Concept

Tabula rasa

Overview

Latin phrase; philosophical theory of mind

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Tabula rasa

• John Locke
• David Hartley (philosopher)
• Johann Friedrich Herbart
• Plotinus
• Steven Pinker
• Paulo Freire
• Max Scheler
• Saviour Bernard

Related ideas

• Empiricism
• Emotion
• Ibn Tufayl
• Avicenna
• Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)
• Artificial intelligence
• Genetics
• Doxography
• Phaedo
• Innatism
• Western philosophy
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• The Book of Healing
• Avicennism
• John Locke
• On the Soul
• Ancient Greek philosophy
• Early Islamic philosophy
• David Sedley
• Latin
• Christian philosophy
• Stoicism
• Social relation
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Opposing perspectives

• Philosophy of education

Place in the tradition

Part of British philosophy.

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