The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2)
The second volume of William James's The Principles of Psychology, published in 1890, carries his survey from the senses to the highest reaches of thought. It opens with sensation and imagination, then treats the perception of things, illusions and hallucinations, and gives a long account of how we come to perceive space and time. Chapters on memory, reasoning, instinct, emotion and will follow, including James's influential claim that bodily changes come first and the feeling of emotion follows, and his analysis of effort and attention in the chapter on will. The book ends with hypnotism and with a discussion of necessary truths and the origins of our mental categories. James writes as a scientist who never forgets he is describing lived experience. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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