PSY-204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Internalism And Externalism, The Takeaway, Externalism
23 Sep 2016
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Contributes to moral understanding (it"s all about your memory) Helps develop assessment skills: evidence, conflict interpretations, past examples of change. Goodwin, 2008: avoid mistakes of the past. 1868 freud presents his seduction theory, is severely ridiculed and changes his interpretation of his patients" dreams and free associations to what later he referred to as the oedipus complex. Goodwin (sexuality exists much in fantasies where it could make such impact) Help predict the future: risky at best, the study of consciousness was all range. More important: only way to understand the present. Puts the preset in better perspective: keep us humble. Watson/evans, 1991: the historian is always between you and the historical event, historical events are seldom neatly packaged affairs, the history of ideas is fraught with misreading"s and misunderstandings. Whether a given historical idea turns out to be true or false (from our historical perspective) is irrelevant. Ideas seldom, if ever, die; nor are they born .
