Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Movements - Empiricism

Models are one of the main instruments in scientific research. Disciplines have developed a different understanding of the notion, function and purpose of models. We thus need a systematic approach in order to understand, to build and to use models. This book gives an insight into the disciplinary modelling know-how and is a starting point to develop a general model approach that generalises and combines for an interdisciplinary use.

Johann Nikolaus Tetens (1736-1807) gehort zu den pragenden Gestalten der europaischen Aufklarung. Er hat die Philosophie John Lockes und David Humes systematisch studiert und fur die epistemologischen und moralphilosophischen Diskussionen der Zeit erschlossen. Tetens' breites Werk wird im vorliegenden Band von renommierten Forschern analysiert.

Johann Georg Heinrich Feders Schriften bieten einen reprasentativen Einblick in die Entwicklung des philosophischen Denkens, die der deutschsprachige Empirismus zwischen den spaten 1760er und den fruhen 1790er Jahren nahm. Es entsteht ein plastisches Bild der, Neuen Gottinger Wissenschaften wahrend der Spataufklarung. Neben zahlreichen Zeitschriftenbeitragen und Rezensionen werden Auszuge aus schwer zugangigen Monographien prasentiert.

The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries. Using a complete interpretation of Alfred North Whitehead s philosophical and mathematical writings and an interpretive structure that is essentially new, Auxier and Herstein argue that Whitehead has never been properly understood, nor has the depth and breadth of his contribution to the human search for knowledge been assimilated by his successors. This important book effectively applies Whitehead s philosophy to problems in the...

Our knowledge comes primarily from experience. But is experience really what it seems? Is it reliable? This graphic guide by popular Introducing series philosopher Dave Robinson introduces the concept of empiricism and what it could mean to accept a "common sense" view of the world we observe.

Many of the seemingly bland assertions and bald statements of the eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume contain more than the mind immediately perceives. Author John Valdimir Price contends that an understanding of Hume's writings cannot be separated from an understanding of his life. By examining the works of Hume, Price shows the way in which an ironic way of seeing events and an ironic mode of expression permeated Hume's life and writings.

Price examines Hume's irony as it is exhibited in letters to his friends and in his writings concerned with morality, people, philosophy,...