The Empiricists A History of Western Philosophy, vol 5

Zusatztext Very useful survey if the subject! with a refreshing approach which should make it attractive to students. Informationen zum Autor R. S. Woolhouse is Reader in Philosophy at the University of York. Klappentext "One of the great historic controversies in philosophy," according to Bertrand Russell, is that between empiricists--"best represented by the British philosophers, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume"--and rationalists. This book sets the empiricists in their contemporary and cultural context, examines their various approaches to philosophy, and highlights the significance of their ideas to 20th-century thinking. By focusing on what the "empiricists" actually have to say, rather than on their classification as such, Woolhouse incidentally shows how unreliable these conventional labels can be. Zusammenfassung This book sets the empiricist philosophers in context and examines their various approaches to philosophy. It concentrates primarily on the major figures - Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume - but also discusses the unjustly neglected French philosopher Pierre Gassendi and devotes a chapter to the Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge, which was founded in the 1660s.

Product details

• Authors: R. S. (Reader in Philosophy Woolhouse, Woolhouse R. S., R. S. Woolhouse, Roger S. Woolhouse
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 18.02.1988
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780192891884
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289188-4
• Pages: 190
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 19.7 x 1.1 cm
• Series: A History of Western Philosophy > 05; History of Western Philosophy > 0005; A History of Western Philosophy > 5; History of Western Philosophy > 5; History of Western Philosophy Series
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General; Philosophical traditions and schools of thought; History of Western philosophy