Review
Something that is held prior to examining the evidence. A Latin phrase meaning "from the earlier".
What is a priori?
An image that can be seen two different ways and illustrates how perception is shaped by aspects of the perceiver's prior cognition rather than merely determined by the raw sensory input itself.
What is a bistable image?
This theory has been described as a thermometer theory of the mind: we have true knowledge when our mental states accurately detect those aspects of the world they were designed to see.
What is Common Sense Realism?
The authors of the book The Integration of Psychology and Christianity.
Who are William Hathaway and Mark Yarhouse?
The act or process of combining 2 or more things so that they work together.
What is integration?
This idea asserts that human knowing, and even truth itself, are merely tools bequeathed us through evolution to adapt to the concrete realities of life.
What is pragmatism?
This theory proposes that all knowledge is socially constructed.
What is postmodern constructivism?
This man popularized the term Constructionist Epistemology and studied cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The idea that there are different areas of life each with their own distinct authority and responsibilities, with none subservient to the others (e.g., state, church, family, etc.
What is Kuyper's Sphere Sovereignty?
Foundational ideas that are taken as sufficiently established in order to function as starting points for further investigation.
What are Christian control beliefs?
This theory attempts to preserve a belief in a mind-independent reality and knowledge that to some extent reflects that reality.
What is Critical Realism?
A German Philosopher known for many things including his theory on transcendental idealism and the Kantian wall.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
This model of integration is the attempt to reposition contemporary psychology on a coherent biblical worldview.
What is Worldview Integration?
The branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge.
What is Epistemology?
The theory that because humans can understand the universe at all, that it is intelligible, is best explained by the Christian view that there exists a real world independent of the human mind and a God who has designed us to afford at least some knowledge of the world.
What is Lonergan's Catholic Critical Realism?
A chemist-turned-philosopher who influenced the future of Christian realism with his work on critical realism.
Who is Michael Polanyi?
The attempt to either culturally adapt or accommodate secular interventions or helping approaches for use with a Christian population or to develop explicitly Christian interventions and helping approaches derived from Christian thought and practice.
What is applied integration?
Synthesis of our a priori conditions of mind and the sensory input.
What is the phenomenenal world?
The idea that our perceptions of the sensible world are shaped and made possible by patterns of organizing sensory information that exists prior to sensory input.
What is Transcendental Idealism?
A Danish doctoral student who wrote a thesis on optical illusions including the now famous Rubin vase.
Who is Edgar Rubin?