Exam 4: The Lines of Development From Philosophy

Describe Leibniz's psychophysical parallelism.

Summarize Berkeley's argument that tactile-kinesthetic sensations are the basis of space perception.

Contrast John Stuart Mill's "mental chemistry" with his father James Mill's "mental mechanics."

What was the primary basis of Hume's skepticism?

John Locke's philosophy argued that

Charles Darwin proposed that evolution occurs by chance mutations and the survival of the fit.

Why did Hobbes believe that human society requires a "social order?"

Describe Descartes's view of extended and unextended substance.

Locke proposed that primary qualities reside in the real world and that secondary qualities are subjective and are produced in people by powers of objects.

Berkeley's idealistic philosophy proposed that

What are the main tenets of scientific materialism?

Describe Leibniz's proposal that petites perceptions summate to generate higher-level percepts.

Describe Leibniz's psychophysical parallelism.

James Mill's influential philosophy

How did Swammerdam's experiment on contracting muscles disprove the idea that muscles contract because of the entry into them of animal spirits? Viewable by instructor only Answers to short answer questions for Chapter 4: The Lines of Development from Philosophy

What is evolutionary associationism?

René Descartes argued that

Kant proposed that there are innate "categories" of cause and effect, time, and space.

Contrast critical empiricism with the middle-age reliance on the authority of the Church.