The Mind and the Brain: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Mind and the Brain, credited to Alfred Binet, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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Librivox recording of The Mind and the Brain by Alfred Binet, F. Legge, editor. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. “This book is a prolonged effort to establish a distinction between what is called mind and what is called matter. Nothing is more simple than to realise this distinction when you do not go deeply into it; nothing is more difficult when you analyse it a little. At first sight, it seems impossible to confuse things so far apart as a thought and a block of stone; but on reflection this great contrast vanishes, and other differences have to be sought which are less apparent and of which one has not hitherto dreamed.” (from The Mind and the Brain) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Mind and the Brain
• Author credits: Alfred Binet
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 6:49:51

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• mind
• matter
• body
• soul
• Binet
• pyschology

Track guide

1. 01 - The Definition of Matter, Introduction — 8:20
2. 02 - The Definition of Matter, Our Knowledge of External Objects only Sensation — 21:54
3. 03 - The Definition of Matter, The Mechanical Theories of Matter are only Symbols — 22:20
4. 04 - The Definition of Matter, Answers to some Objections, and Summary — 10:16
5. 05 - The Definition of Mind, The Distinction Between Cognition and It's Object — 7:09
6. 06 - The Definition of Mind, Definition of Sensation — 26:20
7. 07 - The Definition of Mind - Definition of the Image — 16:46
8. 08 - The Definition of Mind, Definition of the Emotions — 12:00
9. 09 - Definition of the Consciousness - The Relation Subject-Object — 12:33
10. 10 - Definition of the Consciousness - Categories of the Understanding — 27:55
11. 11 - Definition of the Consciousness - The Separability of the Consciousness from its Object - Discussion of Idealism — 10:07
12. 12 - Definition of the Consciousness - The Separation of the Consciousness from its object - The Unconscious — 13:22
13. 13 - The Definition of Mind, Definitions of Psychology — 1:00:48
14. 14 - The Union of the Soul and the Body, The Mind Has an Incomplete Life — 20:18
15. 15 - The Union of the Soul and the Body, Spiritualism and Idealism — 15:58
16. 16 - The Union of the Soul and the Body, Materialism and Parallelism — 32:55
17. 17 - The Union of the Soul and the Body, Modern Theories — 14:02
18. 18 - The Union of the Soul and the Body, Conclusion — 41:44
19. 19 - The Union of the Soul and the Body, Recapitulation — 35:14

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