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The Principles of Psychology (1855)

In this volume Spencer elaborates his views on reasoning, perception, the nature of life, intelligence, feeling, and the will.

The Principles of Psychology (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855).

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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
PART I.: SPECIAL ANALYSIS.
CHAPTER I.: A DATUM WANTED.
CHAPTER II.: THE UNIVERSAL POSTULATE.
CHAPTER III.: ITS COROLLARIES.
CHAPTER IV.: OUR PRESENT POSITION.
PART II.: SPECIAL ANALYSIS.
CHAPTER I.: COMPOUND QUANTITATIVE REASONING.
CHAPTER II.: COMPOUND QUANTITATIVE REASONING (CONTINUED).
CHAPTER III.: IMPERFECT AND SIMPLE QUANTITATIVE REASONING.
CHAPTER IV.: QUANTITATIVE REASONING IN GENERAL.
CHAPTER V.: PERFECT QUALITATIVE REASONING.
CHAPTER VI.: IMPERFECT QUALITATIVE REASONING.
CHAPTER VII.: REASONING IN GENERAL.
CHAPTER VIII.: CLASSIFICATION, NAMING, AND RECOGNITION.
CHAPTER IX.: THE PERCEPTION OF SPECIAL OBJECTS.
CHAPTER X.: THE PERCEPTION OF BODY AS PRESENTING DYNAMICAL, STATICO-DYNAMICAL, AND STATICAL ATTRIBUTES.∗
CHAPTER XI.: THE PERCEPTION OF BODY AS PRESENTING STATICO-DYNAMICAL AND STATICAL ATTRIBUTES.
CHAPTER XII.: THE PERCEPTION OF BODY AS PRESENTING STATICAL ATTRIBUTES.
CHAPTER XIII.: THE PERCEPTION OF SPACE.
CHAPTER XIV.: THE PERCEPTION OF TIME.
CHAPTER XV.: THE PERCEPTION OF MOTION.
CHAPTER XVI.: THE PERCEPTION OF RESISTANCE.
CHAPTER XVII.: PERCEPTION IN GENERAL.
CHAPTER XVIII.: THE RELATIONS OF SIMILARITY AND DISSIMILARITY.
CHAPTER XIX.: THE RELATIONS OF COINTENSION AND NON-COINTENSION.
CHAPTER XX.: THE RELATIONS OF COEXTENSION AND NON-COEXTENSION.
CHAPTER XXI.: THE RELATIONS OF COEXISTENCE AND NON-COEXISTENCE.
CHAPTER XXII.: THE RELATIONS OF CONNATURE AND NON-CONNATURE.
CHAPTER XXIII.: THE RELATIONS OF LIKENESS AND UNLIKENESS.
CHAPTER XXIV.: THE RELATION OF SEQUENCE.
CHAPTER XXV.: CONSCIOUSNESS IN GENERAL.
CHAPTER XXVI.: RESULTS.
PART III.: GENERAL SYNTHESIS.
CHAPTER I.: METHOD.
CHAPTER II.: CONNEXION OF MIND AND LIFE.
CHAPTER III.: PROXIMATE DEFINITION OF LIFE.
CHAPTER IV.: THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND ITS CIRCUMSTANCES.
CHAPTER V.: THE DEGREE OF LIFE VARIES AS THE DEGREE OF CORRESPONDENCE.
CHAPTER VI.: THE CORRESPONDENCE AS DIRECT AND HOMOGENEOUS.
CHAPTER VII.: THE CORRESPONDENCE AS DIRECT BUT HETEROGENEOUS.
CHAPTER VIII.: THE CORRESPONDENCE AS EXTENDING IN SPACE.
CHAPTER IX.: THE CORRESPONDENCE AS EXTENDING IN TIME.
CHAPTER X.: THE CORRESPONDENCE AS INCREASING IN SPECIALITY.
CHAPTER XI.: THE CORRESPONDENCE AS INCREASING IN GENERALITY.
CHAPTER XII.: THE CORRESPONDENCE AS INCREASING IN COMPLEXITY.
CHAPTER XIII.: THE CO-ORDINATION OF CORRESPONDENCES.
CHAPTER XIV.: THE INTEGRATION OF CORRESPONDENCES.
CHAPTER XV.: THE CORRESPONDENCES IN THEIR TOTALITY.
PART IV.: SPECIAL SYNTHESIS.
CHAPTER I.: THE NATURE OF INTELLIGENCE.
CHAPTER II.: THE LAW OF INTELLIGENCE.
CHAPTER III.: THE GROWTH OF INTELLIGENCE.
CHAPTER IV.: REFLEX ACTION.
CHAPTER V.: INSTINCT.
CHAPTER VI.: MEMORY.
CHAPTER VII.: REASON.
CHAPTER VIII.: THE FEELINGS.
CHAPTER IX.: THE WILL.

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