Chapter 5 Flashcards
How did Thomas Hobbs disagree w Descarte?
Hobbs disagree that innate ideal exist
Where did Hibbs believe ideas come from?
Ideas come from your sense
Who convince Hobbs everything in nature is matter and motion?
Gaileo
What did Hobbs believe about Free Will?
Free will is an not real, all out actions and Choices are physically caused
What did Hobbs believe about the decisions we made ?
The decisions we make are based on the sensations that wins
What is appetite according to Hobbs?
seek our pleasant sensations
Who believed things exist even with out the mind?
Pierre Gassendi
Who was the founder of British Empiricism ?
Thomas Hobbs
What is the French Sensationalist?
Emphasis the importance of sensations in explaining conscious experience
” if you conclude everything is physical you will be humble and have more tenderness for nature”
Julien de la Mettrice - French sensationalist
What type of monist is Julien de la mettrice ?
Materialism- physical monism
What is Empiricism ?
primary data knowledge comes from your sense
What did Claude Helvetius believe?
knowledge comes from your sense
What kind of Dualist was John Locke?
Physical world/ experience
What is Tabula rasa?
mind is blank slate that experience write on
What did John Locke believe simple ideas were like?
He believed they were like minute corpuscles- can be further divided but can rearranged things ideas
Who created the paradox of the basin?
John Locke Hot Cold Warm
Who described desensitization to treat phobia but did not name it ?
John Locke
Who developed analytic geometry?
Descrates, he did this by viewing a fly on the wall
What were the four rules to search to truth?
- never expect anything as true unless there is no possible doubt that is is true
- divide philosophical problem into many steps as possible
- Think in an orderly fashion, starting with the easiest t part to understand
- make your conclusions, examples, complete
According to desecrates where did innate ideas come from?
They come God
Ergo Sum means?
I think, therefore I am
Who discovered ventricles?
Descartes
Where Did Descartes believe the mind and self was found?
in the pineal gland
What kind of duelist was Descartes?
Mind give us existence and body is separate because you can imagine not having body but not vice versa
What did Berkeley believe about our senses?
we use our sense to perceive God ideas
Berkeley believed what was leading to collapse of religion morality?
thought that materialism and collapse of scholasticism
who said “ to be is to be perceived”
Berkeley
What kind of monist was Berekley ?
idealist- only mind exists
Who believed nerves are solid like a guitar string?
David Harley
What did David Harley believe about vibrations?
Excessive vibrations are pain
Mild vibrations are pleasure
What did David Harley believe about sensations ?
Sensations experience together are remembered together
What kind of monist was David Hume?
A materialist
What was David Hume take on religion ?
Religion has less effect on our behavior than we think it does
Hume believed that are idea are arranged by ?
Our ideas are arranged by association
What did Jame Mill believe about sensations?
Sensations and ideas are linked by association
According to James Mill, what depended of the strength of the association?
vividness of sensation
frequent of the associations
Who proposed mental chemistry?
John Stuart Mill
What is mental chemistry?
simple ideas come together and create something like a chemical reaction you cant separate the ideas
What were the law of associations that Hume came up with?
Law of Resemblance
Law of Contiguity
Law of Cause and Effect
Who was the first fledged psychologist?
Alexander bain
What was Alexander bain Goal?
describes what happens physiology with mental and behavioral events
What is positivism?
Equating knowledge with empirical observations
What was Comte Utopia?
society based on science, the scientist would serve people
Who wanted to make scientism as a religion?
Comte
Who lead to operational definitions?
Mach
what were the two laws that alexander bain added to the laws of association?
law of compound
law of construction
Who came up with the idea of”everything we do is related to growth in the cell junctions”?
Alexander bain
