The empiricists

Author(s)

• Woolhouse, R. S. (Roger S.)

Bibliographic Information

The empiricists

R.S. Woolhouse

（OPUS, . A History of Western philosophy ; 5）

Oxford University Press, 1988

• : pbk.

Note

Bibliography: p. [175]-176

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780192192073

Description

"One of the great historic controversies in philosophy", is how Bertrand Russell described the ideological conflict between rationalists and empiricists - the conflict between reason and experience as the primary source of knowledge and ideas. In this study, however, R.S. Woolhouse is less concerned to justify these traditional labels than to set forth the dominant philosophical ideas and let them speak for themselves. The book concentrates on the major "empiricist" figures - Locke, Berkeley, and Hume - but complete chapters are also devoted to the unjustly neglected French philosopher Pierre Gassendi, and to the members of the Royal Society, founded in the 1660s.

Volume

: pbk. ISBN 9780192891884

Description

`One of the great historic controversies in philosophy' was how Bertrand Russell described the ideological conflict between rationalists and empiricists - the conflict between reason and experience as sources of knowledge and ideas. Yet in this study of the empiricists R.S. Woolhouse is not so much concerned to justify these conventional labels as to set forth the dominant philosophical ideas and let those ideas speak for themselves. Setting the empiricist philosophers in their contemporary cultural context, the author examines their various approaches to philosophy. He 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. While focusing on their contribution to the new philosophy of the seventeenth century, which was primarily concerned with the nature of knowledge and science, he also highlights the moral and political aspects of their work and emphasises the significance of their ideas to twentieth-century thinking.

Table of Contents

• REFERENCES
• FURTHER READING
• INDEX

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Details

• NCID: BA03540642
• ISBN:
  • 0192192078
  • 019289188X
• LCCN: 87007818
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire]
• Pages/Volumes: 183 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B816
  • DC19 : 146/.44
  • NDC8 : 133.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Empiricism -- History
  • LCSH : Philosophy, Modern -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00187266