Humanism, a Renaissance concept for increased interest in human beings, has what major themes?

Francis Bacon, who proposed a Baconian Science based on induction (as opposed to Galileo's deduction) could be described as a...

Belief that only objects or events that can be directly observed or experienced should be scientifically studied.

Bacon's suggestion that biases arise from a person's own subjective intelligence and experience is known as what?

Bacon's suggestion that biases arise from attributes shared by all humans (human nature) is known as what?

Bacon's suggestion that biases arise from being overly influenced by words and labels is known as what?

Bacon's suggestion that biases arise from blind allegiance to a certain viewpoint is known as what?

Bacon's name for experiments designed to discover causal relationships is known as what?

Bacon's name for experiments designed to discover how the laws of nature can be utilised is known as what?

Descartes would argue that ultimate knowledge is always...

Since Descartes was imperfect, but certain ideas were perfect, these ideas must be _____.

Descartes called the process by which the mind arrives at clear and distinct idea _____.

Descartes suggested _____ arose from brain ventricles filled with _____.

Due to his study on reflexes, Descartes made it legitimate to...

Descartes believed the mind was _____.

Cartesian dualism, the idea that the mind and body are separate but interconnected can be called...

The founder of British Empiricism is thought to be...

Unlike Bacon, Hobbes utilised the _____ method of Descartes and Galileo.

"Homo homni lupus"

Like Democritus before him, Hobbes was a...

Hobbes suggested, that since we are presented with a number of appetites and aversions at any given moment, choice is simply an action tendency to pick an option. He called this action tendency _____.

For Locke, all ideas come from _____ or _____.

For Locke, Complex Ideas are...

John Locke described any aspect of a physical object that could produce an idea as a _____.

In his Paradox of the Basins, Locke says the temperature of water is a _____.

Locke says the _____ of an object is an objective match between what is physically present and what is experienced.

Locke used _____ to describe the faulty beliefs that result from time or circumstance.

Locke suggested that education should focus on _____ rather than _____.

Hume suggested that all important matters reflect...

Hume suggested that the science of man should be...

Hume distinguished between _____, which were strong perceptions and _____, which were weak perceptions.

According to Hume, once ideas exist in the mind, they can be infinitely reconfigured by _____.

Which of Hume's Laws of Association states that our thoughts run easily from one idea to a similar idea?

Which of Hume's Laws of Association states that when one thinks of an object, we will likely think of objects experienced at the same time?

Which of Hume's Laws of Association states that when we think of an outcome, we also think of what led to that outcome?

What did Hume consider the most important Law of Accosiation?

Hume said that the consistent observations of causal inferences create a cumulative experience he called...

Hume said all metaphysical concepts, as well as laws of nature, are products of...

Hume called abstract knowledge that relates ideas to other ideas, like mathematics, what?

Hume called knowledge that is based on experience, which can guide our conduct in the world, what?

James Mill and Bentham's concept of the greatest good for the most people.

James Mill is best known for his ideas of _____.

James Mill attempted to show that the mind consisted only of sensations and ideas held together by...

J.S Mill said that simple ideas can fuse to produce an idea that was different from the parts that made it up. He called this...

J.S. Mill called general laws that determine the overall behaviour of events within a system _____.

J.S. Mill called laws that interact with other laws and determine the nature of events under specific circumstances _____.

J.S. Mill said that the difficulty in understanding the details of human behaviour was due to _____.

J.S. Mill called the science of the formation of character _____.

August Comte's idea that the only thing we can be sure of is what can be publicly observed, i.e. sense experiences that can be shared with other, is known as what?

Comte suggested that all societies and people pass through which stages?

Comte suggested that a society or person who explained phenomena based on unseen essences, laws or causes was in which stage?

Comte suggested that a society or person who explained phenomena based on prediction and control was in which stage?