PSY 401 1st Edition Lecture 6 Outline of Last Lecture I. Philosophical Issuesa. Free Will vs. Determinismi. Libertarian Viewii. Determinist View1. indeterminism2. Fatalismiii. Libetiv. D. Soon et al. (2008)II. Early Greek Philosophy and Psychology a. Why Greece?b. Themes in Early Greek Thought i. Naturalistic > supernaturalii. Cosmology iii. Physisc. Thales Outline of Current Lecture I. Early Greek Philosophy and Psychology a. Thalesb. Anaximander c. PythagorasThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.d. ParmenidesCurrent LectureI. Early Greek Philosophy and Psychology a. Thalesi. Made philosophy practical1. Example: discovered a way to measure land by converting unitsb. Anaximander (611-545 BCE)i. Physis=’Apeiron’- abstract matterii. First evolutionary theorist (how the universe changes over time)1. Similar to Big Crunch Theory 2. Human development, beginning as ‘fish’iii. First world map (inaccurate)iv. First to build a Sun Dialc. Pythagoras (582-500 BCE)i. Physis=Numbers1. School of thought based on mathematical reasoning2. Founded early university (more like a group)3. Coined ‘philosophy’a. Love and wisdom (they are not progressing knowledge for money or power, just brainstorming for the sake of knowledge)4. Early Rationalist: Reason > Experience 5. Progressivea. Let women into the group (‘university’)d. Parmenides (C. 515 BCE)i. Senses vs. Reason1. Change/movement is an illusion2. In reality nothing is moving or changingii. Zeno of Elea1. Zeno’s Paradoxesa. Example: if you are shooting an arrow at a target you knowthat it will go a certain distance in a certain amount of time, however you can divide the distance it needs to travel in half an infinite amount of times. Therefore, how could something travel an ‘infinitely dividing’ distance in a finite amount of
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