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George Herbert Mead. The Philosophy of the Act (Edited by Charles W. Morris with John M. Brewster, Albert M. Dunham and David Miller). Chicago: University of Chicago (1938).

The Philosophy of the Act
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PART I. GENERAL ANALYSIS OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE ACT

I. STAGES IN THE ACT: PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

A. The Stage of Impulse

1. Sensitivity as a Function of Response
2. The Problematic Situation

B. The Stage of Perception

1. Perception
2. The Sensuous Character of Things
3. The Reality of the Object in Perception

C. The Stage of Manipulation: Perceptual and Scientific Objects

D. The Stage of Consummation

II. THE LIMITS OF THE PROBLEMATIC

III. THE NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

IV. CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE UNQUESTIONED

V. FRAGMENTS ON THE PROCESS OF REFLECTION

VI. HISTORY AND THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD

 

PART II. PERCEPTUAL AND MANIPULATORY PHASES OF THE ACT

VII. PERSPECTIVE THEORY OF PERCEPTION

VIII. MEDIATE FACTORS IN PERCEPTION

IX. THE SOCIAL FACTOR IN PERCEPTION

X. PERCEPTUAL ERROR

XI PERSPECTIVE THEORY OF OBJECTS

XII. THE RELATIVITY OF OBJECTS

XIII. PERCEPTION AND THE SPATIOTEMPORAL

XIV. THE PERCEPTUAL MODEL IN SCIENCE

XV. THE EXPERIENTIAL BASIS OF NATURAL SCIENCE

A. Basic Assumptions

B. Psychological Analysis and Temporal Extension into Past and Future C. The Specious Present

D. Imagery

E. Spatiotemporal Character of Objects of Immediate Experience

F. Contemporaneity and the Specious Present

G. The Existence of Temporal Perspectives

H. Visual Space and Contact Space

I. Experience and Newtonian Relativity

J. Relativity and Subjectivism

K. The Individual and the Spatiotemporal

PART III. COSMOLOGY

XVI. ONTOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS

A. Ontological Assumptions in Conception and in Conduct

B. Ontological Assumptions in Experimental Science

C. Ontological Assumptions as Empirical Regulative Procedures

XVII. MECHANICAL AND TELEOLOGICAL OBJECTS

XVIII. FORM AND ENVIRONMENT

XIX. MECHANISM AND CONTINGENCY

XX. PASSAGE, PROCESS, AND PERMANENCE

XXI. THE PROCESS OF MIND IN NATURE

A. The Effect of Modern Physical Science on the Concept of Mind

B. Pragmatic Reactions to a Scientifically Inspired Dualism

C. The Act in Relation to Distance and Contact Experiences

D. The Function of the Self in Conduct

E. The Nature of Mental Processes

F. Images, Ideas, and Secondary Qualities

G. The Functional Theory of Reflection

H. Concerning Greek Formulations of the Problem of Mind

I. The Nature of Universality and Necessity

J. Historical Aspects of the Mind-Body Problem

K. Rejection of Traditionally Proposed Criteria of Mentality

L. Consciousness and Physical Analysis

M. Mechanism and Novelty

N. Reply to a Mechanistic Criticism of Novelty

O. The Mechanism of Role-taking in the Appearance of the Physical Object

P. The Determination of Co-ordinate Systems

Q. Inadequacy of the Traditional Mechanical Statement of the World

 

PART IV. VALUE AND THE ACT

XXII. VALUE AND THE CONSUMMATORY PHASE OF THE ACT

XXIII. THE AESTHETIC AND THE CONSUMMATORY

XXIV. MORAL BEHAVIOR AND REFLECTIVE THINKING

XXV. SCIENCE AND RELIGION

XXVI RELIGION AND SOCIAL VALUES

XXVII. BACK OF OUR MINDS

XXVIII. EXPERIMENTALISM AS A PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

 

PART V. SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAYS

XXIX. FRAGMENTS ON WHITEHEAD

A. Questions about Whitehead's Concept of Relativity

B. Interrelated Time Systems of Whitehead

C. Conditions for Time Systems

D. Analysis of Whitehead's Account of Space

E. Analysis of Whitehead's View of Perspectives

XXX. FRAGMENTS ON RELATIVITY

A. Classical and Relative Measurement

B. Measurement and Action

C. Visual Space and Simultaneity

D. Relative Simultaneity

E. Visual Space and Contact Space

F. Relativity and Perception

XXXI. MISCELLANEOUS FRAGMENTS

A. The Organization of Perspectives

B. Hypothesis and the Past

C. Emergence and the Past

D. Social Group and Individual Mind

E. Science and the Control of Conduct

F. Religion, Metaphysics, and Value

G. Categorial Fragments

1. Metaphysics
2. Reality
3. Form
4. Unity
5. Universals and Particulars
6. Passage
7. Relations
8. Teleology
9. Emergence
10. Perspectives
11. Potentiality
12. Causality
13. Contingency
14. Sociality
15. Consciousness
16. Reflection
17. Creativity
18. Freedom

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