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The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

by William James (1842–1910)

100 chapters, about 215,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE. 1,700 words
2. THE SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGY. 3,300 words
3. THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN. 800 words
4. THE FROG'S NERVE-CENTRES. 1,900 words
5. GENERAL NOTION OF HEMISPHERES. 1,400 words
6. THE EDUCATION OF THE HEMISPHERES. 1,000 words
7. THE PHRENOLOGICAL CONCEPTION. 1,200 words
8. THE LOCALIZATION OF FUNCTIONS IN THE HEMISPHERES. 8,500 words
9. MAN'S CONSCIOUSNESS LIMITED TO THE HEMISPHERES. 400 words
10. THE RESTITUTION OF FUNCTION. 1,800 words
11. FINAL CORRECTION OF THE MEYNERT SCHEME. 2,000 words
12. CONCLUSION. 700 words
13. THE SUMMATION OF STIMULI 900 words
14. REACTION-TIME. 3,100 words
15. CEREBRAL BLOOD-SUPPLY. 600 words
16. CEREBRAL THERMOMETRY. 1,100 words
17. FOOTNOTES: 300 words
18. HABIT. 8,100 words
19. THE AUTOMATON-THEORY. 2,200 words
20. REASONS FOR THE THEORY. 1,800 words
21. REASONS AGAINST THE THEORY. 2,100 words
22. THE MIND-STUFF THEORY. 300 words
23. EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY DEMANDS A MIND-DUST. 600 words
24. SOME ALLEGED PROOFS THAT MIND-DUST EXISTS. 1,600 words
25. INSUFFICIENCY OF THESE PROOFS. 1,100 words
26. SELF-COMPOUNDING OF MENTAL FACTS IS INADMISSIBLE. 1,200 words
27. CAN STATES OF MIND BE UNCONSCIOUS? 200 words
28. DO UNCONSCIOUS MENTAL STATES EXIST? 4,600 words
29. THE MATERIAL-MONAD THEORY. 600 words
30. THE SOUL-THEORY. 700 words
31. FOOTNOTES: 1,400 words
32. PSYCHOLOGY IS A NATURAL SCIENCE. 600 words
33. THE METHODS OF INVESTIGATION. 2,300 words
34. THE SOURCES OF ERROR IN PSYCHOLOGY. 1,200 words
35. TIME-RELATIONS. 4,500 words
36. RELATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS TO SPACE. 700 words
37. THE RELATIONS OF MINDS TO OTHER OBJECTS 2,100 words
38. THE STREAM OF THOUGHT. 300 words
39. FIVE CHARACTERS IN THOUGHT. 21,000 words
40. FOOTNOTES: 1,400 words
41. THE EMPIRICAL SELF OR ME. 4,200 words
42. 2. SELF-FEELING. 400 words
43. 3. SELF-SEEKING AND SELF-PRESERVATION. 400 words
44. RIVALRY AND CONFLICT OF THE DIFFERENT SELVES. 2,900 words
45. WHAT SELF IS LOVED IN 'SELF-LOVE'? 3,900 words
46. THE PURE EGO. 9,300 words
47. THE TRANSCENDENTALIST THEORY. 2,300 words
48. THE MUTATIONS OF THE SELF 9,700 words
49. SUMMARY. 500 words
50. FOOTNOTES: 1,900 words
51. ATTENTION. 3,300 words
52. THE VARIETIES OF ATTENTION. 2,300 words
53. THE EFFECTS OF ATTENTION. 2,400 words
54. THE INTIMATE NATURE OF THE ATTENTIVE PROCESS. 3,100 words
55. IS VOLUNTARY ATTENTION A RESULTANT OR A FORCE? 2,000 words
56. INATTENTION. 1,300 words
57. FOOTNOTES: 700 words
58. THE SENSE OF SAMENESS. 600 words
59. CONCEPTION DEFINED. 800 words
60. CONCEPTIONS ARE UNCHANGEABLE. 1,500 words
61. 'ABSTRACT' IDEAS. 1,700 words
62. UNIVERSALS. 2,800 words
63. FOOTNOTES: 900 words
64. DISCRIMINATION AND COMPARISON. 2,400 words
65. THE PRINCIPLE OF MEDIATE COMPARISON. 500 words
66. ARE ALL DIFFERENCES DIFFERENCES OF COMPOSITION? 600 words
67. THE CONDITIONS OF DISCRIMINATION. 2,300 words
68. THE PROCESS OF ANALYSIS. 1,000 words
69. THE PROCESS OF ABSTRACTION. 1,200 words
70. THE IMPROVEMENT OF DISCRIMINATION BY PRACTICE. 2,000 words
71. PRACTICAL INTERESTS LIMIT DISCRIMINATION. 2,900 words
72. REACTION-TIME AFTER DISCRIMINATION. 1,400 words
73. THE PERCEPTION OF LIKENESS. 800 words
74. THE MAGNITUDE OF DIFFERENCES. 1,000 words
75. THE MEASURE OF DISCRIMINATIVE SENSIBILITY. 4,700 words
76. FOOTNOTES: 1,300 words
77. ASSOCIATION. 1,700 words
78. THE RAPIDITY OF ASSOCIATION. 1,000 words
79. THE LAW OF CONTIGUITY. 1,300 words
80. THE ELEMENTARY LAW OF ASSOCIATION. 2,000 words
81. ORDINARY OR MIXED ASSOCIATION. 2,200 words
82. ASSOCIATION BY SIMILARITY. 1,400 words
83. ASSOCIATION IN VOLUNTARY THOUGHT. 2,300 words
84. SIMILARITY NO ELEMENTARY LAW. 1,100 words
85. THE HISTORY OF OPINION CONCERNING ASSOCIATION 3,300 words
86. FOOTNOTES: 200 words
87. THE PERCEPTION OF TIME. 700 words
88. THE SENSIBLE PRESENT HAS DURATION. 600 words
89. ACCURACY OF OUR ESTIMATE OF SHORT DURATIONS. 2,100 words
90. WE HAVE NO SENSE FOR EMPTY TIME. 4,300 words
91. FOOTNOTES: 3,700 words
92. MEMORY. 300 words
93. PRIMARY MEMORY. 1,100 words
94. ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENON OF MEMORY. 1,100 words
95. MEMORY'S CAUSES. 2,300 words
96. THE CONDITIONS OF GOODNESS IN MEMORY. 1,300 words
97. ONE'S NATIVE RETENTIVENESS IS UNCHANGEABLE. 3,100 words
98. EXACT MEASUREMENTS OF MEMORY 600 words
99. FORGETTING. 3,400 words
100. FOOTNOTES: 1,600 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Abstraction
• Algebra
• Aphasia
• Association (psychology)
• Attention
• CD-ROM
• Cell (biology)
• Conformity
• Discrimination
• Fallacy
• Habit
• Immortality
• Meditation
• Memory
• Mental state
• Object (grammar)
• Past
• Personal identity
• Personality
• Phosphorus (morning star)
• Psychologist
• Psychology
• Psychosis
• Self
• Self-love
• Similarity (philosophy)
• Suicide
• Thought
• Thought (essay)
• Time

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