Psychology: the Cognitive Powers
James McCosh
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Length 8 h 22 min
Chapters 29
First published 1886
For the last thirty-four years I have been teaching Psychology by written lectures to students in Ireland and America. From year to year I have been improving my course, and I claim to have advanced with the times. As Uncle Toby's stockings were so often darned that he was not sure whether there remained a single thread of the original fabric, so my prelections have been so constantly mended that I do not know that a single sentence remains of my early lectures.
I certainly wish this little work to be used as a textbook, and would thus widen and prolong my teaching power. But people say "dull as a text-book". In physical science and in literature they illuminate their books (as in the old missals) by figures. We cannot do this in mental science, as our thoughts have not forms nor colors. I maintain, however, that they have livelier features. I have sought to avoid dryness by illustrating mental laws by examples taken from human nature. As general laws are drawn from particular cases, so they are best understood by concrete facts coming under our experience. - Summary by Preface
Chapters
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Introduction Part 1 Read by KristynaVavrikova 18:14
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Introduction Part 2 Read by KristynaVavrikova 16:30
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Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers -Sense-Perception Part 1 Read by Ted Lienhart 19:43
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Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers - Sense-Perception Part 2 Read by LesWilLang 17:40
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Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers - Sense-Perception Part 3 Read by LesWilLang 25:39
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Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers - Sense-Perception Part 4 Read by David Angelo 19:02
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Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers - Sense-Perception Part 5 Read by Ted Lienhart 27:17
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Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers - Self-Consciousness Part 1 Read by Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025) 19:39
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Book First - The Simple Cognitive or Presentative Powers - Self-Consciousness Part 2 Read by Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025) 16:00
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Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - Retention Read by Ted Lienhart 14:29
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Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Recalling Power or Phantasy Part 1 Read by Ted Lienhart 21:13
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Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Recalling Power or Phantasy Part 2 Read by Ted Lienhart 9:23
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Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Association of Ideas Part 1 Read by Ted Lienhart 13:22
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Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Association of Ideas Part 2 Read by Ted Lienhart 30:52
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Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Association of Ideas Part 3 Read by Ted Lienhart 12:14
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Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Association of Ideas Part 4 Read by Ted Lienhart 19:09
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Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Association of Ideas Part 5 Read by Ted Lienhart 22:18
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Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Recognitive Power Read by John Ollado 23:14
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Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Power of Composition Part 1 Read by TheWriteStuff 19:38
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Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Power of Composition Part 2 Read by Ted Lienhart 19:24
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Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Power of Composition Part 3 Read by Ted Lienhart 22:35
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Book Second - The Reproductive or Representative Power - The Symbolic Power Read by Ted Lienhart 22:54
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Book Third - The Comparative Powers - Office of the Comparative Powers Read by EmilyCripps 4:40
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Book Third - The Comparative Powers - Classification of Relations Part 1 Read by EmilyCripps 18:00
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Book Third - The Comparative Powers - Classification of Relations Part 2 Read by EmilyCripps 14:43
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Book Third - The Comparative Powers - The Discursive Operations Read by Owlivia 6:07
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Book Third - The Comparative Powers - Intuition in the Discovert of Relation Read by Owlivia 3:52
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Book Third - The Comparative Powers - General Remarks on the Comparative Powers Read by Owlivia 16:11
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Conclusion - Rise of our Ideas Read by TheManOfLetters 7:56
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