Symbolism and reality : a study in the nature of mind / by Charles W. Morris ; with a preface by Achim Eschbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Charles W. (Charles William), 1903-1979.

Series:

Foundations of semiotics ; v. 15.

Foundations of semiotics, 0168-2555 ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mind and body.

Reality.

Symbolism (Psychology).

Philosophy and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Charles W. Morris' doctoral thesis Symbolism and Reality, written in 1925 at Chicago under George H. Mead, has never before been published. It sets out to prove that thought and mind are not entities, nor even processes involving a psychical substance distinguishable from the rest of reality, but are explicable as the functioning of parts of the experience as symbols to an organism of other parts of experience. Being then the symbolic portion of experience, the psychical or mental can neither be sharply opposed to the rest of experience nor identical with the whole of experience.

Contents:

pt. 1. Foreword

pt. 2. The thesis of symbolism

pt. 3. Some psychological and biological considerations

pt. 4. The logic of symbolism

pt. 5. Giveness and reality

pt. 6. Philosophy and civilization.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1925.

"Writings by Charles William Morris": p. [107]-122.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-32806-2

9786613328069

90-272-7692-7

OCLC:

769341984