The Primary World of Senses: A Vindication of Sensory Experience

xvi, 428 pp. CONTENTS: Preface to the Second Edition (1956); Acknowledgement; Introduction: The Dependence of Modern Psychology on Cartesian Philosophy; Part I. Critique of the Doctrine of Conditioned Reflexes: The Relation Between Theory and Observation in Pavlov's Work - General Presuppositions - Some Difficulties Confronting the Application of Pavlov's Theory; Part II. Stimuli, Signs, and Signals: The Nature of the Signal - Resolution of the Difficulties; Part III. Man Thinks, Not the Brain: Surrounding Field and Surround World - Signs Are Not Stimuli - Stimuli Are Not Objects; Part IV. Sensing and Movement Considered Historiologically: Preliminary Characterization of Sensing - Sensing Considered as a Mode of Communication - The Relationship Between Sensing and Moving - On Being Awake - Critique of Epiphenomenalism - The Difference Between Sensing and Knowing - The Difference Between Sensing and Perceiving - Traditional Psychology of Space and Time - Sense-Certainty - Development of the Theme Through the Phenomenon of Gliding - The Spectrum of the Senses - The Spatial and Temporal Form of Sensing; Notes; Indexes.