Robert Brown, Editor

 

Introduction by Robert Brown

 

DAVID HARTLEY/Introduction

SELECTIONS FROM Observations on Man, Part

Chapter 1 /THE GENERAL LAWS ACCORDING TO WHICH THE SENSATIONS AND MOTIONS ARE PERFORMED, AND OUR IDEAS GENERATED

Section I: The Doctrine of Vibrations, and Its Use for Explaining the Sensations

Section II: Of Ideas, Their Generation and Associations; and of the Agreement of the Doctrine of Vibrations with the Phaenomena of Ideas

Chapter III /CONTAINING A PARTICULAR APPLICATION OF THE

FOREGOING THEORY TO THF PHAENOMENA OF IDEAS, OR OF UNDERSTANDING, AFFECTION, MEMORY, AND IMAGINATION

Section I: Words, and the Ideas Associated with Them

Section II: Of Propositions, and the Nature of Assent

Section IV: Of Memory

Section V: Of Imagination, Reveries,. and Dreams

Conclusion /CONTAINING SOME REMARKS ON THE MECHANISM OF THE HUMAN MIND.

Bibliography

  

ABRAHAM TUCKER / Introduction

SELECTIONS FROM The Light of Nature Pursued

Chapter II / Action

            Chapter V / Motives

            Chapter VI / Satisfaction

Bibliography

  

THOMAS REID/Introduction

SELECTIONS FROM An Inquiry Into the Human Mind on Principles of Common Sense

Chapter V / OF TOUCH

Chapter VI / OF SEEING

SELECTIONS FROM Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

Essay II, Chapter III / HYPOTHESES CONCERNING THE NERVES AND BRAIN

Essay III, Chapter VII / THEORIES CONCERNING MEMORY
Essay IV, Chapter I / OF CONCEPTION, OR SIMPLE APPREHENSION IN GENERAL
Essay VI. Chapter V / THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF CONTINGENT TRUTHS

Bibliography

 

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY / Introduction

SELECTIONS FROM An Examination of Dr. Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind on                                           Principles of Common Sense

Section VI: MR. LOCKE'S DOCTRINE NOT SO FAVOURABLE TO

BERKELEY'S THEORY AS DR. REID'S

Section VII: A SOPHISM OF MR. HUME'S IN PURSUANCE OF

BERKELEY'S THEORY ADOPTED BY DR. REID

Bibliography

 

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY AND RICHARD PRICE / Introduction

SELECTIONS FROM A Free Discussion of the Doctrines of Materialism and                                                       Philosophical Necessity

Part II / OF THE HUMAN MIND

OF THE DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY

Bibliography

 

DUGALD STEWART / Introduction

SELECTIONS FROM Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Chapter I / FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF BELIEF

Chapter II / REASONING AND DEDUCTION

Chapter IV / LOGIC OF INDUCTION

Bibliography

 

THOMAS BROWN / Introduction

SELECTIONS FROM Observations on the Nature and Tendency of the Doctrine of Mr. Hume Concerning the Relation of Cause and Effect

• CAUSAL RELATION AND ITS ORIGIN IN EXPERIENCE
• ANTHROPOMORPHISM
• WILL AND DESIRE AS CAUSES
• CAUSE AS INVARIABLE SEQUENCE
• CAUSES AND SINGLE CONJUNCTIONS

SELECTIONS FROM Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Lecture VIII / ON HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY

Lecture XI / ON CONSCIOUSNESS

Lecture XXII / ON THE FEELINGS USUALLY ASCRIBED TO THE

            SENSE OF TOUCH——AND ANALYSIS OF THESE FEELINGS

Lecture XXV / ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SENSATION AND

PERCEPTION—AND BETWEEN THE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES OF MATTER

Lecture XXVII / HYPOTHESIS OF THE PERIPATETICS REGARDING

PERCEPTION

Lecture XXVIII / ON DR. REID'S SUPPOSED PROOF OF A MATERIAL WORLD——
ON VISION—AND ANALYSIS OF THE FEELINGS ASCRIBED TO IT

Lecture XLI / REDUCTION OF CERTAIN SUPPOSED FACULTIES

TO SIMPLE SUGGESTION

Lecture XLIII / REFUTATION OF HARTLEY'S THEORY OF ASSOCIATION

Bibliography

 

JAMES MILL / Introduction

SELECTIONS FROM Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind

Chapter IX / ABSTRACTION

Chapter XIV / NAMES REQUIRING EXPLANATION

Section H: Relative Terms

Section IV: Private Terms

Section V: Time

Chapter XXV / INTENTION

Bibliography

  

JAMES FREDERICK FERRIER / INTRODUCTION

SELECTIONS FROM Lectures on Greek Philosophy and Other Philosophical Remains

• BERKELEY AND IDEALISM
• MR BAILEY'S REPLY TO AN ARTICLE IN BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE
• A SPECULATION ON THE SENSES

Bibliography

INDEX