The Mind and the Brain: Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le CorpsBinet, Alfred
Philosophy
The Mind and the Brain: Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps
Binet, Alfred
Mind and body
Perception and ideation cannot be separated--Perception constituted by
addition of image to sensation--Hallucinations--Objections anticipated
and answered
CHAPTER IV
DEFINITION OF THE EMOTIONS
Contrary opinions as to nature of emotions--Emotion a phenomenon _sui
generis_--Intellectualist theory of emotion supported by Lange and
James--Is emotion only a perception? Is effort?--Question left
unanswered
CHAPTER V
DEFINITION OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS--THE RELATION SUBJECT-OBJECT
Can thoughts be divided into subject and object?--This division cannot
apply to the consciousness--Subject of cognition itself an
object--James' opinion examined--Opinion that subject is spiritual
substance and consciousness its faculty refuted
CHAPTER VI
DEFINITION OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS--CATEGORIES OF THE UNDERSTANDING
Principle of relativity doubted--Tables of categories: Aristotle, Kant,
and Renouvier--Kantian idealism--Phenomenism of Berkeley examined and
rejected--Argument of _a priorists_--The intelligence only an inactive
consciousness--Huxley's epiphenomenal consciousness--Is the
consciousness necessary?--Impossibility of answering this question
CHAPTER VII
DEFINITION OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS--THE SEPARABILITY OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS
FROM ITS OBJECT--DISCUSSION OF IDEALISM
Can the consciousness be separated from its object?--Idealists
consider the object a modality of the consciousness and thus
inseparable, from it--Futility of this doctrine--Object can exist
without consciousness
CHAPTER VIII
DEFINITION OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS--THE SEPARATION OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS
FROM ITS OBJECT--THE UNCONSCIOUS
Can ideas exist without consciousness?--No consciousness without an
object--Can the consciousness die?--Enfeeblement of consciousness how
accounted for--Doubling of consciousness in hysterics--Relations of
physiological phenomena to consciousness--Consciousness cannot become
unconscious and yet exist
CHAPTER IX
DEFINITIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY
Difficulty of defining psychology--Definition by substance--Psychology not
the science of the soul--Definition by enumeration: its error--Definition
by method contradicts idea of consciousness--Externospection and
introspection sometimes confused--Definition by content--Facts cannot be
divided into those of consciousness and of unconsciousness--Descartes'
definition of psychology insufficient--"Within and without" simile
unanalogous--Definition by point of view--Inconsistencies of Ebbinghaus'
contention--W. James' teleological theory--Definition by the peculiar
nature of mental laws only one possible: why?
BOOK III
THE UNION OF THE SOUL AND THE BODY
CHAPTER I
THE MIND HAS AN INCOMPLETE LIFE
Problem of union of mind and body stated--Axiom of heterogeneity must
be rejected--Phenomena of consciousness incomplete--Aristotle's
_relatum_ and _correlatum_ applied to the terms mind and matter
CHAPTER II
SPIRITUALISM AND IDEALISM
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