Stephen Priest s popular introduction to the British Empiricists traces the development of the movement from Hobbes through Locke Berkely and Hume and extends the study to Mill Russell and Ayer. The new edition includes a new introductory chapter that examines what... Lees meer.

In the French Enlightenment empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. What Riskin describes as a sentimental empiricism is the ideology which brought together ideas and institutions practices and politics. Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scr... Lees meer.

This book describes the development of economic demographic and social statistics in the British Isles from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth as represented by the work of twelve pioneers in these fields. Its most distinctive feature is its table... Lees meer.

A collection of essays on the work of John Locke George Berkeley and David Hume designed to provide a deeper understanding of major issues raised in the empiricist tradition. It includes The Rationalist Descartes Spinoza and Leibnitz edited by Derk Pereboom. Th... Lees meer.

Stephen Priest s popular introduction to the British Empiricists traces the development of the movement from Hobbes through Locke Berkely and Hume and extends the study to Mill Russell and Ayer. The new edition includes a new introductory chapter that examines what... Lees meer.

An introduction to the key empiricists of the 17th and 18th centuries. It focuses on the canonical figures of the empiricist movement Locke Berkeley and Hume and also explores the contributions made by other key figures such as Bacon Hobbes Boyle and Newton. Thi... Lees meer.

This book describes the development of economic demographic and social statistics in the British Isles from the mid seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth as represented by the work of twelve pioneers in these fields. This book describes the development of... Lees meer.

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 Gass... Lees meer.

Radical Empiricists presents a new history of criticism in the first half of the twentieth-century proposing innovative readings of the prose of five major modernist poet-critics. Radical Empiricists presents a new history of criticism in the first half of the twent... Lees meer.

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An introduction to the key empiricists of the 17th and 18th centuries. It focuses on the canonical figures of the empiricist movement Locke Berkeley and Hume and also explores the contributions made by other key figures such as Bacon Hobbes Boyle and Newton. Thi... Lees meer.

The rise and fall of British Empiricism is philosophy s most dramatic example of pushing premises to their logical--and fatal--conclusions. Born in 1690 with the appearance of Locke s Essay Empiricism flourished as the reigning school until 1739 when Hume s Treatise st... Lees meer.

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 cult... Lees meer.

The Empiricists. Classic Collection - Illustrated is a comprehensive anthology featuring the seminal works of the empiricist philosophers including John Locke s Concerning Human Understanding George Berkeley s Principles of Human Knowledge and David Hume s Conc... Lees meer.

The Empiricists represent the central tradition in British philosophy as well as some of the most important and influential thinkers in human history. Their ideas paved the way for modern thought from politics to science ethics to religion. The British Empiricists is a... Lees meer.