PSYC 354 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Empiricism, Enactivism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 354
• Professor: Tyler Wereha

Document Summary

It has a part in all disciplines, but there is a cut off point before it goes full circle and becomes obsolete: based on critical thinking, origins of psychology comes from philosophy, expansion of thought (cid:224) open mindedness , doesn"t really create a conclusive course of action (cid:224) no empiricism, useful to generating questions (cid:224) leading to empirical testing. Summer 2014: science is not about assembling facts, it"s developing understanding to those facts, science and philosophy are complimentary to each other (cid:224) they are continuous, there is a continuity between philosophy and science (ethics and morals, distortions of philosophy take into account higher powers and supernatural entities, philosophy is a clarifier of issues not an explainer/solution giver, it gives was to the scientific methods, science is ethics free, it"s the implications of science that have ethical questions drawn from it ( the ethics of science ) (cid:224) epistemic issues.