"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.

The Empiricists (A ^AHistory of Western Philosophy)

History

Woolhouse, R. S.

Americas

Oxford University Press

<p>Setting the British empiricists--Locke, Berkeley, and Hume--in their contemporary and cultural context, Woolhouse examines their approaches to philosophy and their significance to 20th-century thought, and looks at what the empiricists actually have to say, rather than their classification as such.</p>

The Empiricists (History of Western Philosophy)

<p>This book introduces student to the three major figures of modern philosophy known as the rationalists. It is not for complete beginners, but it is an accessible account of their thought. By concerning itself with metaphysics, and in particular substance, the book relates an important historical debate largely neglected by the contemporary debates in the once again popular area of traditional metaphysics. in philosophy. (Do Not USE)</p>

Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth-Century Metaphysics

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Routledge

filosofia tis epistimis / φιλοσοφία της επιστήμης

Polytropon

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