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The Analysis of Mind

by Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)

16 chapters, about 72,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. MUIRHEAD LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY 200 words
2. PREFACE 300 words
3. LECTURE I. RECENT CRITICISMS OF "CONSCIOUSNESS" 6,800 words
4. LECTURE II. INSTINCT AND HABIT 3,100 words
5. LECTURE III. DESIRE AND FEELING 7,300 words
6. LECTURE V. PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL CAUSAL LAWS 3,100 words
7. LECTURE VI. INTROSPECTION 4,600 words
8. LECTURE VII. THE DEFINITION OF PERCEPTION 3,500 words
9. LECTURE VIII. SENSATIONS AND IMAGES 5,400 words
10. LECTURE IX. MEMORY 7,800 words
11. LECTURE X. WORDS AND MEANING 5,600 words
12. LECTURE XI. GENERAL IDEAS AND THOUGHT 4,700 words
13. LECTURE XII. BELIEF 5,700 words
14. LECTURE XIII. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD 6,900 words
15. LECTURE XIV. EMOTIONS AND WILL 1,500 words
16. LECTURE XV. CHARACTERISTICS OF MENTAL PHENOMENA 5,500 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Animal
• Aphasia
• Association (psychology)
• Belief
• Biography
• Certainty
• Desire
• Duality (mathematics)
• Emotion
• Evidence
• Face
• Face (sociological concept)
• Folk psychology
• Instinct
• Introspection
• Memory
• Mental event
• Napoleon
• Past
• Philosophy of mind
• Phobia
• Physiology
• Proposition
• Repetition compulsion
• Scientific demonstration
• Self-evidence
• Similarity (philosophy)
• Truth
• View (Buddhism)

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