1st Edition

The Mind and its Place in Nature

By C.D. Broad Copyright 1925
    684 Pages
    by Routledge

    688 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume III of eight in a collection on the Philosophy of the Mind and Language. Originally published in 1925, this text looks at alternative theories of life and mind at the level of enlightened common-sense; the Mind's knowledge of Existents and the Unconscious.

    CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION - GENERAL REMARKS ON METHOD-PLURALISM AND MONISM CHAPTER II. MECHANISM AND ITS ALTERNATIVES CHAPTER III. THE TRADITIONAL PROBLEM OF BODY AND MIND CHAPTER IV. SENSE-PERCEPTION AND MATTER CHAPTER V. MEMORY CHAPTER VI. INTROSPECTION CHAPTER VII. THE MIND'S KNOWLEDGE OF OTHERMINDS CHAPTER VIII. VARIOUS MEANINGS OF THE TERM UNCONSCIOUS CHAPTER IX. THE ALLEGED EVIDENCE FOR UNCONSCIOUS MENTAL EVENTS AND PROCESSES CHAPTER X. THE NATURE OF TRACES AND DISPOSITIONS CHAPTER XI. ETHICAL ARGUMENTS FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL CHAPTER XII. EMPIRICAL ARGUMENTS FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL CHAPTER XIII. THE UNITY OF THE MIND CHAPTER XIV. THE STATUS AND PROSPECTS OF MIND IN NATURE

    Biography

    C.D. Broad