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The Empiricists

"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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 192
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780192891884
  • Genres
  • philosophy, history
  • Release date
  • 1988