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Author |
: Robert G. Meyers |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2014-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317493822 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317493826 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Empiricism by : Robert G. Meyers
"Understanding Empiricism" is an introduction to empiricism and the empiricist tradition in philosophy. The book presents empiricism as a philosophical outlook that unites several philosophers and discusses the most important philosophical issues bearing on the subject, while maintaining enough distance from, say, the intricacies of Locke, Berkeley, Hume scholarship to allow students to gain a clear overview of empiricism without being lost in the details of the exegetical disputes surrounding particular philosophers. Written for students the book can serve both as an introduction to current problems in the theory of knowledge as well as a comprehensive survey of the history of empiricist ideas. The book begins by distinguishing between the epistemological and psychological/causal versions of empiricism, showing that it is the former that is of primary interest to philosophers. The next three chapters, on Locke, Berkeley, Hume respectively, provide an introduction to the main protagonists in the British empiricist tradition from this perspective. The book then examines more contemporary material including the ideas of Sellars, foundations and coherence theories, the rejection of the a priori by Mill, Peirce and Quine, scepticism and, finally, the status of religious belief within empiricism. Particular attention is paid to criticisms of empiricism, such as Leibniz's criticisms of Locke on innatism and Frege's objections to Mill on mathematics. The discussions are kept at an introductory level throughout to help students to locate the principles of empiricism in relation to modern philosophy.
Author |
: Robert G. Meyers |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 143 |
Release |
: 2014-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317493815 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317493818 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Empiricism by : Robert G. Meyers
"Understanding Empiricism" is an introduction to empiricism and the empiricist tradition in philosophy. The book presents empiricism as a philosophical outlook that unites several philosophers and discusses the most important philosophical issues bearing on the subject, while maintaining enough distance from, say, the intricacies of Locke, Berkeley, Hume scholarship to allow students to gain a clear overview of empiricism without being lost in the details of the exegetical disputes surrounding particular philosophers. Written for students the book can serve both as an introduction to current problems in the theory of knowledge as well as a comprehensive survey of the history of empiricist ideas. The book begins by distinguishing between the epistemological and psychological/causal versions of empiricism, showing that it is the former that is of primary interest to philosophers. The next three chapters, on Locke, Berkeley, Hume respectively, provide an introduction to the main protagonists in the British empiricist tradition from this perspective. The book then examines more contemporary material including the ideas of Sellars, foundations and coherence theories, the rejection of the a priori by Mill, Peirce and Quine, scepticism and, finally, the status of religious belief within empiricism. Particular attention is paid to criticisms of empiricism, such as Leibniz's criticisms of Locke on innatism and Frege's objections to Mill on mathematics. The discussions are kept at an introductory level throughout to help students to locate the principles of empiricism in relation to modern philosophy.
Author |
: Wayne Waxman |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 644 |
Release |
: 2005-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198039433 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198039433 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kant and the Empiricists by : Wayne Waxman
Wayne Waxman here presents an ambitious and comprehensive attempt to link the philosophers of what are known as the British Empiricists--Locke, Berkeley, and Hume--to the philosophy of German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Much has been written about all these thinkers, who are among the most influential figures in the Western tradition. Waxman argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Kant is actually the culmination of the British empiricist program and that he shares their methodological assumptions and basic convictions about human thought and knowledge.
Author |
: Adam Tamas Tuboly |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2022-02-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350159228 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350159220 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Understanding in Analytic Philosophy by : Adam Tamas Tuboly
Interpretive understanding of human behaviour, known as verstehen, underpins the divide between the social sciences and the natural sciences. Taking a historically orientated approach, this collection offers a fresh take on the development of understanding within analytic philosophy before, during and after logical empiricism. In doing so, it reinvigorates debates on the role of the social sciences within contemporary epistemology. Bringing together leading experts including Martin Kusch, Thomas Uebel, Karsten Stueber and Giuseppina D'Oro, it is an authoritative reference on the logical empiricists' philosophy of social science. Charting the various reformulations of verstehen as proposed by Wilhem Dilthey, Max Weber, R.G Collingwood and Peter Winch, the volume explores the reception of the social sciences prior to logical empiricism, before surveying the positive and negative critiques from Otto Neurath, Felix Kaufmann, Viktor Kraft and other logical empiricists. As such, chapters reveal that verstehen was not altogether rejected by the Vienna Circle, but was subject to various conceptual uses and misuses. Along with systematic historical coverage, the book situates verhesten within contemporary interdisciplinary developments in the field, shedding light on the 21st-century 'turn' to understanding among analytic philosophers and opening further lines of inquiry for philosophy of social science.
Author |
: Randall E. Auxier |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2017-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351792486 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351792482 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Quantum of Explanation by : Randall E. Auxier
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 interpretation of science, empirical knowledge, and nature. It develops a new account of philosophical naturalism that will contribute to the current naturalism debate in both Analytic and Continental philosophy. Auxier and Herstein also draw attention to some of the most important differences between the process theology tradition and Whitehead’s thought, arguing in favor of a Whiteheadian naturalism that is more or less independent of theological concerns. This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy and is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in American philosophy, the philosophy of mathematics and physics, and issues associated with naturalism, explanation and radical empiricism.
Author |
: Stephen Davies |
Publisher |
: Red Globe Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2003-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780333964705 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0333964705 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empiricism and History by : Stephen Davies
In this concise introduction, Steve Davies explains what historians
Author |
: Wilfrid Sellars |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 1997-03-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674251547 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674251540 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind by : Wilfrid Sellars
The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. It broke the link, which had bound Russell and Ayer to Locke and Hume--the doctrine of "knowledge by acquaintance." Sellars' attack on the Myth of the Given in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind was a decisive move in turning analytic philosophy away from the foundationalist motives of the logical empiricists and raised doubts about the very idea of "epistemology." With an introduction by Richard Rorty to situate the work within the history of recent philosophy, and with a study guide by Robert Brandom, this publication of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind makes a difficult but indisputably significant figure in the development of analytic philosophy clear and comprehensible to anyone who would understand that philosophy or its history.
Author |
: Paolo Parrini |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages |
: 409 |
Release |
: 2010-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822970729 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822970724 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Logical Empiricism by : Paolo Parrini
Logical empiricism, a program for the study of science that attempted to provide logical analyses of the nature of scientific concepts, the relation between evidence and theory, and the nature of scientific explanation, formed among the famed Vienna and Berlin Circles of the 1920s and '30s and dominated the philosophy of science throughout much of the twentieth century. In recent decades, a "post-positivist" philosophy, deriding empiricism and its claims in light of more recent historical and sociological discoveries, has been the ascendant mode of philosophy and other disciplines in the arts and sciences.This book features original research that challenges such broad oppositions. In eleven essays, leading scholars from many nations construct a more nuanced understanding of logical empiricism, its history, and development, offering promising implications for current philosophy of science debates.Tapping rich resources of unpublished material from archives in Haarlem, Konstanz, Pittsburgh, and Vienna, contributors conduct a deep investigation into the origins and development of the Vienna and Berlin Circles. They expose the roots of the philosophy in such varied sources as Cassirer, Poincaire, Husserl, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Important connections between the empiricists and other movements—neo-empiricism, British empiricism—are vigorously explored.Building on these historical studies, a critical reevaluation emerges that shrinks the distance between old and new philosophers of science, between "analytic" and "Continental" philosophy. A number of compelling recent debates, including those involving Kuhn, Feyerabend, Hesse, Glymour, and Hanson, are reopened to show the ways in which logical empiricist theory can still be validly applied.Logical Empiricism is the result of a remarkable conference, convened in the spirit of reflection and international cooperation, that took place in Florence, Italy, in 1999.
Author |
: Marc Gasser-Wingate |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197567456 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197567452 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aristotle's Empiricism by : Marc Gasser-Wingate
Though Aristotle is often thought to be an empiricist--someone who thinks all knowledge is somehow derived from perception--the philosopher is often thought to have little to say on these matters. Gasser-Wingate here offers a sustained examination of these discussions and their epistemological, psychological, and ethical implications. It defends an interpretation of Aristotle as a moderate sort of empiricist, who thinks we can develop sophisticated forms of knowledge by broadly perceptual means, and that we therefore share an important part of our cognitive lives with nonrational animals, but al.
Author |
: Len Doyal |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2013-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135028701 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135028702 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empiricism, Explanation and Rationality by : Len Doyal
Originally published in 1986. All students of social science must confront a number of important philosophical issues. This introduction to the philosophy of the social sciences provides coherent answers to questions about empiricism, explanation and rationality. It evaluates contemporary writings on the subject which can be as difficult as they are important to understand. Each chapter has an annotated bibliography to enable students to pursue the issues raised and to assess for themselves the arguments of the authors.