David Hartley

David Hartley

David Hartley (21. kesäkuuta 1705–28. elokuuta 1757) oli englantilainen filosofi sekä psykologian assosiationistisen koulukunnan perustaja. Hän tutki ihmismielen toimintaa perustuen Locken ajatukseen tabula rasasta sekä Condillacin ajatuksiin. Hän kirjoitti myös lääketieteestä.

Teoksia

• An Introduction towards an Essay on the Origin of the Passions, in which it is endeavored to be show'n how they are all acquired, and that they are none other than Associations of ideas of our own making, or that we learn from others (1741)
• Conjecturae quaedam de sensu, motu, et idearum generatione, liite teokseen De Lithontriptico a Joanna Stephens nuper invento Dissertatio Epistolaris (Bath, 1746); julkaistu uudelleen teoksessa Samuel Parr (toim.), Metaphysical Tracts by English Philosophers (1837)
• Various Conjectures on the Perception, Motion, and Generation of Ideas
• An Enquiry into the Origin of the Human Appetites and Affections shewing how each arises from Association, with an account of the entrance of moral evil into the world, to which are added Some Remarks on the Independent Scheme, which deduces all obligation on God’s part and Man’s from certain abstract relation, truth, &c. (1747)
• Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations (1749 ja 1791)
• Prayers and Religious Meditations (Bath, 1810)

Aiheesta muualla

• David Hartley (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) (englanniksi)
• David Hartley teoksessa "The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers", Thoemmes Press. (Victor L. Nuovo) (englanniksi)