NEW ADDITION (11/27/05): For past assessments of the period 1876-1920 in the pages of Mind, see the following articles from the 50^th and 100^th Anniversary issues of the journal:

≥50 Years of Mind≤ by W.R. Sorley

[Mind, 35(140), Oct 1926, pp.409-418]

≥A Hundred Years of Mind≤ by D.W. Hamlyn

[Mind, 85(337), Jan 1976, pp.1-5]

≥George Croom Robertson: Editor, 1876-1891≤ by Anthony Quinton

[Mind, 85(337), Jan 1976, pp.6-16]

≥G.F Stoutπs Editorship of Mind (1892-1920)≤ by J.A. Passmore

[Mind, 85(337), Jan 1976, pp.17-36]

Also, the links below contain complete tables of contents of the journal, MIND, from its inception in 1876 to the end of the tenure of the second Editor, G.F. Stout, in 1920. These resources are provided for reference by scholars interested in contributing to the FALL2005 SYMPOSIUM currently being planned At VIRGINIA TECH on the contexts of work in this journal in its early years.

For your assistance in finding information of interest, here is a brief content analysis of the volumes cited below:

Perennial Topics in MIND

(persistently recurrent from 1876 to 1920, in most or all volumes):

a) Logic, Mathematics, & Statistics

b) Morality and Ethics

c) Sensation and Perception

d) History of Philosophy

e) Time

f) Psychological Experimentation and Laboratories

g) Will

h) Emotion, Pleasure and Pain

i) Hypothesis and Inference

j) Empiricism and Idealism

k) Imagination

l) Truth

Occasional Topics in MIND

(appearing in several volumes from 1876 to 1920)

a) Linguistics & Philology: 1^st Ser: vols. 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 13, 16. 2^nd Ser: 1, 2, 8, 13, 14, 19.

b) Foundations of Psychology: 1^st Ser: vols. 1, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 16. 2^nd Ser: 2, 3, 7, 8.

c) Education: 1^st Ser: 2, 3. 2^nd Ser: 15.

d) Aesthetics: 1^st Ser: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16. 2^nd Series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 19, 22, 29.

e) Status of Philosophy: 1^st Ser: 1, 2, 3, 4, 15. 2^nd Ser: 13.

f) Economics: 1^st Ser: 6. 2^nd Ser: 16.

g) Religion: 1^st Ser: 8, 12, 16. 2^nd Ser: 3, 4, 6, 15, 16, 17, 27, 28.

NOTE: Several volumes from 1910 on (2^nd Ser: 20+) also feature discussions of Vedantic philosophy.

h) History and Historiography: 1^st Ser: 10, 11. 2^nd Ser: 7.

i) Mysticism & Alternative Philosophy: 1^st Ser: 11, 14. 2^nd Ser: 4, 9, 14, 21, 22.

j) Disciplinary Demarcation: 1^st Ser: 1, 13. 2^nd Ser: 12, 29.

k) Sociology: 1^st Ser: several, including especially 13. 2^nd Ser: 1,5, 8, 9, 10, 28.

l) Evolution: 1^st Ser: 14, 16. 2^nd Ser: 3, 4, 5, 9, 19, 21, 22, 28.

m) Humanism: 2^nd Ser: 13, 14, 17, 19, 20.

n) Psychoanalysis: 2^nd Ser: 23, 29.

FILES

MIND, SERIES 1, V.1 (1876)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.2 (1877)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.3 (1878)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.4 (1879)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.5 (1880)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.6 (1881)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.7 (1882)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.8 (1883)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.9 (1884)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.10 (1885)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.11 (1886)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.12 (1887)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.13 (1888)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.14 (1889)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.15 (1890)

MIND, SERIES 1, V.16 (1891)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.1 (1892)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.2 (1893)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.3 (1894)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.4 (1895)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.5 (1896)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.6 (1897)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.7 (1898)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.8 (1899)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.9 (1900)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.10 (1901)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.11 (1902)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.12 (1903)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.13 (1904)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.14 (1905)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.15 (1906)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.16 (1907)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.17 (1908)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.18 (1909)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.19 (1910)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.20 (1911)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.21 (1912)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.22 (1913)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.23 (1914)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.24 (1915)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.25 (1916)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.26 (1917)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.27 (1918)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.28 (1919)

MIND, SERIES 2, V.29 (1920)