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ISBN 10:       0486203816
ISBN 13: 978-0486203812
Author:         William James

“For the psychologist, standard reading, to all readers, a classic of interpretation.” — Psychiatric Quarterly
This is the first inexpensive edition of the complete Long Course in Principles of Psychology, one of the great classics of modern Western literature and science and the source of the ripest thoughts of America’s most important philosopher. As such, it should not be confused with the many abridgements that omit key sections.
The book presents lucid descriptions of human mental activity, with detailed considerations of the stream of thought, consciousness, time perception, memory, imagination, emotions, reason, abnormal phenomena, and similar topics. In its course it takes into account the work of Berkeley, Binet, Bradley, Darwin, Descartes, Fechner, Galton, Green, Helmholtz, Herbart, Hume, Janet, Kant, Lange, Lotze, Locke, Mill, Royce, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, Wundt, and scores of others. It examines contrasting interpretations of mental phenomena, treating introspective analysis, philosophical interpretations, and experimental research.
Although the book originally appeared nearly 75 years ago, it remains unsurpassed today as a brilliantly written survey of William James’ timeless view of psychology.
“Rereading James brings a sense of perspective and even a little humility to our regard for more modern achievements.” — Journal of Consulting Psychology

The Principles of Psychology 1st Table of contents:

CHAPTER I: THE SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGY

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CHAPTER II: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN

• The Frog’s Nerve-Centres
• General Notion of Hemispheres
• The Education of the Hemispheres
• The Phrenological Conception
• The Localization of Functions in the Hemispheres
• Man’s Consciousness Limited to the Hemispheres
• The Restitution of Function
• Final Correction of the Meynert Scheme
• Conclusion

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CHAPTER III: ON SOME GENERAL CONDITIONS OF BRAIN-ACTIVITY

• Reaction-Time
• Cerebral Blood-Supply
• Cerebral Thermometry

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CHAPTER IV: HABIT

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CHAPTER V: THE AUTOMATON-THEORY

• Reasons for the Theory
• Reasons Against the Theory

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CHAPTER VI: THE MIND-STUFF THEORY

• Evolutionary Psychology Demands a Mind-Dust
• Some Alleged Proofs that Mind-Dust Exists
• Refutation of these Proofs
• Self-Compounding of Mental Facts is Inadmissible
• Can States of Mind Be Unconscious?
• Difficulty of Stating the Connection Between Mind and Brain
• The Material-Monad Theory
• The Soul-Theory

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CHAPTER VII: THE METHODS AND SNARES OF PSYCHOLOGY

• Psychology is a Natural Science
• The Methods of Investigation
• The Sources of Error in Psychology

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CHAPTER VIII: THE RELATIONS OF MINDS TO OTHER THINGS

• Time-Relations
• Relations of Consciousness to Space
• The Relations of Minds to Other Objects

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CHAPTER IX: THE STREAM OF THOUGHT

• Five Characters in Thought

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CHAPTER X: THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SELF

• The Empirical Self or Me
• Rivalry and Conflict of the Different Selves
• What Self is Loved in ‘Self-Love’?
• The Pure Ego
• The Pure Self or Inner Principle of Personal Unity
• The Transcendentalist Theory
• The Mutations of the Self
• Summary

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CHAPTER XI: ATTENTION

• To How Many Things Can We Attend at Once?
• The Varieties of Attention
• The Effects of Attention
• The Intimate Nature of the Attentive Process
• Is Voluntary Attention a Resultant or a Force?
• Inattention

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CHAPTER XII: CONCEPTION

• The Sense of Sameness
• Conception Defined
• Conceptions are Unchangeable
• ‘Abstract’ Ideas
• Universals

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CHAPTER XIII: DISCRIMINATION AND COMPARISON

• The Principle of Mediate Comparison
• Are All Differences Differences of Composition?
• The Conditions of Discrimination
• The Process of Analysis
• The Process of Abstraction
• The Improvement of Discrimination by Practice
• Practical Interests Limit Discrimination
• Reaction-Time After Discrimination
• The Perception of Likeness
• The Magnitude of Differences
• The Measure of Discriminative Sensibility

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CHAPTER XIV: ASSOCIATION

• The Rapidity of Association
• The Law of Contiguity
• The Elementary Law of Association
• Ordinary or Mixed Association
• Association by Similarity
• Association in Voluntary Thought
• Similarity No Elementary Law
• The History of Opinion Concerning Association

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CHAPTER XV: THE PERCEPTION OF TIME

• The Sensible Present has Duration
• Accuracy of Our Estimate of Short Durations
• We Have No Sense for Empty Time
• The Feeling of Past Time is a Present Feeling
• To What Cerebral Process is the Sense of Time Due?

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CHAPTER XVI: MEMORY

• Primary Memory
• Analysis of the Phenomenon of Memory
• Memory’s Causes
• The Conditions of Goodness in Memory
• One’s Native Retentiveness is Unchangeable
• Exact Measurements of Memory
• Forgetting

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