Chapter 1 Flashcards
Rene Descartes year?
(1596-1650)
Who was Rene Descartes?
French philosopher and scientist
What was Rene Descartes interested in?
Interested in how the mind and body interact.
In applying scientific knowledge to everyday concerns.
In classical conditioning about 200 yrs before Pavlov.
What did Rene Descartes write?
Treatise on man: human body just a machine and meditations on first philosophy.
What is the Descartes reflex arc?
No conscious thoughts required, automatic and mechanical (like a reflex)
Year of birth and death of Thomas Hobbes?
1588-1679
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
British philosopher who viewed humans and animals as biological machines consisting of matter and motion.
Argued that the mind is nothing more than the product of a mechanical brain
Materialism definition?
The view that there is only matter, and that is all that is needed to explain the mind.
(Thomas Hobbes)
Francis bacon year of birth anddeath?
1561-1626
Who is Francis bacon?
Father of British empiricism.
Definition of method of induction?
Who introduced it?
Examine specific cases to discover general rules.
Thomas Hobbes.
Definition of doctrine of the idols?
Who founded it?
Assertion that the human mind is best with biases that led it to predictable errors.
Thomas Hobbes.
John Locke year?
1632-1704
What is John Locke known for?
published an essay concerning human understanding in which he introduced the term “ Tabula Rasa” (1690)
two types of senses in Lockes view: outer senses (sensation) and inner senses (reflections).
What is associationism?
& who founded it?
Theory that knowledge developsas simple ideas combining to form complex ideas.
How knowledge develops first sensory experiences then reflection.
