Psychology: Briefer Course is William James's abridged textbook version of his Principles of Psychology, prepared for classroom use. It presents psychology as a natural science and includes added chapters on the senses, while leaving out much metaphysical and polemical material. It offers a clear, accessible introduction to James's psychological thought.
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(etext transcriber's note)
BRIEFER COURSE
PSYCHOLOGY
BY WILLIAM JAMES
Professor of Psychology in Harvard University
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1892
Copyright, 1892,
BY
HENRY HOLT & CO.
Robert Drummond,
Electrotyper and Printer,
New York.
PREFACE.
In preparing the following abridgment of my larger work, the Principles of
Psychology, my chief aim has been to make it more directly available for class-room use. For this purpose I have omitted several whole chapters and rewritten others. I have left out all the polemical and historical matter, all the metaphysical discussions and purely speculative passages, most of the quotations, all the book-references, and (I trust) all the impertinences, of the
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