WELD 174AB Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Auguste Comte, Classical Conditioning, American Psychologist
31 Jul 2020
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Catholic church only published it shortly before his death in 1543: he offered the first narcissist offence by stating that the earth is not the centre of the universe. Francis bacon (1561-1626: english philosopher and lawyer, new organon (1620) in which he described the new view of science as opposed to aristotle"s approach, neither perception nor reasoning provides progress and interaction between both is required. Church that saw a need to defend its stance: suspicion of heresy in 1633 put under house arrest and saw his book banned. Ren descartes (1596 1650: french scholar living in the netherlands, famous for his contributions to, mathematics: cartesian geometry, exponential notations, philosophy: rationalism, dualism, the undeniable existence of thought ( i think, therefore i am". Impact for the advancement of science: mechanistic world view, body can be studied scientifically. Idea of innate knowledge and the importance of deductive reasoning (rationalism)
