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Understanding Empiricism (Hardcover)
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Understanding Empiricism (Hardcover)
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"Understanding Empiricism" is an introduction to empiricism and the
empiricist tradition in philosophy. The book presents empiricism as
a philosophical outlook that unites several philosophers and
discusses the most important philosophical issues bearing on the
subject, while maintaining enough distance from, say, the
intricacies of Locke, Berkeley, Hume scholarship to allow students
to gain a clear overview of empiricism without being lost in the
details of the exegetical disputes surrounding particular
philosophers. Written for students the book can serve both as an
introduction to current problems in the theory of knowledge as well
as a comprehensive survey of the history of empiricist ideas. The
book begins by distinguishing between the epistemological and
psychological/causal versions of empiricism, showing that it is the
former that is of primary interest to philosophers. The next three
chapters, on Locke, Berkeley, Hume respectively, provide an
introduction to the main protagonists in the British empiricist
tradition from this perspective. The book then examines more
contemporary material including the ideas of Sellars, foundations
and coherence theories, the rejection of the a priori by Mill,
Peirce and Quine, scepticism and, finally, the status of religious
belief within empiricism. Particular attention is paid to
criticisms of empiricism, such as Leibniz's criticisms of Locke on
innatism and Frege's objections to Mill on mathematics. The
discussions are kept at an introductory level throughout to help
students to locate the principles of empiricism in relation to
modern philosophy.
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