COG SCI 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Consciousness: Tabula Rasa, Behaviorism, Determinism
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4/11: chapter 10 (philosophical issues in cognitive science) The rationalist view: epistemology refers to the theory of knowledge"s nature + origin. Plato suggested that certain knowledge, such as mathematical truths (e. g. the properties of a square), is already within us. Descartes, a proponent of the rationalist school, built on the ideas of plato. Held that the mind is primary, all knowledge acquired through reasoning, innate concepts (e. g. god, body), + elementary logical propositions (of the nature it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be. ) One may say infants are born w a tendency to cry when they are hungry + to identify important aspects of their environment, such as their mothers. Descartes: infants are able to identify crucial entities in their surroundings because the idea of these entities is inborn. Nothing has come to our minds via senses, as ideas are there from birth or formed via innate mechanism for forming ideas.
