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Empiricist Theories of SpaceSpacious Minds and Spatial Spirits: John Locke on Space and Thought

Empiricist Theories of Space: Spacious Minds and Spatial Spirits: John Locke on Space and Thought [Spatial metaphors and spatial discourse about the mind and ideas abound in Locke’s Essay. This raises two related kinds of questions: first, whether and in what sense the mind is “in space”, has a location, and perhaps an extension? And second: how this ‘spatial mind’ is also ‘spacious’, offering room for ideas? What sense of spatiality is involved when Locke says that ideas are “in the mind”, “lodged in the mind”, and how does this inner spatiality of ideas within, relates to the spatiality of things without? In this chap. I argue that Locke’s early relationist view of space, expounded in the manuscript notes of his 1676-8 journals, offers a better framework for understanding how space could be applied in a literal sense to ideas, than the more mitigated view set forth in the Essay itself.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Empiricist Theories of SpaceSpacious Minds and Spatial Spirits: John Locke on Space and Thought

Part of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 54)
Editors: Berchielli, Laura
Hamou, Philippe
Empiricist Theories of Space — Nov 4, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-57619-6
Pages
95 –115
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-57620-2_4
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Abstract

[Spatial metaphors and spatial discourse about the mind and ideas abound in Locke’s Essay. This raises two related kinds of questions: first, whether and in what sense the mind is “in space”, has a location, and perhaps an extension? And second: how this ‘spatial mind’ is also ‘spacious’, offering room for ideas? What sense of spatiality is involved when Locke says that ideas are “in the mind”, “lodged in the mind”, and how does this inner spatiality of ideas within, relates to the spatiality of things without? In this chap. I argue that Locke’s early relationist view of space, expounded in the manuscript notes of his 1676-8 journals, offers a better framework for understanding how space could be applied in a literal sense to ideas, than the more mitigated view set forth in the Essay itself.]

Published: Nov 4, 2020

Keywords: Space; Spatial relations; Mind; Place; Extension

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