HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS
Critical question: How do we come to know
Early philosophers
Plato/nativism-all knowledge innate
Aristotle/empiricism-all knowledge acquired
More recent philosophical developments
Descartes
Dualism
Implication of his dualistic position
Materialists
Argued that our mind may be machine
Suggests we can derive the laws of the mind
British Empiricism
Locke-all knowledge acquired
Built up through the association of ideas
Associationists (the Mills and Hartley)
Principles of association
Contiguity, Repetition, Vividness
Mental chemistry