{"product_id":"the-metaphysics-of-sir-william-hamilton-collected-arranged-and-abridged-for-the-use-of-colleges-and-private-students","title":"The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton, Collected, Arranged, and Abridged, for the Use of Colleges and Private Students","description":"viii, 563 pp. CONTENTS: Utility of the Study of Philosophy; The Nature and Comprehension of Philosophy; The Causes of Philosophy, and the Dispositions with Which it Ought to Be Studied; The Method of Philosophy; The Divisions of Philosophy; Definition of Psychology: Relativity of Human Knowledge: Explication of Terms; Explication of Terms Continued; Distribution of Mental Phaenomena: Special Conditions of Consciousness; Consciousness Not a Special Faculty; Consciousness Not a Special Faculty Continued: Its Relation to Perception, Attention, and Reflection; Consciousness,--Its Evidence and Authority; Violations of the Authority of Consciousness in Various Theories of Perception; General Phaenomena of Consciousness: Are We Always Consciously Active?; General Phaenomena of Consciousness: Is the Mind Ever Unconsciously Modified?; Genearl Phaenomena of Consciouness: Difficulties and Facilities of Psychological Study: Classifiecation of the Cognitive Faculties; The Presentative Faculty: Reid's historical View of the Theories of Perception; The Presentative Faculty: Perception: Was Reid a Natural Realist?; The Presentative Faculty: The Distinction of Perception Proper from Sensation Proper: Primary and Secondary Qualities; The Presentative Faculty: Objections to the Doctrine of Natural Realism Considered: The Representative Hypothesis Refuted; The Presentative Faculty: General Questions Relating to the Senses: Perceptions by Sight and Touch; The Presentative Faculty: Recapitulation: II. Self-Consciousness; The Conservative Faculty: Memory Proper; The Reproductive Faculty: Laws and Associations: Suggestion and Reminiscence; The Representative Faculty: Imagination; The Elaborative Faculty: Classification: Abstraction and Generalization: Nominalism and Conceptualism; The Elaborative Faculty: The Primum Cognitum: Judgment and Reasoning: The Regulative Faculty: The Philosophy of the Conditioned; The Regulative Faculty: Law of the Conditioned In Its Application to the Doctrine of Causality. ABOUT SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON: \"Sir William Hamilton, KB, PC, FRS, FRSE (13 December 1730 – 6 April 1803), was a British diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist. After a short period as a Member of Parliament, he served as British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples from 1764 to 1800. He studied the volcanoes Vesuvius and Etna, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society and recipient of the Copley Medal. His second wife was Emma Hamilton, famed as Horatio Nelson's mistress.\"","brand":"John Allyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31431908327494,"sku":"2302755","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2302755.jpg?v=1584474485","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/the-metaphysics-of-sir-william-hamilton-collected-arranged-and-abridged-for-the-use-of-colleges-and-private-students","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}