| Chapters in James’s Principles* | Sources in James’s previous work** | Treatments in this book*** |
Preface (5–7) |
3.Evidence and Interpretation 4.Psychology and Philosophy | |
1.The Scope of Psychology (15–24) |
2.Substance and Style 5.Mind and Body 9.Cognition and Emotion | |
2.The Functions of the Brain (25–87) |
5.Mind and Body | |
3.On Some General Conditions of Brain-Activity (88–108) |
5.Mind and Body | |
4.Habit (109–131) |
The Laws of Habit (1887) |
6.Habit and Thought 11.Attention and Will |
5.The Automaton-Theory (132–147) |
Are We Automata? (1879) |
5.Mind and Body 6.Habit and Thought |
6.The Mind-Stuff Theory (148–182) |
5.Mind and Body 10.Consciousness and Subconsciousness | |
7.The Methods and Snares of Psychology (183–196) |
On Some Omissions of Introspective Psychology (1884) |
3.Evidence and Interpretation |
8.The Relations of Minds to Other Things (197–218) |
The Hidden Self (1890) |
4.Psychology and Philosophy 10.Consciousness and Subconsciousness 13.Belief and Reality 14.Known and Unknown |
9.The Stream of Thought (219–278) |
Are We Automata? (1879) On Some Omissions of Introspective Psychology (1884) |
3.Evidence and Interpretation 7.Perception and Conception 8.Imagination and Memory 9.Cognition and Emotion 10.Consciousness and Subconsciousness 11.Attention and Will 12.Self and Others |
10.The Consciousness of Self (279–379) |
Notes on Automatic Writing (1889) The Hidden Self (1890) |
10.Consciousness and Subconsciousness |
11.Attention (380–433) |
10.Consciousness and Subconsciousness 11.Attention and Will | |
12.Conception (434–456) |
On Some Omissions of Introspective Psychology (1884) |
6.Habit and Thought 7.Perception and Conception 8.Imagination and Memory 9.Cognition and Emotion |
13.Discrimination and Comparison (457–518) |
Brute and Human Intellect (1878) |
7.Perception and Conception 11.Attention and Will |
14.Association (519–569) |
The Association of Ideas (1880) |
6.Habit and Thought 7.Perception and Conception 8.Imagination and Memory |
15.The Perception of Time (570–604) |
The Perception of Time (1886) |
7.Perception and Conception |
16.Memory (605–650) |
7.Perception and Conception 8.Imagination and Memory 12.Self and Others | |
17.Sensation (651–689) |
The Perception of Space (Part II) (1887) |
3.Evidence and Interpretation 5.Mind and Body 7.Perception and Conception |
18.Imagination (690–721) |
8.Imagination and Memory | |
The Perception of Space (Part III) (1887) |
7.Perception and Conception 13.Belief and Reality | |
20.The Perception of Space (776–912) |
The Perception of Space (Parts I-IV) (1887) The Spatial Quale (1879) |
7.Perception and Conception |
21.The Perception of Reality (913–951) |
Rationality, Activity and Faith (1882) The Psychology of Belief (1889) |
3.Evidence and Interpretation 13.Belief and Reality 14.Known and Unknown |
22.Reasoning (952–993) |
Brute and Human Intellect (1878) The Sentiment of Rationality (1879) Report of the Committee on Hypnotism (1886) |
7.Perception and Conception 9.Cognition and Emotion |
23.The Production of Movement (994–1003) |
5.Mind and Body 6.Habit and Thought | |
24.Instinct (1004–1057) |
What Is an Instinct? (1887) Some Human Instincts (1887) |
6.Habit and Thought |
25.The Emotions (1058–1097) |
What Is an Emotion? (1884) |
9.Cognition and Emotion |
26.Will (1098–1193) |
The Feeling of Effort (1880) What the Will Effects (1888) |
11.Attention and Will 12.Self and Others |
27.Hypnotism (1194–1214) |
Report of the Committee on Hypnotism (1886) |
10.Consciousness and Subconsciousness 14.Known and Unknown |
28.Necessary Truths and the Effects of Experience (1215–1280) |
Reflex Action and Theism (1881) |
3.Evidence and Interpretation 14.Known and Unknown |
*Page numbers are given for these chapters as they appear in the Harvard edition (1981) so that readers may identify the chapter-source of page-citations in this book.
**A listing of articles written by James prior to the publication of The Principles of Psychology from which he drew textual material for chapters in the Principles, based upon an analysis by the textual editors of the 1981 Harvard University Press edition of Principles (F. Burkhardt, Ed., Vol. 3, pp. 1591–1598). Confer this source for complete citations of James’s articles and information about how much he took from each article and how much he revised what he took.
***A listing of the chapters in this book that treat the substantive content in the various chapters of The Principles of Psychology to a greater or lesser degree, and more or less explicitly.