Psychology: empirical and rational

Psychology: empirical and rational

Author: Maher, Michael, 1860-1918

Year: 1900

TABLE OF CONTENTS. Illustrations INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. Definition and Scope of Psychology . . . Pp. i — 10 Definitions of Psychology, Subjective and Objective, i, seq. —Scope, 2— Empirical and Rational Psychology, 5— Psychology distinguished from Cosmology, 6 — From Logic, 7 — From Ethics, 8 — Relations with Physiology, 9. CHAPTER II. Method of Psychology Pp. 11 — 25 Psychology a Science, 11— Introspective Method, 11 — Objective or Supplementary Methods, 13— These Methods not new, 18 —Rational Psychology deductive, 18— Attacks on Psychology, 19 — Objections to Introspection answered, 20— Real difficulties, 24. CHAPTER III. Classification of Mental Faculties . . . Pp. 26—41 Consciousness, 26 — Subconscious mental activities, 27 — Mental Faculties classified, 28 — Subdivision, 32 — Various classifications : Aristotle's, 33— St. Thomas', 33— Scotch school, 34 — Hamilton's, 34 Herbert Spencer's, 35— Attacks on Mental Faculties, 36— Mutual relations of the Faculties, 39 — Feeling, 40. BOOK I. Empirical or Phenomenal Psychology. Part I. — Sensuous Life. CHAPTER IV. Sensation Pp. 42 — 62 Sensation, Sense and Sense-organ defined, 42 — Excitation of Sensation, 43 — The Nervous System, 44