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George Herbert Mead


The Philosophy
of the Act

Edited by Charles W. Morris

Chicago: University of Chicago (1938)

Part I
GENERAL ANALYSIS OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE ACT

  1. Stages in the act: preliminary statement
  2. The limits of the problematic
  3. The nature of scientific knowledge
  4. Consciousness and the unquestioned
  5. Fragments on the process of reflection
  6. History and the experimental method

Part II
PERCEPTUAL AND MANIPULATORY PHASES OF THE ACT

  1. Perspective theory of perception
  2. Mediate factors in perception
  3. The social factor in perception
  4. Perceptual error
  5. Perspective theory of objects
  6. The relativity of objects
  7. Perception and the spatiotemporal
  8. The perceptual model in science
  9. The experiential basis of natural science

Part III
COSMOLOGY

  1. Ontological assumptions
  2. Mechanical and teleological objects
  3. Form and environment
  4. Mechanism and contingency
  5. Passage, process, and permanence
  6. The process of mind in nature

Part IV
VALUE AND THE ACT

  1. Value and the consummatory phase of the act
  2. The aesthetic and the consummatory
  3. Moral behavior and reflective thinking
  4. Science and religion
  5. Religion and social values
  6. Back of our minds
  7. Experimentalism as a philosophy of history

Part V
SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAYS

  1. Fragments on whitehead
  2. Fragments on relativity
  3. Miscellaneous fragments

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