If a man born blind were to gain his sight in later life would he
be able to identify the objects he saw around him? Would he
recognise a cube and a globe on the basis of his earlier tactile
experiences alone? This was William Molyneux's famous question to
John Locke and it was much discussed by English and French
empiricists in the eighteenth century as part of the controversy
over innatism and abstract ideas. Dr Morgan examines the whole
history of this debate: Locke's own (negative) answer to the
question, the contributions of Berkeley, Condillac, Diderot and
Voltaire and the factual accounts of early cataract operations and
modern laboratory studies. He shows how this debate is involved in
the development and eventual separation of philosophy and
experimental psychology after the eighteenth century and considers
why the original question is effectively still unanswered. This is
one problem-area with its intricate cluster of connected conceptual
and technical difficulties which suggests the need for some reunion
or at least collaboration between the two subjects.
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