The Mind and the Brain

Alfred Binet

Language: English

Genres: Non-fiction Philosophy Psychology

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1. Book 1 The Definition of Matter - Chapter 1 - Introduction
2. Book 1 Chapter 2 - Our Knowledge of External Objects only Sensation
3. Book 1 Chapter 3 - The Mechanical Theories of Matter are only Symbols
4. Book 1 Chapter 4 - Answers to some Objections, and Summary
5. Book 2 - The Defnition of Mind - Chapter 1 - The Distinction between Cognition and its Object
6. Book 2 Chapter 2 - Definition of Sensation
7. Book 2 Chapter 3 - Definition of the Image
8. Book 2 Chapter 4 - Definition of the Emotions
9. Book 2 Chapter 5 - Definition of the Consciousness—The Relation Subject-Object
10. Book 2 Chapter 6- Definition of the Consciousness—Categories of Understanding
11. Book 2 Chapter 7 - Definition of the Consciousness—The Separability of the Consciousness from its Object—Discussion of Idealism
12. Book 2 Chapter 8 - Definition of the Consciousness—The Separation of the Consciousness from its object—The Unconscious
13. Book 2 Chapter 9 - Definitions of Psychology
14. Book 3 - The Union of the Soul and the Body - Chapter 1 - The Mind Has an Incomplete Life
15. Book 3 Chapter 2 - Spiritualism and Idealism
16. Book 3 Chapter 3 - Materialism and Parallelism
17. Book 3 Chapter 4 - Modern Theories
18. Book 3 Chapter 5 - Conclusion
19. Book 3 Chapter 6 - Recapitulation

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The authorized translation of L’âme et le corps, F. Legge, editor

“This book is a prolonged effort to establish a distinction between what is called mind and what is called matter. Nothing is more simple than to realise this distinction when you do not go deeply into it; nothing is more difficult when you analyse it a little. At first sight, it seems impossible to confuse things so far apart as a thought and a block of stone; but on reflection this great contrast vanishes, and other differences have to be sought which are less apparent and of which one has not hitherto dreamed.” (from The Mind and the Brain)