Sample Essays Exam 1 PS410
- In
1879 Wundt founded a discipline called
psychology. What did he intend it to be, and why was he so concerned about
the issue of “science?”
- Briefly
describe the philosophical positions that were labeled as “mechanist” and
“organismic.” Describe specifically the 4 potential causal explanations
for human behavior. How does the application of those causes relate to the
rationale Wundt used to justify the “founding”
of the discipline he called psychology?
- You
are sitting with your good friend Tom Aquinas and discussing his plans to
publish a forthcoming paper outlining his understanding of Aristotle in
the context of scholasticism. You are a flaming rationalist. What would you say to Tom publicly, and
what would you say privately? How are the two different (if they are), and
why? How would the philosophers of the early renaissance react to Aquinas’
ideas about Aristotle?