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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Mind and the Brain, by Alfred Binet

Title: The Mind and the Brain

Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps

Author: Alfred Binet

Release Date: April 14, 2007 [eBook #21077]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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Transcriber's Note:

References are made to footnotes in other footnotes and index. The footnotes are serially numbered and placed at the end of each chapter. Consequently the references in the footnotes and index have been corrected to indicate the footnote number.

 

 

 

 

International Scientific Series.

VOLUME LXXXIX.

 

(The International Scientific Series)

Edited by F. Legge

 

 

THE MIND AND THE
BRAIN

 

BY

ALFRED BINET

Directeur du Laboratoire de Psychologie
à la Sorbonne

 

BEING THE AUTHORISED TRANSLATION OF

L'ÂME ET LE CORPS

 

 

 

LONDON

KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO. LTD

DRYDEN HOUSE, GERRARD STREET, W.

1907

CONTENTS

  PAGE
 
BOOK I
The Definition of Matter
 
CHAPTER I
Introduction
The distinction between mind and matter—Knowable not homogeneous—Criterion employed, enumeration not concepts   3
CHAPTER II
Our Knowledge of External Objects only Sensation
Modern theories of matter—Outer world only known to us by our sensations—Instances—Mill's approval of proposition, and its defects—Nervous system only intermediary between self and outer world—The great X of Matter—Nervous system does not give us true image—Müller's law of specificity of the nerves—The nervous system itself a sensation—Relations of sensation with the unknowable the affair of metaphysics   10
CHAPTER III
The Mechanical Theories of Matter are only Symbols
Physicists vainly endeavour to reduce the rôle of sensation—Mathematical, energetical, and mechanical theories of universe—Mechanical model formed from sensation—Instance of tuning-fork—No one sensation any right to hegemony over others   27
CHAPTER IV
Answers to some Objections, and Summary
Objections of spiritualists—Of German authors who contend that nervous system does give true image—Of metaphysicians—Common ground of objection that nervous system not intermediary—Answer to this—Summary of preceding chapters   44
 
BOOK II
The Definition of Mind
 
CHAPTER I
The Distinction between Cognition and its Object

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