Mycenaean Greece: (ca.1500-ca.1100 BC)
Trojan War (ca.1250 BC?)
Greek "Dark" Age (1100-800): "Dorian" invasion
Greek Epic & Lyric Ages (ca.800-ca.550
BC)
Homer (7th century BC): Iliad, Odyssey
Hessiod (late 7th century BC): Theogony, Works &
Days
Sappho (b. 612 BC):
Classical/Hellenic Greece (ca.550-323 BC, death
of Alexander the Great)
Age of Athenian, Spartan domination
Thales (fl. 585 BC): "the magnet has psyche",
"all is water", "the cosmos has a psyche
and is full of daimonai (spirits)"
Pythagoras (fl. ca. 532 BC): "all is number"
Heraclitus (d. ca. 480 BC): "all is in flux",
seek the underlying logos
Parmenides (b. ca. 510 BC): problems of being and non-being,
"change is impossible."
Protagoras (ca. 485-ca. 420 BC): "man is the
measure of all"
Democritus (ca. 460-ca. 370 BC): atomism
Hippocrates (ca. 470-ca. 370 BC): Greatest of Greek
physicians
Socrates (ca. 470-399 BC)
Plato (ca. 428-ca. 348 BC)
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Hellenistic Age (323-30 BC, Augustus conquers Egypt) &
Roman Empire (30 BC-AD 330, Constantine moves capital to
Byzantium)
Zeno of Citium (336-265 BC): Greek founder of Stoicism
Epicurus (341-270 BC): Greek founder of Epicurianism
Cleanthes (331-232 BC): Greek Stoic
Chrysippus (ca. 280-207 BC): Greek Stoic
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Lucretius (ca. 99-ca. 55 BC): Roman Epicurian
Seneca (4 BC-65 AD): Roman Stoic
Epictetus (55-135 AD): Roman Stoic
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD): Emperor, Roman Stoic
Plotinus (ca.207-270): Leading Neo-Platonist
Proclus (410-485): Last major Pagan philosopher, Neo-Platonist
Ptolemy (ca.90-168): Develops mathematical geocentric model
of universe
Galen (129-199): Greatest of Roman physicians
Origen (186-253): Eastern Christian "father"
Tertullian (ca. 160-ca. 220): Western Christian
"father"
Early Middle Ages (ca. 330-1000)
Alaric sacks Rome(410); Odoacer becomes "barbarian"
Emperor (476)
St. Augustine (354-430): Confesions, City of God
Boethius (ca. 480-524): Consolation of philosophy
Merovingian Empire (ca. 450-ca. 750)
("Dark Ages")
Carolingian Empire (ca. 750-ca. 950)
Alcuin (ca. 735-804)
John Scotus Eriugena (ca. 810-ca. 877): translator
of many Greek works
Rise of Isalm (ca. 600)
Muhammad (570-632): Founder of Islam
"Avicenna" or Ibn Sina (980-1037): Leading Neo-Platonist
"Averroës" or Ibn Rushd (1126-1198): Leading Aristotelian
Maimonides (1135-1204): Leading Jewish physician and philosopher
"High" Middle Ages: ca.1000-ca.
1450
Seven "Crusades" 1096-1270
St. Anselm (1033-1109): logical "proof" of God's existence
Peter Abélard (1079-1142): radical Benedictine, logic must
verify faith, Sic et non
St. Bernard (1090-1153): Leading Cistercian
St. Bonaventure (1221-1274): Leading Franciscan
St. Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225-1274): Leading Dominican,
"Grand synthesis"
Great Faimine 1315-17; Hundred Years War 1337-1453;
"Black Death" 1347-50; "Peasant"
Uprisings 1378-1382
The "Renaissance": (ca. 1450-1600)
Gutenberg Bible (1455); Corpus Hermeticum (1463);
Malleus Malificarum (1486); Martin Luther's German Bible
(1522).
Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543): heliocentric model universe,
Neo-Platonist
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601): revised geocentric
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): heliocentric
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630): heliocentric w/ eliptical planetary
aths
William Harvey (1578-1657): discovers circulation of the blood
Francis Bacon (1561-1626): knowledge comes from perception
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): mind is a machine
The "Enlightenment": (ca. 1600-1800)
René Descartes (1596-1650): rationalism; dualism; "I
think, therefore I am"
Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-1677): dual-aspect theory
John Locke (1632-1704): empiricism, everything in mind comes from
perception
Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716): parallelism; monads; "Everything
in the mind comes from perception but for the mind itself"
George Berkeley (1685-1753)-radical empiricism
David Hume (1711-1776)-radical empiricism -- scepticism
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)-12 innate "categories" of
mind combine w/ percepts
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)-laws of motion, gravitation
James Watt (1736-1819)-perfects steam engine
Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794)-discovers oxygen, 30 other chemical
elements
19th Century
Thomas Young (1773-1829)
Charles Bell (1774-1842)
Johann F. Herbart (1776-1841)
Johann Kaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832)
François Magendie (1783-1855)
George Coombe (1788-1858)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Charles Babbage (1792-1871)
Marie-Jean Pierre Flourens (1794-1867)
Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878)
Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798-1854)
Auguste M. François Compte (1798-1857)
Johannes Peter Müller (1801-1858)
Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887)
Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882)
Søren Aaby Kirkegaard (1813-1855)
George Boole (1815-1864)
Rudolph Hermann Lotze (1817 -1881)
Frans Cornelis Donders (1818-1889)
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz (1821-1894)
Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884)
Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Pierre Paul Broca (1824-1880)
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893)
Ivan Michailovich Sechenov (1829-1905)
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832-1920)
Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911)
K.Ewald K.Hering (1834-1918)
John Hughlings-Jackson (1835-1911)
Hippolyte Bernheim (1837-1919)
Franz Brentano (1838-1917)
Ernst Mach (1838-1916)
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)
Richard von Krafft-Ebbing (1840-1902)
Josef Breuer (1842-1925)
Eduard von Hartmann (1842-1906)
William James (1842-1910)
Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1842-1936)
Richard H.L. Avenarius (1843-1896)
Camillo Golgi (1843-1926)
Harald Höffding (1843-1931)
Granville Stanley Hall (1844-1924)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
George John Romanes (1848-1894)
Carl Stumpf (1848-1936)
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936)
Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934)
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
20th Century
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926)
Vladimir M. Bekhterev (1857-1927)
Alfred Binet (1857-1911)
Paul Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939)
Karl Pearson (1857-1936)
Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952)
David Émile Durkheim (1858-1917)
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1923)
Max Planck (1858-1947)
Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
Edmund Gustav Albert Husserl (1859-1938)
Pierre Marie Felix Janet (1859 - 1942)
James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)
James Mark Baldwin (1861 - 1934)
Oswald Külpe (1862-1915)
Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930)
Joseph Jastrow (1863-1944)
Hugo Münsterberg (1863 - 1916)
Charles Edward Spearman (1863-1945)
George Malcolm Stratton (1865-1957)
Edward Bradford Titchener (1867-1927)
Lightner Witmer (1867 - 1956)
James Rowland Angell (1869 - 1949)
Robert Sessions Woodworth (1869-1962)
Alfred Adler (1870-1937)
Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
Walter Bradford Cannon (1871-1945)
William McDougall (1871 - 1938)
William Stern (1871 - 1938)
Harvey A. Carr (1873 - 1954)
Edwin Burket Twitmyer (1873-1943)
Edward Lee Thorndike (1874-1949)
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
Clifford Whittingham Beers (1876-1943)
Robert Mearns Yerkes (1876 - 1956)
Louis Madison Terman (1877-1956)
Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965)
John Broadus Watson (1878-1958)
Arnold Lucius Gesell (1880-1961)
Max Wertheimer (1880-1943)
Albert Edward Michotte (1881-1965)
Henri Piéron (1881-1964)
Eduard Spranger (1882 -1963)
Cyril Lodowic Burt (1883-1971)
Karl Jaspers (1883-1969)
Clark Leonard Hull (1884-1952)
Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922)
Karen Horney (1885-1952)
Edwin Garrigues Boring (1886 - 1968)
Frederic Charles Bartlett (1886-1969)
Karl Ritter von Frisch (1886-1983)
Edwin Ray Guthrie (1886-1959)
Kurt Koffka (1886-1941)
Edward Chace Tolman (1886-1959)
Karl M. Dallenbach (1887- )
Louis Leon Thurstone (1887-1955)
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
Walter Samuel Hunter (1889-1954)
Floyd H. Allport (1890-1978)
Kurt Lewin (1890-1947)
Karl Spencer Lashley (1890-1958)
Carl John Warden (1890-1961)
Wilder Graves Penfield (1891-1976)
Jacob Levy Moreno (1892- )
Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949)
Henry Alexander Murray (1893-1988)
Fritz Perls (1893-1970)
Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894-1956)
Curt P. Richter (1894-1988)
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964)
Anna Freud (1895-1982)
Nathaniel Kleitman (1895- )
Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (1896-1934)
David Wechsler (1896-1981)
Gordon Willard Allport (1897-1967)
Joy Paul Guilford (1897-1987)
Leonard Carmichael (1898-1973)
Harry Helson (1898- )
Georg von Békésy (1899-1972)
John Dollard (1900-1980)
Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
Norman Raymond Maier (1900- )
Alexander Romanovich Luria (1902-1977)
Carl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987)
Erik Homburger Erikson (1902- )
Egon Brunswik (1903-1955)
Daniel Katz (1903- )
Jerzy Konorski (1903 - 1973)
Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989)
Theodore M. Newcomb (1903 - )
John von Neumann (1903-1957)
James Jerome Gibson (1904 - 1979)