MODERN PHILOSOPHY

WITH OTHER LECTURES AND ESSAYS

BY

ROBERT ADAMSON

M.A., LL.D.
SOMETIME PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND RHETORIC IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW

EDITED BY

W. R. SORLEY

M.A., LL.D.
PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

IN TWO VOLUMES-VOL. II.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON

1903

All Rights reserved

PART II.

PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY.

A. GENERAL ANALYSIS.

CHAPTER 1.-THE PROVINCE OF PSYCHOLOGY.

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Difficulties involved in the definition of psychology

as the science of mind, .

as the science of the phenomena of consciousness

A terminus in the defining process marked by the latter

term

Consciousness as all that of which one is aware at any given

moment, or as the total series of such momentary states.

Twofold distinction required

(a) between the objective facts and the modification of the

subject's existence which constitutes his perception of

them (=distinction between outer and inner).

(6) the same distinction as holding good for the subject

himself, between the state of consciousness and its

reference to something other than itself

Question as to the primary character of this distinction

Resultant suggestion as to the peculiarity of the psychological

treatment of facts .

The material of psychology-

(a) the immediate experiences

(b) the process by which the distinction between subject

and object is developed.

Consequent distinction between psychology and epistem-

ology

Definition of psychology

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