David Hartley (philosopher)
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| Born | 30 August 1705 Halifax, Yorkshire, England |
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28 August 1757 (aged 51) Bath, England |
| Alma mater | Jesus College, Cambridge |
| Era | 18th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | British Empiricism Determinism |
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Neurology, theopathy, ethics, psychology |
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Founder of the associationist school of psychology, the doctrine of vibrations, the doctrine of associations |
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David Hartley (/ˈhɑːrtli/; 8 August 1705 – 28 August 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology.
David Hartley was born in 1705 in the vicinity of Halifax, Yorkshire. His mother died three months after his birth. His father, an Anglican clergyman, died when David was only fifteen. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge, of which society he became a fellow in 1727. Originally intended for the Church, he was deterred from taking orders by certain scruples as to signing the Thirty-nine Articles, and took up the study of medicine. Nevertheless, he remained a member of the Church of England, and was on intimate terms with the most distinguished churchmen of his day. He considered it his duty to obey ecclesiastical as well as civil authorities. The doctrine to which he most strongly objected was that of eternal punishment.
Hartley was married twice. The first time in 1730 to Alice Rowley, who died the next year giving birth to their son David (1731–1813). His second marriage was in 1735 to Elizabeth (1713–78), the daughter of Robert Packer of Shellingford and Bucklebury, both in Berkshire. This marriage was undertaken in spite of the opposition of Elizabeth's influential and very wealthy family. This union produced two additional children, Mary (1736–1803) and Winchcombe Henry (1740–94). Hartley practised as a physician at Newark, Bury St Edmunds, London, and lastly at Bath, where he died in 1757.
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