SOURCE: "The Philosophy of Samuel Alexander (II.)," in Mind: A Quarterly Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 194, April, 1940, pp. 136-49.

In the following essay, which comprises the second installment of his analysis of Alexander's philosophy, Stout discusses Alexander's distinction between the ways objects and mental processes are experienced, his treatment of the knowledge of other minds, and his conceptions of space-time, intuitive knowledge, and the emergent quality of nature.

Enjoyment and Contemplation.

Alexander draws a hard and fast distinction between the way in which we experience objects and the way in which we experience our own mental (i.e., subjective) processes. We are said to enjoy the mental processes and to contemplate objects. Let no one suppose that this is only a new way of naming a distinction which can be readily understood and easily verified. At first I myself made this mistake. I took it to be in...