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One of the earliest contributions to the controversies about deism, A Letter to the Deists outlines Prideaux's belief that deism is the foundation of any religious belief, which set him apart from those writers who believed that deism led to atheism. It is bound with Charles Leslie, Short and Easie Method with the Deists. Samuel Jackson was alleged to have described Charles Leslie as 'a reasoner who was not to be reasoned against'. He was a pr...

Chandler produced numerous biblically-based attacks on the deists and a large number of sermons both individual and collected. In Reflections he attacks the deists and anyone who doubted the truth of revealed religion.

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Emphasizing the influence of the mind on the body, Tuckey was among the first to describe the potential therapeutic effects of hypnotic suggestion on a wide range of diseases.

Spencer's popular account of his leading sociological doctrines. Its publication marked the emergence of Spencer as the popular philosopher of the Victorian age. It was a highly influential work in terms of the impetus it gave to the academic pursuit of the new science of sociology and it also played an important role in shaping the outlook of many thoughtful lay persons in the Victorian reading public.

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Christianity not Mysterious was written in response to John Locke's The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695). Toland asserted that there was nothing in religion that was above reason and that no Christian doctrine could properly be called mysterious. This book brought the controversies surrounding deism, atheism, and other forms of dissenting theological inquiry out into the open in quite a spectacular way. It attracted a very large number of...

This text consists of Wilhelm Wundt's developed point of view on topics such as the the quality of sensation, the nature of feeling, the relation of feeling to will, consciousness, the develpment of attention, the temporal course of ideas, dreams, instincts and voluntary activity.

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This anthology focuses on the relationship of Wittgenstein's philosophy to currents and controversies in the contemporary philosophical scene. Most of these essays appear for the first time, some written specifically for this volume.

A revolutionary turning point in the history of psychology. Introducing action into psychology as a category of analysis in its own right, Bain was the first to bring the new physiology of movement into conjunction with an associationistic account of mind.

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The classic modern statement of the dual-aspect monist approach to the mind/body relation in which mind and body are viewed as different aspects of one and the same series of psychophysical events. In arguing that mental and physical terms are not intertranslatable, Lewes transferred the domain of mind/body discourse from metaphysics to scientific language and provided psychology with what is still the best argument against extreme reductionis...

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The works reprinted in this invaluable newly-gathered collection cover the length of Robertson's career, from his student days in 1737 to his closing years in 1789, and show his intellectual and stylistic evolution. They add depth, perspective, and complexity to our sense of Robertson's intentions and final achievement. Part I of Robertson's contains his lesser known writings and speeches, several of them previously unpublished. Subjects explo...

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Hudson's Introduction is a series of lectures on Spencer: his earlier work, preparation for the Synthetic Philosophy, the Spencerian sociology, Spencer's ethical system, and the religious aspects of Spencerian philosophy. Also included is a biographical sketch and a chronological list of Spencer's principal writings. The work serves as an excellent introduction to Spencer.