{"product_id":"2940012044105","title":"TIME AND FREE WILL: An essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure. (Worth every penny!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE INTENSITY OF PSYCHIC STATES\u003cbr\u003eQuantitative differences applicable to magnitudes but not to intensities; Attempt to estimate intensities by objective causes or atomic movements; Different kinds of intensities; Deepseated psychic states: desire hope joy and sorrow;  Aesthetic feelings: grace beauty  music poetry art; Moral feelings pity;; Conscious states involving physical symptoms: muscular effort  attention and muscular tension; Violent emotions : rage  fear; Affective sensations: pleasure and pain  disgust; Representative sensations : and external causes  sensation of sound  intensity pitch and muscular effort  sensations of heat and cold  sensations of pressure and weight  sensation of light  photometric experiments  Delboeuf's experiments; Psychophysics: Weber and Fechner  Delboeuf  the mistake of regarding sensations as magnitudes; Intensity in  representative  affective states intensity and multiplicity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MULTIPLICITY OF CONSCIOUS STATES; THE IDEA OF DURATION\u003cbr\u003eNumber and its units  number and accompanying intuition of space; Two kinds of multiplicity of material objects and conscious states  impenetrability of matter  homogeneous time and pure' duration; Space and its contents  empirical theories of space  intuition of empty homogeneous medium peculiar to man  time as homogeneous medium reducible to space; Duration succession and space  pure duration;; Is duration measurable ?; Is motion measurable ?; Paradox of the Eleatics; Duration and simultaneity; Velocity and simultaneity; Space alone homogeneous duration and succession belong to conscious mind; Two kinds of multiplicity qualitative and quantitative  superficial psychic states invested with discontinuity of their external causes  these eliminated real duration is felt as a quality; The two aspects of the self on the surface well-defined conscious states deeper down states which interpenetrate and form organic whole  solidifying influence of language on sensation  analysis distorts the feelings  deeper conscious states forming a part of ourselves; Problems soluble only by recourse to the concrete and living self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ORGANIZATION OF CONSCIOUS STATES; FREE WILL\u003cbr\u003eDynamism and mechanism; Two kinds of determinism; Physical determinism : and molecular theory of matter  and conservation of energy  if conservation universal physiological and nervous phenomena necessitated but perhaps not conscious states  but is principle of con conversation universal ?  it may not apply to living beings and conscious states  idea of its universality depends on confusion between concrete duration and abstract time;Psychological determinism; implies associationist conception of mind  this involves defective conception of self; The free act: freedom as expressing the fundamental self; Real duration and contingency: could our act have been different ?  geometrical representation of process of coming to a decision  the fallacies to which it leads determinists and libertarians; Real duration and prediction : conditions of Paul's prediction of Peter's action (I) being Peter  knowing already his final act g the three fallacies involved  astronomical prediction depends on hypothetical acceleration of movements  duration cannot be thus accelerated; Real duration and causality : the law \" same antecedents same consequents\"  causality as regular succession  causality as prefiguring: two kinds  prefiguring as mathematical preexistence; implies nonduration but we endure and therefore may be free   prefiguring as having idea of future act to be realized by effort; does not involve determinism  determinism results from confusing these two senses; Freedom real but indefinable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONCLUSION\u003cbr\u003eStates of self perceived through forms borrowed from external world; Intensity as quality; Duration as qualitative multiplicity; No duration in the external world; Extensity and duration must be separated; Only the fundamental self free; Kant's mistaken idea of time as homogeneous  hence he put the self which is free outside both space and time; Duration is heterogeneous relation of psychic state to act is unique and act is free.","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168499712240,"sku":"2940012044105","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012044105_p0.jpg?v=1763552206","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012044105","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}