Chapter 3: eighteenth and nineteenth century precursors to a scientific psychology: 1700-1850 Flashcards
wat was de eerste gedocumenteerde term psychologie
croatian marko maulié around 1500
wanneer eerste engelse boek met psychologie in de titel
john broughton in 1700
wanneer ontstond het process van western individualization
ongeveer het einde van de middeleeuwen: 500-1500 (dus in 1500)
welke factoren hielpen met de individualisation van western society
- increased complexity of society
- increased control by the state
- individuality promoted by christianity
- mirrors, books and letters
hoe kan increased complexity of society leiden tot meer individualisation
meer urbanization and indistrialization put people into more complex and competitive social networks, in which everyone struggled to remain dignity and meaning
wat zei foucault
dat increased control by the state leidde tot individualisatie: doordat de state meer controle hadden hadden mensen de behoefte om meer op te vallen in de crowd
wat was individualisation promoted by christianity
each persons private state of faith and relation to god is the essence of piety
hoe beinvloeden mirrors, books and letters de individualisation
mirrors made people more aware of themselves and the impressions they leave on others. printing further enhanced the interest and fascination for others. novel: deeper detail to the depiction of others
who was the first philosopher after the ancient greeks to value new and independent thinking (whilst others clung to aristotle and the church)
descartes
wanneer was descartes er
rond 1600
aristotle did not believe in the existence of …. but he did consider….
ideal forms
reason and deduction as pillars of theoretical knowledge, a conviction embraced by the church and nearly all philosophers up to and including descartes
welke twee dingen van empiricisme waren belangrijk voor science
inductive reasoning and observation
wat zei aristotle over observation
observation is a source of knowledge
aristotle was the first to publish treatises entirely based on careful observation
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baconian science =
inductive reasoning (generalisations from observations)
wanneer was john locke
1630-1740
empiricism=
the conviction that there is no innate knowledge and that all knowledge arises from sensory experience and induction. the human mind is a blank state
locke’s writings were rather….
cautious: he was aware of the limits of perception
materisch empiricisme=
een stroming binnen de filosofie die de mentale processen herleidt tot materie
idealistisch empiricisme=
benadrukken de afhankelijkheid van de werkelijkheid van het bewustzijn
kijken in schrift naar tijdlijn!!!
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wanneer was berkeley vooral actief
rond 1700
wat was de stroming die geassocieerd is met berkeley
idealism
wat was berkeley: empiricist of rationalist?
hij was een empiricist, but seems like a rationalist at times
Hume’s principle of contiguity=
because causes are never observed directly, we derive them from experiencing the co-occurence of phenomena.
rationalism = (5 kenmerken: main idee, source of knowledge, research method, applications & persons)
- existence of innate knowledge
- reason is the source of knowledge
- main research method = deductive reasoning
- main applications: logic and mathematics
- plato & descartes
empiricism=
- no innate knowledge (blank slate)
- perception is the source of knowledge
- main research methods: observation, experimentation, inductive reasoning
- main applications: natural sciences
- natural philosophers, Locke, Berkely, Hume
idealism =
view that human knowledge is a construction of the mind and does not neccessarily correspond to an outside world
wat zei Hume over de observatie van causes
because causes are never observed directly, we derive them from experiencing the co-occurence of phenomena.
wat zei berkeley over perception
All that we can be certain of is our perception: we don’t know if a table is actually there, we just know that we see it. Can it be our own mind? No, not in our own power. Therefore: other Will or Spirit that produces our perceptions
if the soul entirely consists of impressions acquired through observation, then we have no guarantee that the contents of the soul are a faithful rendition of the world.
Hume: we associate by….
familiarity. because situations resemble each other, we assume they come from the same entity in the world
Hume en Kant: who reacted to who
Kant reageerde op Hume. dus hume was eerst, daarna kant
wat wilde kant bereiken met zijn reactie op hume
dat newton protected zou worden van hume