PS390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Psych, Reductionism
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Natural-science psych did not seem to be aware of developments in natural sciences (esp in their admired physics) which had implications for new psych"s metaphysical + methodological foundations. Since scientific rev, western culture has considered physics as the foundation for all natural sciences. Even while early psychologists were endeavouring to secure scientific acceptance, physicists were changing their concepts. By early 1900s, classical physicists followed newton"s mechanics and gravity laws but doubts emerged concerning the nature of atoms, matter, and energy. Einstein published five papers (1905) that radically changed both physics and modern world. Pertains to objects of natural world particles of light) Pertains to human observations of natural which would appear the same regardless of the objects person observing it. Time passed at the same uniform speed for time is related to observer"s location every observer. Space and time as unitary or spacetime (mass and energy make spacetime curve)
