The Analysis Of Mind (1922) by Bertrand Russell (PDF)

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⭐Granted, this is my first reading of one of Bertrand Russell’s works, and “The Analysis of Mind” is an interesting reading, regardless of the impression of it being outdated (1921). However, at the time of the publication, I’d say that it’s quite insightful. Now, from reading, he is, quite right, saying that we take things for granted and focus on being more conscious than lulling ourselves into laziness, generally speaking.The book is broken into fifteen “lectures” (rather than “chapters”) with each can be a slightly dry read, but with care and patience, one can grasp what the author’s saying. It’ll force one to think and ponder on the author’s thoughts. Personally, I found a lecture on “Truth and Falsehood” to be quite fascinating.While the Kindle version can be an unreadable in several area, it’s still a good read as one gets used to it (at least, to me anyway).

⭐When you read this concise book, you mind will boggle in the begining, but then it will have all the clarity you need. Know how you think, why you think in a certain way, and why your logic proves to be flawed. A very dense book requiring a lot of patient and slow reading.

⭐A bit dry at times but full of deep thoughts on the workings of he mind. Favorite quote on evolving every day was “Any of us confronted by a forgotten letter written some years ago will be astonished to find how much more foolish our opinions were than we had remembered them as being”.

⭐Why is it that page numbers are so often left off when a book is converted to electronic format? Page numbers help people to have conversations about books-you know the old dictum “Are we on the same page?”. If one intends to use a book like this for academic purposes, it is impossible without page numbers.As far as the other formatting errors suggested below, none appear when reading via the Kindle software for Mac.

⭐I am now 83 old and have read Bertrand Russell”s writings since my colege years. His words and content flow suavely into my mind since then . I have taken even paragraphs containing the essence of his thoughts in any one subject to quote in conferences I have proferrred in my years as a college professor.

⭐It takes some focus to follow some of his thoughts, but the challenge is rewarding in total.

⭐Very interesting but a bit hard to read.

⭐The content of the book is great, Bertrand Russell is a genius; however, this specific book has a font size that is too small. I would order this book, but I would order it from a publisher that has larger print in their books.

⭐The “Digireads” edition is a digitised reprint of the original book, and the quality is not very good: there are frequent typos, many cases of incorrect or missing punctuation, no index, small margins, and footnotes have been dumped in the middle of the page rather than properly typeset. It’s readable, in the same way a printout of a webpage is readable, but not really acceptable quality for a book.That said, the content of the book is excellent. This is an early statement of Russell’s neutral monism: the view that there is only one fundamental kind of stuff, that this basic stuff is neither mental nor physical (it is “neutral”), and that mind and matter are just different organisations of this same stuff. This is an interesting and important view about the relation between mind and matter, and Russell is its clearest exponent (which is not to say he is always completely clear).Russell developed the view in greater detail in two later books: The Analysis of Matter (1927) and An Outline of Philosophy (1927). The version presented in The Analysis of Mind is subtly different, in that here Russell describes the basic neutral entities from which all else is constituted as “sensations”, inviting the charge that his view is just a disguised form of phenomenalism (or “mentalism”, “idealism”). In later work he was more careful to pre-empt this charge, describing the basic neutral entities as “events” rather than “sensations”. Whether this leads to a substantively different view, or just a more cleverly disguised form of phenomenalism, is up for debate.Don’t expect an easy read, because Russell is writing here for an academic audience. The Problems of Philosophy (1912) is his classic introductory book. An Outline of Philosophy (1927) is more accessible than The Analysis of Mind, and a better introduction to his neutral monism.

⭐Do not buy this books if you are sensitive to typos, because they are everywhere in this book. Also, the margins are very badly spaced; the text disappears into the spine of the book, where’s there is a large margin between the text and the left-edge of the page, making it really annoying to read as one has to really bend the pages to read the text on the right-edge of the page. This book is by no means basic or easy to read. I am a seasoned reader and this books is just abominable to read. I find myself wanting to stop reading almost as soon as I start. I don’t know if this book is just written really badly, or if the subject matter is just exceptionally difficult (this was written in 1914, so psychological science was still an its incipient stages and therefore a lot of current terminology is not known and therefore there are a lot of new terms being introduced only for the purpose of this book). I have read a few of Russell’s books before, and I have found them to be some of the best books that I have read, but this one is a huge disappointment. I am 107 pages in, so of course I’ll finish it, but I have learned almost nothing from it except how not to write and how not to present an idea coherently.

⭐This was free of charge. I used to borrow books from a local library, but have recently begun to get something to read from Amazon when I have time. I enjoy reading e-books including this one. Thank you.

⭐Not good bedtime reading unless you are a geek of sorts but Bertrand Russell can make us think about things in a different way.

⭐This version is fine. It has a digital index, all the lectures are there, not many transcription mistakes so far

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