PSY-1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Thought Experiment, Flowchart, Noam Chomsky
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For many french thinkers, psychology could be at most a branch of physiology. August compte (1798-1854), a philosopher and positivist" (someone who stresses importance that science is perceived with empirical facts, rather than hypothetical facts), later organized all the sciences: Math, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, sociology into a hierarchy. Said psychology can"t be a science; can"t observe what goes on in the mind but with sociology you can observe what crowds do. Bodies and minds are separate, but mind is mechanical and lawful just like body. 1550 church of england relative independence from catholic church. Intellectuals wanted to develop a mechanical empiricism in the spirit of newton"s physics. Moral philosophy (in today"s terms social sciences and humanities) Basic idea: an orderly world imparts its structure to each human anew, through sense information and laws of mind. Conscious experience consists of sequences of ideas each triggering the next based on past associations and current sensory input.
