Chapter 5 Flashcards
(48 cards)
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