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Plato
Plato was a classical Greek philospher and mathematician. Plato believed that knowledge was all from recollection and not learning or studying. Platonism is named after Plato and was one of his many theories about reason. Platonism is a term that refers to anything that disagrees witht the realities of matter. -
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Francis Bacon
Bacon was an English philosopher known for his works on science, religion, and government. Bacon was considered the father of modern science and is credited for his works on the scientific method. Bacon also wrote many works about utopian socities and the issues of the current era. -
Rene Descartes
Descartes is considered "The Father of Modern Philosophy" and the first philospher to use reason to explain natural science. He was also a skeptic who rejected work that was not absolutely certain. Descartes was the founder of the deductive method and is probably most famous for his famous line, "I think, therefore I am". -
John Locke
John Locke was an English philosopher perhaps best known for his theories on government responsibility. Locke believed that all people recieved certain natural rights from the government. In exchange, the government could rule over the people as long as they did not do anything to violate the rights previously laid out. -
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix was an activist who stood by people with mental disabilities. She lobbied state legislatures and congress to improve the country's system of caring for the mentally challegend. Dix successfully was responsible for the nation's first mental asylums. -
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin is best known for his theories of natural selection and evolution. He hypothesized that positive adaptations allowed species to survive and pass on genes. His theory of evolution is still considered controversial today. -
Wilhelm Wundt
Wundt was a German psychologist now referred to as the "Father of Experimental Psycholohy". After the creation of his own laboratory, Wundt was able to seperate pyschology from other sciences. Wundt was notable for his contributions to psycholinguistics, mental illness, and brain study. -
William James
James was a leading psychologist who was the first to offer courses to anyone. His focus was mainly on religious psychology, mysticism, and pragmatism. He sought to study intense religious experiences because he thought it would allow him to delve deeper into the mind. He also hypothesized that people needed to "Over-believe" certain things in order to feel fulfilled. -
G. Stanley Hall
Hall was the first member of the APA and was a mainstay in educational psychology. Much of his studies revolved around the effect adolescence had on education. He favored splitting men and women up in schools so they could grow amongst their own genders. Socially, he believed that people were isntinct-driven and could not reason. -
Mary Whiton Calkins
Calkins was a prominent psychologist who eventually became the first women president of the APA. She developed self-psychology and the paired-assosciate technique. She fought for equality for women psychologists throughout her life. -
E.B. Titchener
Edward Bradford Titchener was a British psychologist known for creating his own perspective, structuralism. Titchener devoted himself to studying the different stages of consciousness. Titchener used introspection to study the various stages of conscioussness. -
Margaret Floy Washburn
Margaret Floy Washburn is most notable as the first woman to ever be granted a PhD in psychology. Washburn studied animal behavior and was a leading researcher in motor development. She used her studies on animals to prove that mental thoughts were just as important as observable behaviors. -
Rosalie Rayner
Rayner was an American psychologist known for her relationship with John B. Watson. Rayner is also known for the Little Albert Experiment that proved empirically that humans were classically conditioned. Watson and Rayner found that fear was an innate condition and it could be taught. -
Aristotle
Aristotle's psychology splits human beings into three different souls, the vegetative, the sensitive, and the rational. Aristotle believed that the vegetative soul was common to all living things, the sensitve soul was shared by humans and animals, and the rational soul was the only soul specific to humans. -
Socrates
Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher known for the Socratic Method in which questions are asked to find an underlying belief. The Socratic Method is a type of negativ hypothesis elimination. Socrates was also famous for his paradoxes such as "No one desires evil". -
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