
  105. 105Chapter XV — The Perception of Time
  106. 106The Sensible Present Has Duration
  107. 107Accuracy of Our Estimate of Short Durations
  108. 108We Have No Sense for Empty Time
  109. 109The Feeling of Past Time Is a Present Feeling
  110. 110To What Cerebral Process Is the Sense of Time Due?
  111. 111Chapter XVI — Memory
  112. 112Primary Memory
  113. 113Analysis of the Phenomenon of Memory
  114. 114Memory’s Causes
  115. 115The Conditions of Goodness in Memory
  116. 116One’s Native Retentiveness Is Unchangeable
  117. 117Exact Measurements of Memory
  118. 118Forgetting

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