PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Materialism, Étienne Bonnot De Condillac
9 May 2018
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Lecture 31
a. Intelligence was influenced by three factors:
i. brain size, the smaller the brain the fiercer the animal.
ii. brain complexity,
iii. education.
iv. Bain believed humans are typically superior in intelligence to
other animals because we have bigger, more complex brains
and because we are better educated. Explicit instruction and
the effects of everyday experience—for example, our
interactions with other people.
b. Acceptance of Materialism Will Make for a Better World.
i. we should accept the fact that, like other animals, humans
are machines—complex machines, but machines
nonetheless.
2. Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Sensationalist
a. empirical philosophy Like Locke, claimed that sensation is the
source of ideas
i. Mind’s operations on sensations produce complex ideas and
are associated with emotions.
b. ***Condillac felt that Locke had given the mind unnecessary
powers. Powers which Locke attributed to the mind can be derived
from the abilities to sense, to remember, and experience pleasure
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