Name the philosopher known for the idea/quote

So, you think you know your philosophers?

Rene Descartes

What does the quote mean in English?

“I think, therefore I am.”

Cogito ergo sum

Aristotle

The first to say that knowledge is acquired via the senses?

George Berkeley

What is the quote in Latin?

Esse est percipi.

“To be is to be perceived.”

Heraclitus

What point about reality is he making?

Everything is in a constant state of change. Nothing ever is, it is always becoming.

“One cannot step into the same river twice.”

Parmenides

What point about reality is he making?

Change is impossible.

That which is, is. That which is not, is not.

Socrates

What is his MOST famous quote?

The unexamined life is not worth living.

This alone I know, that I know nothing.

John Locke

George Berkeley

David Hume

Name the 3 British Empiricists

Immanuel Kant

What does a priori mean?

The idea that knowledge is possible PRIOR to experience.

This “Moderate Rationalist” believed some knowledge is a priori

Rene Descartes

A “Modern” Philosopher who believed in innate ideas

Anaximenes

Air is the basis of all creation.

Anaximander

All life originates from the sea.

George Berkeley

All things are perceived by God, the Ultimate Perceiver

Anaxogoras

This early Athenian claimed that the mind brings order to the world of matter by organising sensory information.

Hypatia

She was an early Neo-Platonist from Alexandria

Democritus

Atoms are the basic elements of matter

Francis Bacon

There are four intellectual idols to overcome.

Aristotle

Universal forms reside within the particular entities they embody

George Berkeley

Primary & secondary qualities are not different since they both come via sense experience

Empedocles

Earth, fire, water and air are the basic elements of all things.

Plato

Who was his teacher?

Socrates

Who was Plato’s famous student?

Aristotle

The first to believe in innate ideas.

John Locke

Ideas are not innate! They are attained by experience.

David Hume

What did Hume think about the idea of causality?

It didn’t exist: we can’t see causes. We only see the before, then the after.

What is the result of extrapolating Hume’s thinking?

There is no external reality. SKEPTICISM!

Impressions are lively & vivacious, ideas are faint echoes of impressions.

Karl Popper

It is not possible to prove the truth of any idea or theory with certainty.

Zeno

What are his famous paradoxes?Achilles and the tortoise.The arrow

Movement is impossible

Pythagoras

Numbers are the basic element of all things

John Locke

Objects have primary & secondary qualities

Plato

Rulers should be kings who think like philosophers

Thomas Kuhn

Scientists work within an unquestioned set of beliefs; a paradigm that shapes their thinking.

Parmenides

Senses tell us “the way of seeming,” reason gives us the “way of truth.”

Rene Descartes

Since the idea of God must come from God (I’m not capable…) God must exist.

Aristotle

So influential in philosophy, he’s known as “The Philosopher.”

John Locke

What is the name of his most famous work?

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

The mind is a “tabula rasa” a blank slate or blank page.

Thales

Water is the basic substance of all matter.

Chuang Tzu

Wondered: “did I dream that I was a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I’m me?”

to be continued?