Key Terms 1
Key Terms 2
Important Individuals
Differentiation
Miscellaneous
100
The question of the distinction between mental and physical qualities.
What is mind-body problem?
100
The doctrine that natural processes are mechanically determined and capable of explanation by the laws of physics and chemistry.
What is mechanism?
100
An empiricist who believed that all mental activity could be explained by association and no knowledge was present at birth, everything is learned through the senses.
Who is James Hartley?
100
Father and son empiricists.
Who is James Mill and John Stuart Mill?
100
A man who known as "The calculating engine" because of his unusual gift of intelligence and mathematics.
Who is Charles Babbage?
200
The idea that an external object (a stimulus) can bring about an involuntary response.
What is reflex action theory?
200
Elemental ideas that arise from sensation and reflection.
What is simple ideas?
200
He is a philosopher who accepted the idea that the mind and body influence each other rather than the mind only influencing the body.
Who is Rene Descartes?
200
Association relies on time and place vs association relies on likeness.
What is contiguity vs resemblance?
200
The mechanical time keeping device that was seen as a model for the physical universe.
What is a clock?
300
Sophisticated mechanical device built to imitate human movement and action.
What is automata?
300
Derived ideas that are compounded of simple ideas and thus can be analyzed or reduced to their simpler components.
What is complex ideas?
300
An empiricist who was concerned primarily with cognitive functioning and recognized experiences as being derived from either sensation or reflection.
Who is John Locke?
300
The idea that everything is caused by past events vs. understanding complexities by breaking them down into simpler pieces.
What is determinism vs. reductionism?
300
The man who, upon his death wished to be (and was) left until he began to decompose. His reasoning was that there is no true way, apart from purification, to be sure someone is dead. He did not want to be buried before his time!
Who is George Berkeley?
400
The notion that knowledge results from linking or associating simple ideas to form complex ideas.
What is association?
400
The notion that complex ideas formed from simple ideas take on new qualities. The combination of the mental elements creates something greater than or different from the sum of the original elements.
What is creative synthesis?
400
An empiricist who believed the mind was a machine that was acted on by external stimuli.
Who is James Mill?
400
Explanations for natural and worldly phenomena that are objectively observable vs explanations of the universe solely in physical terms.
What is positivism vs materialism?
400
The mechanical machine that brought wonder to Paris, France in the eighteenth century.
What is the defecating duck?
500
Characteristics such as size and shape that exist in an object whether or not we perceive them.
What is primary quality?
500
Characteristics such as color and odor that exist in our perception of the object.
What is secondary quality?
500
An empiricist who came up with the idea that complex ideas are greater than the sum of the individual parts because of new qualities taken on that were not present in the original parts.
Who is John Stuart Mill?
500
(Experience + observation) vs (observation only.)
What is empiricism vs positivism?
500
The French philosopher who suffered from dementia and at one time took a knife and slit his throat because of an argument that was taking place.
Who is Auguste Comte?
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