Psychological Investigations
By: José Ortega y Gasset ; translated by Jorge García-Gómez.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York and London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Truth; Psychology -- Philosophy
Notes: Bibliography: p. 247-254.
Translation of: Investigaciones psicológicas.
Table of contents: title: Translator's Introduction
pagenum: 7; title: Editor's Preface
pagenum: 23; title: Psychological Investigations
pagenum: 27; label: 1
title: Classicism and inquiry. The posing of the question. Nodal problems. Principles and "domestic disturbances." Systematic results in relation to the system previously in force. A general crisis and the arrival of new gods.
pagenum: 29; label: 2
title: On defining a mental phenomenon. Concerning the reform of science and the change of its scope. The "philosophical" problem of the special sciences. The mythological distinction between the inner and the outer. Phenomenal being and real being. Mental phenomenon and physical phenomenon. Color, pain, and self. Wundt's views. Subjectiivism, or the interpolation of the mental realm. Berkeley's opinion. The stone's being; my perception of the stone; my own self. Realities and phenomena: subjectivity and objectivity as separable and inseparable.
pagenum: 43; label: 3
title: Psychology as a science of mental realities. The effort to free ourselves from prejudice. Psychology is an empirical science, but a science nevertheless. Three kinds of laboratory. The relative independence of the sciences. Philosophy as a first and fundamental science. Truth as a concrete problem. The essential characteristics of the first science.
pagenum: 65; label: 4
title: Problem and doubt. What is a problem? Differentiated ignorance
pagenum: 79; label: 5
title: Conditions to be met by truth. Which reality may become a problem? The centaur. Objects and consciousness. A mutuality of Intuition. Strructural objects.
pagenum: 82; label: 6
title: Seeking a place for the object we call "being a problem." Incomplete expressions. Structural objects. The objects and the ego: an examination of the relations between them. "Being" as posited by the ego. Two different ways of understanding the relation between thinking and being: The Ancient World's resolution of the questions versus the Modern Age's. Gods in reciprocity.
pagenum: 93; label: 7
title: Word, sign and object. Nominal definition. Consciousness and soul. Object A and object A'. Science as the "system of living reason." Consciousness as reference. The "natural" and reflective attitudes of consciousness. Antithetical judgments. The object "judgment" and the object "being a problem." Why is a judgment a judgment? Absolute positivism versus partial positivism. Acts of presentation, imagination and mere meaning-intending. The relationships between such acts. Husserl's distinction.
pagenum: 106; label: 8
title: A description of appearances; objectivating acts. A critical examination of the four kinds of [theses about] the structure of judging. First kind: judging qua synthesis. Second kind: judging qua identification. Third kind: judging qua inherence. Pure grammar. Fourth kind: judging qua acknowledgment, whether positive or negative. The intentionality of consciousness.
pagenum: 125; label: 9
title: A review: truth and object.
pagenum: 138; label: 10
title: The sciences presuppose the existence of truth. The mission of philosophy. Philosophy and skepticism. The conflict between truths. The principle involved is devoid of sense.
pagenum: 142; label: 11
title: Two of Agrippa's tropes. Psychologism. Subjectivism. Sense[, nonsense, and counter-sense].
pagenum: 150; label: 12
title: Skepticism. Sense, identity, and counter-sense. Relativism today. Quod est veritas? Belier. The possibility of truth. Relativism and truth.
pagenum: 161; label: 13
title: What is the meaning of truth? Relativism and subjective constitution.
pagenum: 176; label: 14
title: The subjectivistic, relativistic stance belongs to the past. Truth and knowledge: the ambiguity of truth. The kernel of psychology. Kinds of truth. The "conditions" of subjectivity. The spotlight [of attention]. The ideal goal of psychology.
pagenum: 181; label: 15
title: Language. "Meaning." Sensation and perception. The law of sense-perceptual contamination. Assimilation. Perception and sensation. Description.
pagenum: 187; title: Appendices
pagenum: 201; title: Table
pagenum: 202; title: Toward a Philosophical Dictionary
pagenum: 203 |; title: Notes
pagenum: 245 |