PHILOS 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Robert Hooke, Learned Society, Experiment
14 Sep 2016
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Royal society of london, 1660: world"s first scientific society. Locke favoured everything that hobbes stood against. Locke is known as a political philosopher: he sees the state as a solution. After the error of those who deny god . there is nothing that leads to weak minds further form straight path of virtue than that of imagining that the souls of the beasts are of the same nature as ours. It must be possible for machines to think. Living bodies our own included are machines. Descartes worked near the boom of physiology: william harvey identified the heart as a pump, its motions, its purpose, its system, robert hooke studied the proper usage and functions of the microscope. The more that people learned about life, anatomy, microscopic dimensions, and physiology the more useful descartes theory of machines seemed true. The problem with his theory was the notion that animals and human machines cannot think.
