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History of Psychology, 4/e
David Hothersall, Ohio State University
Philosophical and Scientific Antecedents of Psychology

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Introduction

The Renaissance World

  1. Art
  2. Gutenberg
  3. Geography

Renaissance Science

  1. Astronomy
    1. Copernicus
    2. Ptolemy
    3. Bruno
  2. Galileo
    1. Telescope
    2. Heliocentrism
    3. Conflict with Church
    4. Experimentalism
  3. Two Contributions from England
    1. Newton
      1. Light
      2. Gravity
    2. Harvey
      1. The Movement of Blood

Renaissance Philosophy

  1. Descartes
    1. Analytical Geometry
    2. Systematic doubt
      1. Cogito ergo sum
    3. Mechanism
    4. Interactive Dualism
    5. Innate and Derived Ideas
  2. La Mettrie
    1. Mechanism
    2. Language

Post-Renaissance Philosophy: Empiricism, Associationism, and Nativism

  1. Early Empiricists
    1. Hobbes
      1. Leviathan
    2. Locke
      1. Two Treatises on Government
      2. Philosophy of Education
      3. Essay Concerning Human Understanding
        1. Sensations and Reflections
    3. Berkeley
      1. Immaterialism
  2. Seventeenth-Century Nativist Countervoice
    1. Von Leibniz
      1. Monadology
  3. Eighteenth-Century Associationism
    1. Hume
      1. Impressions and Ideas
    2. Hartley
  4. Nineteenth-Century Associationism
    1. James Mill
    2. John Stuart Mill
    3. Bain
      1. Mind
  5. Eighteenth-Century Nativist Countervoice
    1. Kant

The Importance of the Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Eras









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