John Locke was a leading philosopher and political ... which advanced the view of the mind as a tabula rasa, or blank slate, where sensory experiences dictate how one views the world.

Who is correct? The blank slate idea has a long history in philosophy that goes back to Aristotle. Skinner's version draws on English philosopher John Locke who developed a theory of knowledge as ...

Enlightenment thinker John Locke (1632–1704) held that the human mind is a blank slate at birth, ready to be written over by sensory experience. Over the centuries, this idea of information ...

In 1689, the English philosopher and physician John Locke published “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” in which he stated that the newborn mind is a “tabula rasa” – a blank slate. Locke was an ...

Who is correct? The blank slate idea has a long history in philosophy that goes back to Aristotle. Skinner's version draws on English philosopher John Locke who developed a theory of knowledge as ...