Discussion � Lambert re early psychology

Greg Detre

Wednesday, February 19, 2003

 

active minds as more continental

experimental method doesn't really happen till royal society and academie science in the 17th century - see henry oldenberg (first secretary of the royal society) - first formal public institutions for verifying experimetnal knowledge - started with simple physical things, and minds are much harder, and it takes ages to filter from physics through chemistry etc. to psychology

������� religion plays a role here too???

insight

physics envy - hume

cartesianism

why not questions don't really make sense - need to take into account people's aims

they said that poincare would have invented general relativity 18 months after einstein, but that�s just not true if you look at what poincare was trying to achieve