WELD 174AB Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tabula Rasa, Natural Philosophy, Human Nature

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: WELD - Welding
• Course: WELD 174AB
• Professor: Yinjing

Document Summary

Catholic church and dominant in the middle ages: aristotle then used observation more, but insight and reason were still more dominant for understanding, empiricists in britain then argued that all human knowledge is derived from perceptual experiences. Higher performance pressure, : happiness and wellbeing did neither increase nor decrease -> we would probably have the same pos. /neg. (individual) baseline of wellbeing if we had technological advancements or not. Darwin"s evolutionary theory: precise contents of the mind/structure were unimportant, he was focused on what the mind did (especially its" function for survival) = functionalism, comparative psychology emerged then= comparison of abilities between different species. Automata: = machines that imitated human movement (had been developed much earlier by the ancient. Greeks, arabs, and chinese) => influenced the notion that humans are nothing more than another kind of machine: hobbes, descartes, adopted the model of humans as machines as well => human functioning.