Psychology Tutor: Mentor (PSI) Psycho-Social Incarnation

Why was Locke strongly opposed to the concept of innate ideas proposed by Descartes?

http://www.scienceandyou.org/articles/ess_12.shtml

Discuss Locke’s criticism of the supposed evidence for innate ideas.

http://www.elliotcross.com/essays/locke1.html

What was Locke’s alternative explanation to the origins and sources of human knowledge?

http://www.rc.umd.edu/cstahmer/cogsci/locke.html

In this scheme, how do we acquire complex or abstract ideas, assuming such ideas are not innate?

http://www.philosophypages.com/locke/g02.htm

If Locke’s theory is correct, what are the limitations on the accuracy of human knowledge?

http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/4m.htm

4. Discuss the thought experiment attributed to Mr. Molyneaux and the interpretation of hypothetical results given by Locke and Berkeley.

http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/John_Wright/Locke%202.2.1to11.htm

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Berkeley/vision.htm

Why did the empiricists believe that this was such an important experiment?

http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/locke.htm

Would Leibniz predict the same results from this experiment as Locke and Berkeley?

http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-Does-Leibniz-Reject-Empiricism?&id=217003

How might Leibniz criticize the empiricist interpretation of the outcome of this thought experiment?

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-mind/

5. Contrast Leibniz psychophysical parallelism with Descartes’ interactive dualism.

http://www.philosophyonline.co.uk/pom/pom_psychophysical_parallelism.htm

http://www-physics.lbl.gov/~stapp/QID.pdf#search=%22interactive%20dualism%22

Why was Leibniz dissatisfied with Descartes’ analysis of the relation between the mind and body?

http://huizen.daxis.nl/~henkt/the-mind-body-problem.html

To what extent does Leibniz parallelism avoids theoretical problems created by Descartes interactionism?

http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/~jem/courses/cognitive/history.html

What, if anything, is valuable about Leibniz theory of monads, on which psychophysical parallelism is based?

http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/modeur/ph-ryan.htm

6. What is psychophysics?

http://www.psy.ulaval.ca/~isp/history/explanation.htm

How did it allow Fechner to solve the mind-body problem?

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/Consciousness.html

How did Fechner solution of the mind-body problem differ from Leibniz solution?

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/EpistemologyoM.html

Why was the quantitative formulation now referred to as Fechner’s Law considered to be such an important accomplishment at the time it was introduced?

http://www.nova.edu/~shoffman/visual/HOUTFECH.htm

What has been the lasting impact of psychophysics?

http://www.mji-designlab.com/html/pdf/intermix_pangborn_v.pdf#search=%22psychophysics%20today%22

7. What were the assumptions of the mechanistic framework adopted by Helmholtz?

http://faculty.frostburg.edu/mbradley/psyography/helmholtz.html

What are the virtues of this approach?

http://faculty.frostburg.edu/mbradley/psyography/helmholtz.html

What were some of the specific accomplishments of the program of research inspired by Helmholtz mechanistic approach to psychology?

http://online.sfsu.edu/~psych601/unit4/643.htm

How did he resolve some of the earlier philosophical questions pertaining to innate ideas?

http://www.nndb.com/people/445/000072229/

8. Describe Wundt’s contributions to the creation of psychology as an independent academic discipline. According to Wundt, what was the proper method of experimentation in psychology and how was it to be used?

http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/~jem/courses/history/s&s4.html

http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/wundt.shtml

What topics in psychology did Wundt think could not be studied experimentally?

http://www.comnet.ca/~pballan/PsyExpers.htm

What was Wundt’s alternative to the method of experimental study?

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wilhelm-wundt/

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