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LECTURE IV. 



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ORGANISM AND MECHANISM 107 



§ 1. Is Organism More than Mechanism?, 107 — §2. Chemical 

 and Physical Laws Apply to Organisms, 110 — §3. Some Diffi- 

 culties in the Application of Physical and Chemical Formulse 

 to Organisms, 113 — §4. Criticism of Mechanistic Descrip- 

 tions of Everyday Functions, 117 — §5. Criticism of Mechan- 

 istic Descriptions of Animal Behaviour, 122 — §6. Difficulty of 

 Applying Mechanistic Formulae to Development, 126 — § 7. 

 Difficulty of Applying Mechanistic Formula) to Organic Evo- 

 lution, 131 — § 8. Answers to Criticisms, 135. 



LECTURE V. 



THE UNIQUENESS OF LIFE 143 



§ 1. The Inadequacy of a Mechanistic Description of Organ- 

 isms Is a Negative Conclusion, 143 — § 2. The Problem: Vital- 

 ism or Mechanism, or Neither?, 144 — §3. Are Organisms 

 Unique in Virtue of their Complexity?, 147 — § 4. Have Organ- 

 isms a Monopoly of Some Peculiar Energy or Energies?, 140 — 

 §5. Is there a Non-perceptual Vital Agency resident in 

 Organisms and Operative in distinctively Vital Activities?, 

 153 — §6. Descriptive or Methodological Vitalism: the * Bio- 

 logical ' View, 150— § 7. Speculative, 103—1 8. Retrospect, 166 

 — § 0. Why Cannot the Controversy between Mechanistic and 

 Vitalistic Theory be Ended?, 169. 



LECTURE VL 



ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 175 



§1. What Is Behaviour?, 175 — §2 Diverse Views as to 

 Animal Behaviour, 177 — §3. Activities of Unicellular Organ- 

 isms, 179 — § 4. Special Case of Shell-building among Are- 

 naceous Foraminifera, 185 — § 5. Reflex Actions, 186 — § 6. 

 Tropisms, 192 — § 7. Non-intelligent Experimentation, 195 — 

 § 8. Instinctive Behaviour, 198 — § 9. Theories of Instinct, 

 203— § 10. Evidence of Intelligent Behaviour, 211—$ 11. Sec- 

 ondary Simplifications of Behaviour, 215 — § 12. Rational Con- 

 duct, 217 — § 13. General Impressions of Animal Behaviour, 

 217. 



LECTURE VIL 



THE PROBLEM OF BODY AND MIND 227 



§ 1. The Approach to the Problem. 227— § 2. What Must Be 

 Recognised from the Biological Side, 230— § 3. What Must 

 Be Recognised from the Humanist Side, 234 — §4. Various 

 Theories of the Relation of ' Mind ' and ' Body ', 236— § 5. 

 Monistic Speculation along the Line of the Double-Aspect 

 or Correlation Theory, 251. 



