Johann Friedrich Herbart

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Johann Friedrich Herbart
Alan Kim, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015/12/10
Some good stuff in this new article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and some dead ends. The subject is Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841), "known today mainly as a founding figure of modern psychology and educational theory." Herbart argues that "consciousness is nothing more than the continuous stream of representations." What are these representations. More...