Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge

Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge

Author: Etienne Bonnot De Condillac

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-09-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521584678

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Condillac's Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, first published in French in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, represented in its time a radical departure from the dominant conception of the mind as a reservoir of innately given ideas. Descartes had held that knowledge must rest on ideas; Condillac turned this upside down by arguing that speech and words are the origin of mental life and knowledge. His work influenced many later philosophers, and also anticipated Wittgenstein's view of language and its relation to mind and thought.


Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge

Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge

Author: Etienne Bonnot De Condillac

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-09-06

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780521584678

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Condillac's Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, first published in French in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, represented in its time a radical departure from the dominant conception of the mind as a reservoir of innately given ideas. Descartes had held that knowledge must rest on ideas; Condillac turned this upside down by arguing that speech and words are the origin of mental life and knowledge. His work influenced many later philosophers, and also anticipated Wittgenstein's view of language and its relation to mind and thought.


Philosophical Works of Etienne Bonnot, Abbe De Condillac

Philosophical Works of Etienne Bonnot, Abbe De Condillac

Author: F. Philip

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1317769678

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This highly readable translation of the major works of the 18th- century philosopher Etienne Bonnot, Abbe de Condillac, a disciple of Locke and a contemporary of Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot, shows his influence on psychiatric diagnosis as well as on the education of the deaf, the retarded, and the preschool child. Published two hundred years after Condillac's death, this translation contains treatises which were, until now, virtually unavailable in English: A Treatise on Systems, A Treatise of the Sensations, Logic.


Language, Culture and Cognition from Descartes to Lewes

Language, Culture and Cognition from Descartes to Lewes

Author: Timo Kaitaro

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-02-28

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 9004507248

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The monograph tells a different story on the history of modern philosophy: the narrative is no longer centred on the question whether knowledge results from experience or reason, but whether experience and reason are in fact possible without language.


Archeologie Du Frivole

Archeologie Du Frivole

Author: Jacques Derrida

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780803265714

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In 1746 the French philosophe Condillac published his Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, one of many attempts during the century to determine how we organize and validate ideas as knowledge. In investigating language, especially written language, he found not only the seriousness he sought but also a great deal of frivolity whose relation to the sober business of philosophy had to be addressed somehow. If the mind truly reflects the world, and language reflects the mind, why is there so much error and nonsense? Whence the distortions? How can they be remedied? In The Archeology of the Frivolous, Jacques Derrida recoups Condillac's enterprise, showing how it anticipated--consciously or not--many of the issues that have since stymied epistemology and linguistic philosophy. If anyone doubts that deconstruction can be a powerful analytic method, try this.


Origins and the Enlightenment

Origins and the Enlightenment

Author: Catherine Labio

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1501727435

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What epistemic assumptions framed eighteenth-century thinkers' speculations regarding origins? What, if anything, connected these speculations? The best way to understand the Enlightenment's obsession with origins is to study it in conjunction with the contemporary conceptualization of originality as a criterion of aesthetic value, Catherine Labio maintains. Her expansive survey of the era's thought places special emphasis on epistemology and is genuinely interdisciplinary, drawing on such fields as anthropology, geometry, historiography, literary criticism, and political economy. One of the most striking facets of Enlightenment thought, according to Labio, is the emergence of aesthetics as a master discourse that enabled its users to make sense of worlds ostensibly unrelated to the arts. In particular, once knowledge became defined as knowledge of things made by human beings, originality became valued not only for its novelty but also as a guarantee of epistemological certainty. Labio analyzes the views held by a variety of European thinkers—including Baumgarten, Condillac, Descartes, Kant, Locke, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Vico, and Edward Young—on the origins of ideas, languages, nations, nature, and wealth. Throughout, the author deals with a wide range of primary and secondary materials.


The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment

Author: John Robertson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0199591784

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This introduction explores the history of the 18th-century Enlightenment movement. Considering its intellectual commitments, Robertson then turns to their impact on society, and the ways in which Enlightenment thinkers sought to further the goal of human betterment, by promoting economic improvement and civil and political justice.