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1561
Francis Bacon
He was born in 1561, York House, London, UK and died in1626, Highgate, London, UK
His contributions:
Main proponent of empiricism
Differences between fallacies and false notions -
Thomas Hobbes
He was born in 1588, Westport and died in 1679, Derbyshire, UK
His contributions:
He denied that the will is free
He questioned rationalism
He said that thought comes from the senses -
René Descartes
He was born in La Haye, France, 1596 and died in Stockholm, Sweden, 1650.
He studied at the Jesuit college of La Flèche.
His contributions:
He accept as the only true what
is presented as "clear and distinct ideas"
He divided a problem into as many parts as necessary
to solve it "ANALYSIS"
He ordered thoughts from simple to complex
"synthesis" -
John Locke
He was born in 1632, Wrington, UK and died in 1704, High Laver, UK
His contributions:
He proposed that the soul is like a pink tabula
He said that ideas come from experiences
He made the differences between simple and compound ideas -
David Hume
He was born in 1711, Edinburgh, UK and died in 1776, Edinburgh, UK
His contributions:
He recognized the limitations of knowledge
He distinguished two types of perceptions: impressions and ideas. -
Sigmund Freud
He was born in 1856, Příbor, Czechia
and died in 1939, Hampstead, London, UK
His contributions:
He postulated the id, me and superego
He postulated psychosexual development
