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Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, (born Sept. 30, 1715, Grenoble, Fr.—died Aug. 2/3, 1780, Flux), philosopher, psychologist, logician, economist, and the leading advocate in France of the ideas of John Locke (1632–1704).

Étienne Bonnot, Abbé de Condillac, was the chief exponent of a radically empiricist account of the workings of the mind that has since come to be referred to as “sensationism.” Whereas John Locke’s empiricism followed upon a rejection of innate principles and innate ideas, Condillac went further and rejected innate abilities as well.

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, abbé de Mureau, est un philosophe, écrivain, académicien et économiste français, né le 30 septembre 1714 1, 2, 3 à Grenoble ( Dauphiné) et mort le 3 août 1780 à Lailly-en-Val ( Orléanais ). Condillac est le chef d'une école philosophique française des lumières qui enseigne un empirisme radical, le ...

Presents selections from some of the most essential features of the psychological doctrines of Ètienne Bonnot de Condillac. A history of psychology is provided based upon extracts from Treatise on Sensations.

Étienne Bonnot, Abbé de Condillac, was the chief exponentof a radically empiricist account of the workings of the mind that hassince come to be referred to as “sensationism.”. Whereas John Locke'sempiricism followed upon a rejection of innate principles and innateideas, Condillac went further and rejected innate abilities as well.

É tienne Bonnot de Condillac was one of the French philosophes, known primarily for his development of the doctrine of "sensationism." According to this doctrine, not only all of one's thoughts but even the basic operations on these thoughts derive from sensation. Condillac was born on September 30, 1714, in Grenoble, one of five children of ...

Notes to Étienne Bonnot de Condillac. 1. Condillac’s argument for the immateriality of the soul is a version of an argument that Kant dubbed “the Achilles of all rationalist inferences in the pure doctrine of the soul.”. Versions can be found in the works of a number of other early modern philosophers, including Mendelssohn and Bayle ...

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714–1780) was a philosopher of the Enlightenment, psychologist, economist, and educator; through his work he helped to bring about the dominance of the ideas of Locke and Newton over the philosophy of Descartes.