PSYC 4008 Lecture : THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY Notes
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The origins of psychology in philosophy, part 1. Is there an external reality that exists independently of perception: to be is to be perceived . Can it be reduced to simpler elements or is the mental an non-reducible whole. Where to begin: we could begin with ancient greek philosophy, but that philosophy is only tangentially related to modern psychology, so, i will follow the lead of you text book and begin with the father of modern. The first philosophical psychologists: descartes, leibnitz, locke, berkeley, hume, hartley, mill, kant. Ren descartes (1596-1650: descartes was a scientist and mathematician. The logic of descartes" cogito : descartes believed that i think, therefore i am is a necessary truth. What was his nature: descartes ponders the question: Descartes: descartes concludes that he is fundamentally a thinking substance and this thinking substance is immaterial and does not require a body to exist.
