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17th Century Descartes (1596-1650)
body mind dualism mind is different from the body interaction between mind and body occurs in pineal gland believed in innate ideas and ideas deriving from experience TERM 2
18th Century Julien de la Mettrie (1709-1751)
DEFINITION 2 published "L'homme Machine (Man te Machine) people are solely machines people's actions can be explained exclusively through mechanistic principles people like animal are motivated solely by hedonistic drives TERM 3
Nativists (names)
DEFINITION 3 Gottfried Wilhem von Leibniz (1646-1716) Immanual Kant (1724-1804) TERM 4
Gottfried Wilhem von Leibniz (1646-1716)
DEFINITION 4 did not accept Locke's empiricist concept of the mind three-fourths of the mind might be based on experience, but one-quarter of the mind represents innate intellect there are internal inborn truths in the mind TERM 5
Immanual Kant (1724-1804)
DEFINITION 5 wrote Critique of Pure Reason certain intuitions or categories of understanding are inborn and do not depend on experience
Early Empiricists
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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) John Locke (1632-1704) George Berkeley (1685-1753) TERM 7
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
DEFINITION 7 emphasized the effects of experience of a passive mind power should be held by a hereditary monarch TERM 8
John Locke (1632-1704)
DEFINITION 8 advocated the experimental, observational methods of scientists his Essay Concerning Human Understanding marks the formal beginning of British Empiricism aimed to discover the basic elements of consciousness and understand their combinations and interactions the basic elements of the mind are ideas all ideas come from a single source: experience TERM 9
George Berkeley (1685-1753)
DEFINITION 9 all knowledge of the external world comes from experience matter does not exist in and of itself; it exists because it is perceived Author of An Essay Towards New Vision: deal with visual perception TERM 10
Associationists (names)
DEFINITION 10 David Hume (1711-1776) David Hartley (1705-1757) James Mill (1773-1836) John Stuart Mill (1773-1836) Alexander Bain (1818-1903)
