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Plato
Plato was known to be the founder of modern western philosophy.The idea of metaphysics belongs to this man a theory which explores the principles of abstract topics such as being, knowing, substance and many more. -
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon is mainly known for his creation of the "Baconian Method" or more commonly known as the scientific method. He was a philosophical advocate of the scientific revolution. -
Rene Descartes
Descartes is most noted for creation of the "Cartesian Coordinate System" which today is known as the coordinate plane. This plane is the basis of analytic geometry. However in the psychology field he contributed to a widely read "Meditations on First Philosophy" studied in universities today. -
John Locke
"Labor Theory of Property" stating that in order to have land one must input a significant amount of labor to achieve it. He was the first to define oneself through a continuity of consciousness; "tabula rosa" also known as a blank slate. -
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea is best known for creation of the first mental asylums. She strived to imporve conditions for mentally ill people. Today there is a psychiatric hospital in her name located in Raleigh North Carolina. -
Charles Darwin
His most famous work is "On the Origin of Species" written in 1859. A theory of his includes adaption which states that if a certain trait does not help a species flourish it eventually dissapears. Another theory was natural selection which is when the organism which is better adapted to their environment is more succesful in survival and reproducing. This idea of natural selection played a role in influencing human behavior with the genetic and evolutionary concepts. -
Wilhelm Wundt
German professor, physicist, psychologist and more. Known to be the father of experimental psychology. He explored the reasons people resort to religion, identified mental disorders. With this he had the ability to seclude psychology as it's own category of science. -
William James
He wrote "Principles of Psychology" consisting of four methods: Analysis, Introspection, Experiment, and Comparison. He was the first professor to offer a pychology in the United States. The "James-Lange Theory of Emotion" that states that emotion is our minds perception was also created by William James. -
G. Stanley Hall
Hall was the first president of American Psycological Association and focused on childhood deveolpment along. He has a Theory of Adolescence which states -
Mary Whiton Calkins
Calkins published numerous writings including "The Persistant Problems of Philosophy" and "The Good Man and The Good". She was known as the first woman to be the president of the Psycological Association. She studied dreams and concluded that the alert mind and the sleeping mind have many similarities. -
Edward B. Titchener
Titchener was a British psychologist who most famously studied experimental psychology. He is most famous for creating the version of psychology which studies the structure of the mind known as structuralism. -
Margaret Floy Washburn
Washburn was a famous psychologist in the United States in the early 1900. She was well known for her studies in animal behavior and her theory in motor development. Margaret Floy Washburn was also the first woman to get a PhD in the field of psychology. -
Rosalie Rayner
Rayner was a American Psychologist who was married to fellow psychologist John B. Watson. She completed an experiment with him through an experiment which demonstrated the development of an emotional response with certain conditioning techniques. -
Aristotle
Aristotle is famed for quite a few ideas. One of which includes "The Correspondence Theory of Truth" which states that the truth is the general truth in all cases rather than just specfic scenarios. Another is the "Golden Mean" which states making decisions based on your morale rather than possible consequeces for actions. Aristotle also founded a school which his followers eventually called "Peripatetic" that focused on philosophical and scientific inquiries. -
Socrates
Socrates has a variety of famous philosophies including knowledge, virtue, politics and covertness. Socrates' political theories regained much fame during the Renaissance in Europe through individuals such as Locke and Hobbes.
