PSYC 305 Final: Final Exam material

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Mechanism emerged as a philosophical perspective : a systematic doctrine of body, showing how physical phenomena were universally explicable in terms of motion, at least as motion or mechanical action to explain brain processes. Thomas hobbes argued that the subject matter of philosophy is the motion of physical bodies. He used a mathematical method in the rationalist tradition. He was a nominalist in that he advocated the use of reason to provide names and classification systems. Hobbes was also a thoroughgoing materialist: he argued that god is a material being. (against religious beliefs) Hobbes believed that human nature was self-serving: humans can suppress these urges largely through fear of the state. (drives were self-serving according to hobbes) Went agains the pope and the church. People did not want to be associated to him, except people like him. Provided a psychology free of dualism and theology intellectual. Ren descartes was interested in the problem of movement in physical bodies.

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