The Analysis of Mind
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1921
- Form
- Treatise
- Language
- English
- Length
- Medium · 310 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Difficult4 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendThe Analysis of MindRoutledge, 1995Reprints the 1921 text; any complete edition will do.
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Fifteen lectures in which Russell tries to build an account of mind out of the same neutral stuff as matter. Drawing on American behaviourism and William James, he treats instinct, habit, desire, memory, images, belief and consciousness one by one, arguing that none of them requires a mental substance distinct from the world of physics. Mind and matter are two ways of grouping the same events, a view he calls neutral monism. The book marks his turn from logic and epistemology toward psychology and the philosophy of science.
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