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The author offers a systematic introduction to central philosophical problems, opening with an account of doubt, the limits of knowledge, and the corrective relation between philosophy and science. He examines perception, learning, language, memory, and inference; analyzes physical theory, causation, and the relation between physics and perceptual experience; and turns to introspective topics such as imagery, imagination, consciousness, emotion, desire, will, and ethics. The work concludes by surveying major historical doctrines and addressing truth, the validity of inference, the relation of mind and matter, and humanity’s place in the universe.

INDEX

  • Æther or empty space, 107
  • Analogy, positive and negative, 271
  • Analysis of Sensations (Mach), 292
  • Animal Intelligence (Thorndike), 30
  • Animal learning, study of, 29 ff.
  • Thorndike’s laws of, 31 f.
  • learned reactions, 35 f.
  • A priori, causation not regarded as, 150
  • knowledge, 249 f., 265
  • probability, on Keynes’s theory, is, 274
  • logic, 296
  • Aristotle, 226
  • Association, principle of, 33 f., 48, 64, 180
  • Aston, Dr. F. W., 99
  • Atom, theory of the, 98 ff.
  • centre from which radiations travel, 157
  • philosophical consequences of modern study of the, 293
  • Attention, 205
  • Bacon, 80
  • Behaviourism, its view of man, 70 ff.
  • where it breaks down as a final philosophy, 129
  • dilemma put to, 133
  • its propositions as to thought examined, 169 ff.
  • and logic, 263
  • Behaviourism (Watson), 22, 31, 33
  • “Belief”, 254, 258 ff.
  • definition of, 261
  • Beliefs, defects in common, 3 ff.
  • Bergson, 71, 73, 198
  • Berkeley, 246 f.
  • Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage (Cannon), 218
  • Body, human, 25, 139
  • Bohr, Niels, his addition to the theory of atoms, 101 ff.
  • Bradley, monistic view of, 251
  • criticism of his argument against relations, 252
  • Braithwaite, R. B., 269
  • Brentano, 202
  • Broad, Dr., 188, 195, 282, 292
  • Buddha, 227
  • Butler, Samuel, 71
  • Cannon, 218
  • Cantor, Georg, 296
  • Casuistry, 225
  • Causation, as an a priori belief, 5, 150
  • notion of “necessary” sequence, 115
  • conception of, in science, 144 ff.
  • “Cause”, Kant’s category of, 248 f.
  • “Chrono-geography”, 283
  • Cognition, 61, 202 f., 217
  • Conation, 202
  • Conception, 203
  • “Conditioned reflexes”, 35
  • Confucius, 227
  • Conscience, 228
  • “Consciousness”, 60
  • William James’s views on, 210
  • two different meanings of the word, 210
  • criticism of common sense view of, 211 ff.
  • self, 214
  • William James’s views approved, 217
  • one kind of mnemic effect, 288
  • Continuity in nature, 108
  • Correlation, laws of, 117
  • Critique of Practical Reason (Kant), 249
  • Curiosity, 220
  • Dalton, 98
  • “Data”, 266 f., 276
  • De Broglie, 278
  • Decalogue, the, 227
  • Descartes, 9, 162 ff., 237 ff.
  • Desire, behaviourist view of, 90 f.
  • introspective view of, 221 ff.
  • Dewey, John, 292
  • Discontinuity in nature, 101, 106, 108
  • Dreams, 62, 127, 175, 176, 185, 189, 193
  • Dualism of mind and matter, 141, 239
  • Ductless glands, the, 218
  • Eddington, Professor, 273, 279
  • Education, 233
  • Einstein, 96, 116, 239, 242, 249
  • Electron, 99 ff., 118, 145
  • “Emergent” properties, 282
  • Emotions, essential physiological conditions of the, 118
  • subject to “Conditioning”, 119
  • generate irrational opinions, 120
  • Energy, radiation of, from matter into empty space, 145
  • propagation in empty space, 145
  • impact on matter in empty space, 146
  • Essays in Radical Empiricism (William James), 210, 292
  • Ethics, views of the ancients on, 227
  • theory that virtue consists in obedience to authority, 227 ff.
  • utilitarian theory of, 229 f.
  • the concept of “good”, 230
  • mainly social, 233
  • the supreme moral rule, 234 f.
  • Events, in physics, 110 f.
  • string of, 118 f.
  • “mental”, 141, 280 ff.
  • structure and mathematical laws of, 157
  • minimal, 277
  • matter constructed out of, 278
  • Experience, effects of, in a reaction to stimulus, 180 ff.
  • Familiarity, a stage in memory, 195 f.
  • Fear and Rage, 219
  • Feeling, as mental occurrence, 202
  • Forces, 111, 114, 117, 120 f.
  • Form, reaction to, 85 f.
  • Freudian “unconscious” the, 221
  • Galileo, 80
  • Generalisations, 271 f.
  • Geodesic, 112, 117
  • Geometry, as empirical as geography, 249 f.
  • Gestaltpsychologie, 37, 41, 43, 68, 247
  • Gravitation, 116 f., 145, 279
  • Griffith, Mr. Percy, 118
  • Habit-formation, 36
  • Habit-memory, 188, 196
  • Hegel, 227, 229, 251
  • Heisenberg, 96, 105, 278, 293
  • Heisenberg-Schrödinger theories of atomic structure, 243
  • Heraclitus, 251
  • Huc, Monsieur, 232
  • Hume, 180, 191, 247 f.
  • Images, visual, auditory and tactual, 176
  • behaviourist explanation of, 177 f.
  • difference between sensations and, 179 ff.
  • definition of, 184 f.
  • first stage in memory, 195
  • Imagination, analysis of, 190 ff.
  • essence of, 191
  • exceptional gifts of, 193
  • and belief, 193 f.
  • difference between memory and, 194
  • Induction problem of validity of, 14
  • as a practice, 80 f.
  • principle of, 268 f.
  • logical problem of, 269 ff.
  • Mr. Keynes’s examination of, 270 ff.
  • Inference, “physiological”, 13, 80 ff., 135
  • syllogistic, 79
  • inductive and mathematical, 83 ff.
  • “Innate ideas”, doctrine of, 245
  • Interval, space-like and time-like, 110 f.
  • Introspection, 10, 11, 12, 172 f., 201 ff.
  • James, William, 210, 223.
  • Kant, 80, 201, 239, 248, 296
  • Keynes Mr., on problems of induction, 269 ff.
  • Köhler, 37 ff.
  • Knowing, as mental occurrence, 202
  • Knowledge, as displayed in reactions to environment, 17 ff.
  • perceptual, 58 ff.
  • behaviourist view of, 88 ff.
  • difference between introspective and other, 215
  • a priori, 249 f.
  • limitations on, imposed by structure of language, 264 f.
  • Knowledge-reaction, 216, 282
  • Language, as a bodily habit, 43 ff.
  • psychological side of, 48
  • words in an ideal logical, 256 f.
  • and things, relation between, 264
  • Laws, causal, 144 ff.
  • evidence for, 147
  • universal characteristics of, 149
  • Learning, laws of, 23, 29 ff.
  • two ways of, 39
  • in infants, 41, 48
  • by increase of sensitivity, 95 f.
  • Leibniz, 239, 241 f.
  • Le Problème logique de l’induction (Jean Nicod), 269, 273
  • Locke, 244 ff.
  • Logic, 263, 296
  • “Logical atomism”, 248
  • Mach, 214, 292
  • Man, his relation to the Universe, 292, 295, 298 ff.
  • Materialism, as a philosophy, 159
  • Mathematical Theory of Relativity (Eddington), 283
  • Matter, the structure of the atom, 98 ff.
  • essence of, 146 f.
  • as conceived in modern physics, 157, 293
  • old view of, now untenable, 158 ff.
  • constructed out of events, 278
  • permanence of, only approximate, 279
  • possibly a structure of mental units, 290
  • Maxwell’s equations, 107, 145
  • Meaning, 52, 71, 82
  • Meinong, 202
  • Memory, behaviourist theory of, 71 ff.
  • its reference to the past, 188 ff.
  • feeling of pastness complex, 190
  • more fundamental than imagination, 190
  • vital difference between imagination and, 194
  • Dr. Broad’s view on reference to the past, 195
  • stages of, 195 ff.
  • immediate, 196 f.
  • true recollection, 197 ff.
  • trustworthiness of, 199
  • Memory and testimony, 5 ff.
  • Mendeleev, 99
  • “Mental” events, 114, 141 f., 280 f.
  • “Mental” occurrences, 201, 212
  • Mentality of Apes (Köhler), 37 ff., 62
  • Mill, J. S., his canons of induction, 269 f.
  • Mind and matter, conventional notions of, 141
  • distinction between, illusory, 142, 201
  • gap between, how filled in, 148
  • interaction between, 150
  • theory of “neutral monism”, 206 ff.
  • Cartesian dualism, 239
  • Leibniz’s theory of, 241
  • Mind, a cross-section in a stream of physical causation, 150
  • modern conception of, 280 ff.
  • emergent from events, 284
  • definitions of a, 285 ff.
  • Minkowski, 239
  • Mneme (Semon), 49
  • “Mnemic” effects, 49, 209, 295
  • “Mnemic” occurrences, 49, 180 f.
  • Monads, 241
  • Monists and pluralists, controversy between, 251 ff.
  • pluralism the view of science and common sense, 253
  • Moore, Dr. G. E., on notion of “good”, 230
  • “Moral issues”, 227
  • Motion, 119, 163
  • Mystics, 229, 264, 300
  • Names, 53
  • Necessity, anthropomorphic notion of, 115, 117
  • “Neutral monism”, theory of, 206 ff., 210, 282, 292
  • Newton, 242
  • Nisbet, R. H., on probability, 275
  • Object, what happens when we see an, 146 f.
  • Objective and subjective study, 30
  • Objectivity, 154 f., 169
  • Ogden and Richards, Messrs., 52
  • Parmenides, monistic view complete in, 251
  • Parry, Professor R. B., 292
  • Perception, difference between introspection and, 10 f.
  • a species of sensitivity, 59, 123
  • and inference, 65 f.
  • from objective standpoint, 66 ff.
  • of external event, analysis of, 123 ff.
  • element of subjectivity in, 130 ff.
  • and causal laws of physics, 145 ff.
  • its relation to the object causal and mathematical, 149
  • from introspective standpoint, 201 ff.
  • Perceptive knowledge, stages in act of, 18 ff.
  • Percepts, 133, 135, 137 ff.
  • Perspective, 152
  • Philosophy, the business of, 2, 236
  • Behaviourism as a, 129 ff.
  • Utilitarian, 229 f.
  • systems of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, 237 ff.
  • Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, 244 ff.
  • conscious purpose of, 299
  • Physics, modern, 97
  • causal laws in, 114 ff., 145 ff.
  • and perception, 123 ff.
  • spatial relations in, 137 ff.
  • our knowledge of, 151 ff.
  • only mathematical properties of, discoverable, 157
  • less deterministic than formerly, 239
  • and psychology, 282, 289
  • Pictures, as representations, 183
  • “Planck’s Constant”, 101 f.
  • Plato, 226
  • Poetry, 220
  • Probability, fundamental in science, 274
  • a priori on Mr. Keynes’s theory, 274
  • “frequency”, theory of, 274 f.
  • Psychology, 16, 172, 184
  • and physics, 282, 289
  • “Psychophysical parallelism”, 238
  • “Public good”, the, 230
  • Publicity, in the case of physical phenomena, 170
  • Quantum changes, 106
  • Radio-activity, 99, 103
  • Reactions, learned, 21, 33, 35, 36, 49, 81
  • Realism, naive, 175
  • Recognition, two forms of, 196
  • Recollection, true, 197 ff.
  • Relations, Bradley’s argument against, 252
  • cause of confusion about, 264
  • Relativity, theory of, “space-time” instead of one cosmic time and space, 108
  • some results of the, 108 ff.
  • “events” instead of bodies moving, 110
  • relations between “events”, 110 f.
  • no “forces” in the, 111
  • philosophical consequences of the, 293
  • “Right conduct”, 230
  • Rutherford, Sir E., 99, 101
  • Santayana, Mr., 230
  • Schiller, Dr. F. C. S., 79
  • Schrödinger, 98, 105, 278, 293, 294
  • Self-observation, 126, 161 ff.
  • basis of Descartes’s system, 162 ff.
  • Dr. Watson’s views, 167 ff.
  • gives knowledge not part of physics, 175
  • Semon, 49, 180
  • Sensation, difference between images and, 179
  • acoleuthic, 197
  • as opposed to perception, 204
  • Sensitivity, 59 f., 88, 123, 177
  • Sentences, 51, 54, 75, 255, 264
  • Sequence, laws of, 116
  • Shakespeare, 192
  • Sheffer, Dr. H. M., 282, 292
  • Sight, compared with touch, 156 f.
  • Size, sense of, 153
  • Socrates, 226
  • “Solipsism”, 291
  • Sommerfeld, 103
  • Space, one persistent, abolished in relativity theory, 108
  • physical and perceptual, 137 ff., 241 f., 294
  • Space-time, in theory of relativity, 108 ff.
  • structure of, 145
  • point-instant in, 278
  • “Specious present”, 195, 197
  • Spinoza, 238, 251
  • Stars and Atoms (Eddington), 279
  • “Statement”, definition of a, 260
  • Subjectivity, 129, 133, 135, 154 f.
  • Substance, 5, 242 ff., 293
  • Syllogism, the, 80
  • Syntax, influence of, on philosophy, 243
  • connection between laws of physics and laws of, 263
  • Talking without thinking, 190
  • Tendency, quantitative laws of, 144
  • Testimony, 11 f., 170
  • The Analysis of Matter (Bertrand Russell), 278
  • The Meaning of Meaning (Ogden and Richards), 52
  • The Mind and Its Place in Nature (Dr. Broad), 76, 188, 282
  • Thorndike’s “provisional laws”, 31 ff.
  • Thought, 163 ff., 174, 240, 263
  • Time, not cosmic, 108 ff., 158
  • Touch, compared with sight, 156
  • Treatise on Probability (Keynes), 269 ff.
  • Truth, 94, 261 f.
  • Truth and Falsehood, causes of mystery about, 254
  • two questions in, 254 ff.
  • meaning of a sentence examined, 255 f.
  • grounds on which statements are regarded as true or false, 257
  • ultimate test of falsehood, 258
  • “belief”, 258 ff.
  • problems of, 259 ff.
  • Universals, 53, 203
  • Universe, the, philosophy concerned with, 236
  • man’s relation to, 298 ff.
  • “Unlearned Equipment”, 22
  • Utilitarian philosophy, 229 f.
  • Vitalists, 25
  • Volition, 61
  • Watson, Dr. J. B., 10, 21, 22, 31, 33, 35, 36, 37, 70 ff., 126 ff., 162, 167 ff., 177, 188, 219, 223, 259
  • Waves in empty space, 107 f.
  • Whitehead, Dr., 159
  • “Will”, 223 f.
  • Willing, as mental occurrence, 202
  • Winds of Doctrine (Santayana), 230
  • Wish-fulfilment and dread-fulfilment, 194
  • Wittgenstein, 264
  • Words, purpose of, 11 f.
  • as physical occurrences, 44 ff.
  • spoken and written, 46 f.
  • how acquired by infants, 48 ff.
  • meaning of, 52, 256
  • relations of, 56
  • in an ideal logical language, 256 f.
  • World, the physical, nature of our
  • knowledge of, 151 ff.
  • a four-dimensional continuum of events, 293
  • our knowledge of, purely abstract, 295

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