The Empiricists

ISBN-13: 9780192891884 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 192 str.

R. S. Woolhouse; Roger S. Woolhouse

Opis

"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.

Recenzje

Very useful survey if the subject, with a refreshing approach which should make it attractive to students.

O autorze

R. S. Woolhouse is Reader in Philosophy at the University of York.