French philosopher considered the founder of modern philosophy.
Who is Rene Descarte?
100
What Socrates believed each person possessed that would survive beyond the death of the body.
What is an immortal soul?
100
Copies of impressions, according to Hume, that are less "lively" and "vivid."
What is ideas?
100
"I think, therefore I am."
Who is Rene Descarte?
100
David Hume's lifespan.
What is 1711-1776?
200
British philosopher and physician who laid the groundwork for an empiricist approach to philosophical questions.
Who is John Locke?
200
What Descartes refers to the essence of the self; a dynamic identity that engages in all the mental operations we associate with being a human self.
What is a thinking thing?
200
The state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings.
What is consciousness?
200
The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance.
Who is David Hume?
200
Immanuel Kant's lifespan.
What is 1724-1804?
300
German philosopher considered by many to be the greatest thinker of the eighteenth century.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
300
The place that Kant believes you can find your "self."
What is your consciousness?
300
The belief that sense experience is the main source of all knowledge and that only a careful attention to sense experience can enable us to understand the world and achieve accurate conclusions.
What is empiricism?
300
"Sensations would be nothing to us, and would not concern us in the least, if they were not received into our (orderly) consciousness."
Who is Immanuel Kant?
300
Sigmund Freud's lifespan.
What is 1856-1939?
400
Analytic philosopher that was an important figure in the field known as "Linguistic Analysis" which focused on solving philosophical puzzles through an analysis of language.
Who is Gilbert Ryle?
400
The philosopher that St. Augustine enthusiastically adopted a vision from of a bifurcated universe in which there are two realms ( intelligible and sensible.)
Who is Plato?
400
The belief that the mind is the brain and that over time a mature neuroscience vocabulary will replace the "folk psychology" that we currently use to think about ourselves and our minds.
What is eliminative materialism?
400
"The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious. What i discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied."
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
Gilbert Ryle's lifespan.
What is 1900-1976?
500
Contemporary American philosopher and professor at the University of California, San Diego.
Who is Paul Churchland?
500
The nature Paul Churchland believes must be fully understood before we can fully understand the nature of the brain.
What is the mind?
500
Twofold. Related to dualism, the belief that material substance (physical body) and immaterial substance (mind or soul) are two separate aspects of the self.
What is dualistic?
500
"When, through inability to follow, it fails to see, and through some mischance is filled with forgetfulness and evil and grows heavy, and when it has grown heavy, loses its wings and falls to the earth."