Samuel Alexander OM (6 January 1859 – 13 September 1938) was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college. Read full biography of Samuel Alexander →
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a... →
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of... →
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the... →
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees... →
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander OM (6 January 1859 – 13 September 1938) was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college.