1st Edition

Revival: The Psychology of Reasoning (1923)

By Eugenio Rignano Copyright 1923
    408 Pages
    by Routledge

    412 Pages
    by Routledge

    This Book owes its origin to the indefinable sense of uneasiness and discontent into which I was thrown by the perusal of some of the best treatises on Logic. These treatises had failed to explain the nature of the logical or reasoning faculty, though purporting to indicate the laws which govern its proper functioning. Even the work of John Stuart Mill, which still remains in my opinion the best, was no more convincing than the rest. And the more I read of such books the less satisfied I became and the stonger became my desire to understand clearly what constituted reasoning.

    As for the psychologists I found to my surprise that they either omitted reasoning altogether, or alluded to it in a most superficial manner.

    Chapter I On the Mnemonic Origin and Nature of Affective Tendencies

    Chapter II Attention

    Part I: Affective Conflict and Unity of Consciousness

    Chapter III Attention

    Part II: Vividness and Connection

    Chapter IV What is Reasoning

    Chapter V The Evolution of Reasoning

    Part I: From Concrete reasoning to Abstract Reasoning

    Chapter VI The Evolution of Reasoning

    Part II From Intuition to Deduction

    Chapter VII The Higher Forms of Reasoning

    Part II: Mathematical Reasoning in its Phases of symbolic condensation and symbolic inversion

    Chapter IX The Higher Forms of Reasoning

    Part III: Mathematics and Mathematical Logic

    Chapter X "Intentional" Reasoning

    Part I: Dialectic Reasoning

    Chapter XI "Intentional" reasoning

    Part II: Metaphysical Reasoning

    Chapter XII The Different Logical Types of Mind

    Chapter XIII The Pathology of Reasoning

    Part I: The Incoherence and Illogicality of Dreams

    Chapter XIV The Pathology of Reasoning

    Part III: Incoherent Insanity due to Mono-affectivism 

    Chapter XV The Pathology of Reasoning

    Part III: Incoherent Insanity due to Instability, Impotence or Absence of the Affective Tendencies

    Chapter XVI Conscious and Unconscious reasoning

    Conclusion

    Reasoning in Relation to Vital Finalism

    Index

    Biography

    Eugenio Rignano