PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Some Thoughts Concerning Education, Tabula Rasa, Hylas
9 Feb 2017
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Empiricism: francis bacon and ren descartes answered the challenge of montaigne"s skepticism with empiricism ( experience ), generally, empiricists argue for: We come into the world with all the knowledge we need. A passive mind that responds to sensory input. Francis bacon: focused on problems of human knowledge, described four idols that are weaknesses to human knowledge: The limits of the human intellectual apparatus (e. g. , humans are too easily satisfied with overly simple answers). The prejudices or preferred theories that blind us to alternative explanations. Aspects of the nominal misconception: too often we believe that we have explained a phenomenon by simply giving it a name. Who can then draw conservative conclusions from the observations: advocated naturalistic approaches to several psychological topics: John locke: deeply interested in epistemological questions and the application of epistemology to issues in education and other areas of psychology, argued that the mind is a white paper (tabula rasa) at birth:
