The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

William James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330274156 ISBN 13 : 9781330274156

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how memory shapes who we are and how psychology explains the seamless link between past feelings and present self.

Memory and the sense of self are explored through careful analysis of how we experience past, present, and future thoughts. The discussion centers on how memories tie together a continuous sense of identity, and how different thinkers have approached this problem within the study of psychology. The aim is to clarify what we can know about the self from the flow of consciousness, while acknowledging the limits of our explanations.

• How memory creates a personal sense of self by tying together past experiences with present awareness.


• How remembrance and expectation build from present feelings to form beliefs about the past and future.


• What memory reveals about attention, repetition, and the changing strength of traces in the brain.


• How debates about self and consciousness have shaped the study of psychology and philosophy.

Ideal for readers of philosophy of mind and psychology who want a clear, practical look at how memory underpins personal identity and conscious experience.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

After inner perception, outer perception !T he next three chapters will treat of the processes by which we cognize at all times the present world of space and the material things which it contains. And first, of the process called Sensation. SENSATIOIJ AND PERCEPTION DISTINGUISHED. The words Sensation and Perception do not carry very definitely discriminated meanings in popular speech, and in Psychology also their meanings run into each other. Both of them name processes in which we cognize an objective world; both (under normal conditions) need the stimulation of incoming nerves ere they can occur ;P erception always involves Sensation as a portion of itself ;and Sensation in turn never takes place in adult life without Perception also being there. They are therefore names for different cognitive functions, not for different sorts of mental fact. The nearer the object cognized comes to being a simple quality like hot, cold, red, noise, pain, apprehended irrelatively to other things, the more the state of mind approaches pure sensation. The fuller of relations the object is, on the contrary ;the more it is something classed, located, measured, compared, assigned to a function, etc., etc.; the more unreservedly do we call the state of mind a perception, and the relatively smaller is the part in it which sensation plays.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330274156
• ISBN 13: 9781330274156
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 707
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