A Pluralistic Universe / Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy

by William James

LECTURE V

Note 1, page 182.—Royce: The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, p. 379.

Note 2, page 184.—The World and the Individual, vol. ii, pp. 58-62.

Note 3, page 190.—I hold to it still as the best description of an enormous number of our higher fields of consciousness. They demonstrably do not contain the lower states that know the same objects. Of other fields, however this is not so true; so, in the Psychological Review for 1895, vol. ii, p. 105 (see especially pp. 119-120), I frankly withdrew, in principle, my former objection to talking of fields of consciousness being made of simpler 'parts,' leaving the facts to decide the question in each special case.

Note 4, page 194.—I abstract from the consciousness attached to the whole itself, if such consciousness be there.