Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect (New Edition) (Barbour-Page Lectures, University of Virginia, 1927)

Whitehead's Response To The Epistemological Challenges Of Hume And Kant In Its Most Vivid And Direct Form.--publisher's Description. Kinds Of Symbolism -- Symbolism And Perception -- On Methodology -- Fallibility Of Symbolism -- Definition Of Symbolism -- Experience As Activity -- Language -- Presentational Immediacy -- Perceptive Experience -- Symbolic Reference In Perceptive Experience -- Mental And Physical -- Rôles Of Sense-data And Space In Presentational Immediacy -- Objectification -- Hume On Causal Efficacy -- Kant And Causal Efficacy -- Direct Perception Of Causal Efficacy -- Primitiveness Of Causal Efficacy -- The Intersection Of The Modes Of Perception -- Localization -- The Contrast Between Accurate Definition And Importance -- Conclusion -- Uses Of Symbolism. Alfred North Whitehead. Reprint. Originally Published: Charlottesville : University Of Virginia, 1927. Frontmatter CHAPTER I (page 1) 1. Kinds of Symbolism (page 1) 2. Symbolism and Perception (page 2) 3. On Methodology (page 5) 4. Fallibility of Symbolism (page 6) 5. Definition of Symbolism (page 7) 6. Experience as Activity (page 9) 7. Language (page 10) 8. Presentational Immediacy (page 13) 9. Perceptive Experience (page 16) 10. Symbolic Reference in Perceptive Experience (page 18) 11. Mental and Physical (page 20) 12. Roles of Sense-Data and Space in Presentational Immediacy (page 21) 13. Objectification (page 25) CHAPTER II (page 30) 1. Hume on Causal Efficacy (page 30) 2. Kant and Causal Efficacy (page 37) 3. Direct Perception of Causal Efficacy (page 39) 4. Primitiveness of Causal Efficacy (page 43) 5. The Intersection of the Mode of Perception (page 49) 6. Localization (page 53) 7. The Contrast Between Accurate Definition and Importance (page 56) 8. Conclusion (page 59) CHAPTER III (page 60) Uses of Symbolism (page 60) Whitehead's Response To The Epistemological Challenges Of Hume And Kant In Its Most Vivid And Direct Form.--publisher's Description. Kinds Of Symbolism -- Symbolism And Perception -- On Methodology -- Fallibility Of Symbolism -- Definition Of Symbolism -- Experience As Activity -- Language -- Presentational Immediacy -- Perceptive Experience -- Symbolic Reference In Perceptive Experience -- Mental And Physical -- Rôles Of Sense-data And Space In Presentational Immediacy -- Objectification -- Hume On Causal Efficacy -- Kant And Causal Efficacy -- Direct Perception Of Causal Efficacy -- Primitiveness Of Causal Efficacy -- The Intersection Of The Modes Of Perception -- Localization -- The Contrast Between Accurate Definition And Importance -- Conclusion -- Uses Of Symbolism. Alfred North Whitehead. Reprint. Originally Published: Charlottesville : University Of Virginia, 1927.