The Analysis of the Mind by Bertrand Russell is a collection of 15 lectures he delivered in 1920. Russell was a highly reputed philosopher, mathematician, and social critic, and would go on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
These lectures were based on a wholly new approach to exploring the relation between mind and matter.
Lecture I: Recent Criticisms of ‘Consciousness’
Lecture II: Instinct and Habit
Lecture III: Desire and Feeling
Lecture IV: Influence of Past History on Present Occurrences in Living
Lecture V: Psychological and Physical Causal Laws
Lecture VI: Introspection
Lecture VII: The Definition of Perception
Lecture VIII: Sensations and Images
Lecture IX: Memory
Lecture X: Words and Meaning
Lecture XI: General Ideas and Thought
Lecture XII: Belief
Lecture XIII: Truth and Falsehood
Lecture XIV: Emotions and Will
Lecture XV: Characteristics of Mental Phenomena
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