 INTELLECTUAL

REVOLUTION THAT
DEFINED SOCIETY
• Greek speculation
about “nature”
• Known as “Pre-
Socratic” or
“non-
theological” or
“first
philosophy”
Three Characteristics:
1. The World is a natural whole
2. There is a “natural order”
3. Humans can “Discover” those
laws
 Information Age
(Alan Turing)

Freudian Revolution

Darwinian Revolution

Copernican Revolution
I. Copernican Revolution
Nicolaus Copenicus (1473 –
1543)
• Astronomer and
mathematician
• Adopted the “heliocentric
model suggesting the idea
that the sun is the center
of the solar system”
II. Darwinian Revolution
 Charles
Darwin

 Naturalist,
Geologist, &
Biologist
 • Suggested that all
organisms are related
and have descended
from a common
ancestors
• Explains that complex
creatures evolved naturally
from simplistic ancestors
over time
• Survival of the fittest
• The more
adapted they are
in the
environment, the
more they will
survive
Theory of Evolution
 III. Freudian Revolution
 Sigmund Freud

 “Father of
Psychoanalysis”
• Freud’s structural theory
of personality emphasizes
the role of unconscious
psychological conflicts in
shaping behavior and
personality
Psychoanalytic Personality Theory
IV. Information Revolution

This has been the era in which the

technology has been prevalent. It is
also known as the Computer Age that
has brought so much change on how
are we living today.
 • Gutenberg’s Printing press in 1455
• Analytic Engine by Agusta & Babbage in 1870
• First telephone during 1870
• Turing’s work during World War II
• Alan Turing (1912- 1954)

• The Father of Modern

computer science
• provided a fundamental
contribution to computer
sciences by refining the
concepts of algorithm and
computation
• Turing Machine
• This 
universal Turing
machine
, as it is known, is
a mathematical
model of the
modern
computers we all
• His work led to the construction
of the first true computers, but
his most famous work came in
1950 when he published a paper
asking “can machines think?”.
• Turing Test
• A test of machine’s
ability to exhibit
intelligent behavior
equivalent to, or
distinguishable from
that of a human .
 INTELLECTUAL
REVOLUTION THAT
DEFINED SOCIETY
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