The Principles of Psychology vol 1,2

William James, George A. Miller9780674706255, 0674706250

The publication of William James’s acknowledged masterpiece marked a turning point in the development of psychology as a science in America. This new paperback edition of The Principles Psychology, prepared according to modern standards of textual scholarship. presents the complete authoritative text, all of the changes James made in the eight printings he supervised, as well as the revisions he added to his own copy. It includes footnotes, more than eighty drawings, and James’s index.

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Table of contents :
CHAPTER I The Scope of Psychology……Page 2
CHAPTER II The Functions of the Brain……Page 8
CHAPTER III On Some General Conditions of Brain-Activity…….Page 49
CHAPTER IV Habit……Page 63
CHAPTER V The Automaton-Theory……Page 80
CHAPTER VI The Mind-Stuff Theory……Page 90
CHAPTER VII The Methods and Snares of Psychology……Page 115
CHAPTER VIII. The Relations Of Minds To Other Things…….Page 124
CHAPTER IX The Stream of Thought……Page 139
CHAPTER X The Consciousness of Self……Page 182
CHAPTER XI Attention……Page 255
CHAPTER XII Conception. The Sense of Sameness……Page 295
CHAPTER XIII Discrimination and Comparison……Page 311
CHAPTER XIV Association……Page 357
CHAPTER XV The Perception of Time……Page 394
CHAPTER XVI Memory……Page 422
CHAPTER XVII Sensation……Page 460
CHAPTER XVIII Imagination……Page 488
CHAPTER XIX The Perception of Things……Page 513
CHAPTER XX The Perception of Space……Page 552
CHAPTER XXI The Perception of Reality……Page 655
CHAPTER XXII “Reasoning”……Page 684
CHAPTER XXIII The Production of Movement……Page 714
CHAPTER XXIV Instinct……Page 722
CHAPTER XXV The Emotions……Page 759
CHAPTER XXVI Will……Page 788
CHAPTER XXVII Hypnotism……Page 857
CHAPTER XXVIII Necessary Truths and The Effects of Experience……Page 870