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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Table of Contents
- 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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