Recollection and Experience: Plato's Theory of Learning and Its Successors

by Dominic Scott

Book Overview

Questions about learning and discovery have fascinated philosophers from Plato onwards. Does the mind bring innate resources of its own to the process of learning or does it rely wholly upon experience? Plato was the first philosopher to give an innatist response to this question and in doing so was to provoke the other major philosophers of ancient Greece to give their own rival explanations of learning. This book examines these theories of learning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521030919
• ISBN13: 9780521030915
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"