The Physical Basis of Mind / Being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind.
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PROBLEMS OF LIFE AND MIND. The Foundations of a Creed. Two Volumes. Octavo. Per volume, $3.00.
Contents: The Method of Science and its Applications to Metaphysics—The Rules of Philosophizing—Psychological Principles—The Limitations of Knowledge—The Principles of Certitude—From the Known to the Unknown—Matter and Force—Force and Cause—The Absolute in the Correlations of Feeling and Motion.
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BEING THE SECOND SERIES OF PROBLEMS OF LIFE AND MIND.
BY GEORGE HENRY LEWES.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1891.
George Henry Lewes
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
THE NATURE OF LIFE.
THE POSITION OF BIOLOGY.
ORGANISMS.
VITAL FORCE.
VITAL FORCE CONTROLLING PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL FORCES.
ORGANISM AND MEDIUM.
THE HYPOTHESIS OF GERMINAL MATTER.
ORGANISMS AND MACHINES;
DOES THE FUNCTION DETERMINE THE ORGAN?
NATURAL SELECTION AND ORGANIC AFFINITY.
RECAPITULATION.
THE NERVOUS MECHANISM.
THE EARLY FORMS OF NERVE CENTRES.
THE PERIPHERAL SYSTEM.
GANGLIA AND CENTRES,
ORIGIN OF NERVE-FORCE.
THE HYPOTHESIS OF SPECIFIC ENERGIES.
DIFFICULTIES OF THE INVESTIGATION.
THE NERVE-CELL.
THE NERVES.
THE NEUROGLIA.
THE RELATIONS OF THE ORGANITES.
RECAPITULATION.
THE ENERGY OF NEURILITY.
THE PROPAGATION OF EXCITATION.
STIMULI.
STIMULATION.
THE LAW OF DISCHARGE.
THE LAW OF ARREST.
THE HYPOTHESIS OF INHIBITORY CENTRES.
ANATOMICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE LAWS.
ANIMAL AUTOMATISM.
THE REFLEX THEORY.
CEREBRAL REFLEXES.
DISCRIMINATION.
MEMORY.
INSTINCT.
THE MECHANISM OF INSTINCT.
ACQUISITION.
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