ANALYSIS OF SENSATIONS AND THE RELATION OF THE PHYSICAL TO THE PSYCHICAL BY DR ERNST MACH EMERITUS PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA TRANSLATED FROM THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION BY C. M. WILLIAMS REVISED AND SUPPLEMENTED FROM THE BY SYDNEY WATERLOW, M.A. CHICAGO AND LONDON THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY TH TRANSLATOR'S NOTE HIS book is not so much a new edition of the English translation of Professor Mach's Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations, which was published in 1897,1 but is, as the more comprehensive title indicates, an almost entirely new book. The Contributions originally appeared in 1886. The English translation of 1897 contained a certain amount of new matter, most of which was embodied by Professor Mach in his second edition (1900). Since then there have been three more editions: two of them, the third and the fifth, containing important changes and additions of such extent that the fifth edition, of which this translation is now offered to the English-speaking public, is a book nearly twice as long as the original English translation. It may therefore be convenient to mention here the principal respects in which this book differs from the translation of 1897. Six chapters are entirely new, namely, Chapter III., on "My Relation to Richard Avenarius and other Thinkers"; Chapter V., on "Physics and Biology: Causality and Teleology"; Chapter VIII., on "The Will"; Chapter IX., on "Biologico-teleological Considerations as to Space"; Chapter XI., on "Sensation, 1 Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations, by Dr. Ernst Mach. Translated by C. M. Williams. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1897. |