The Analysis of Mind

By: Bertrand Russell

Narrated by: Cate Barratt

The Analysis of the Mind by Bertrand Russell is a collection of 15 lectures he delivered in 1920. Russell was a highly reputed philosopher, mathematician, and social critic, and would go on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.

These lectures were based on a wholly new approach to exploring the relation between mind and matter.

Lecture I: Recent Criticisms of 'Consciousness'

Lecture II: Instinct and Habit

Lecture III: Desire and Feeling

Lecture IV: Influence of Past History on Present Occurrences in Living

Lecture V: Psychological and Physical Causal Laws

Lecture VI: Introspection

Lecture VII: The Definition of Perception

Lecture VIII: Sensations and Images

Lecture IX: Memory

Lecture X: Words and Meaning

Lecture XI: General Ideas and Thought

Lecture XII: Belief

Lecture XIII: Truth and Falsehood

Lecture XIV: Emotions and Will

Lecture XV: Characteristics of Mental Phenomena

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Public Domain (P)2021 Cate Barratt

Towards a General Theory of Mind

This is the first philosophy book that I've found useful towards a general theory of mind. Granted, I am not well read in this regard.

William James seems to be a major influence. Russell also seems up to date on the psychology of his time.

The reader is satisfactory. The content requires more concentration than a normal book but is still definitely understandable audibly.