PSY 421 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Psychophysical Parallelism, Baruch Spinoza
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After reading and discussing chapter 6, students should: Understand the basic differences in viewpoints between the empiricists and rationalists. Be familiar with spinoza"s view on the nature of god, mind body relationship, determinism and free will, self-preservation, and emotion. Be aware of the concept of occasionalism of malebranche. Be acquainted with the views of leibniz, including monadology, mind body relationship, and conscious and unconscious perception. Be familiar with the common sense, direct realism, and faculty psychology of thomas reid. Be acquainted with kant"s categories of thought, views on mental experience, perception of time and space, and categorical imperative. Be familiar with herbart"s views on psychology as a science, psychic mechanics, apperceptive mass, and educational psychology. Be aware of hegel"s views, including the absolute, and the dialectic process. Empiricists describe a passive mind which acts in mechanical way. Rationalists proposed an active mind that acts on information from the senses and gives it meaning.
