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1
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When did the scientific revolution start? What was the big shift?

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14thC

Purposive -> Mechanistic world picture

2
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Descartes

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Rationalist view on knowledge of mind. Experience/perception= not direct
Mind not treated as part of the world

3
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Galileo

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Pythagorean view.
How can qualities be numbers?
Response= Primary qualities in the object
Secondary produced by mind

4
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What are the three reactions to Cartesian psychology?

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  1. Accept it- ends in idealism and constructivism. mind over matter
  2. Reject it- no place for mind. behaviourism
  3. Partial reject- cog, representationalist