PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Pineal Gland, Hermann Von Helmholtz, Stephen Hales
7 Mar 2017
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Hermann ludwig ferdinand von helmholtz measured the speed of conduction of a. Resulted in optimism about possibility of a science of human nature. Mechanization and quantification nervous impulse (1) thomas hobbes. Goal of philosophy should involve numerical comparisons to assess magnitudes, distances, motions + proportions. Corrupter of morals spoke against the biblical literalism, authority of the pope + excessive reliance on authority. Result from external physical movements that activate sense organs. Bodies in motion in external world set off motions in the sensory channels + set off motions in the brain. Ideas (phantasms) result from motions in the brain. Emphasis on sensorial origins of knowledge empirical universal nature not an adequate basis for science. But argued that experience alone = incapable of establishing anything of a. Through experience can have knowledge of only specific events + such knowledge . Hobbesian view a body of organized knowledge for which geometry serves for the. Hobbes, once worked for bacon rejected baconian science.
