Introducing Empiricism by Dave Robinson

Introducing Empiricism by Dave Robinson

Our knowledge comes primarily from experience. But is experience really what it seems? Is it reliable? Empiricist philosophers accept a 'commonsense' view of the phenomena we observe and yet conclude that all we can ever know are 'ideas'. Physical reality may not exist at all! The experimental breakthroughs of Kepler, Galileo and Newton - a radical new outlook in 17th-century science - informed this great British tradition in philosophy. Introducing Empiricism outlines the arguments of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, J.S. Mill, Bertrand Russell, and the last British empiricist, A.J. Ayer. It also looks at criticisms of empiricism in the work of Kant, Wittgenstein, Karl Popper and others.

Dave Robinson is the author of numerous Introducing bestsellers including Philosophy. He has taught the subject for many years and lives in Devon.

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ISBN 13	9781840465457
ISBN 10	184046545X
Title	Introducing Empiricism
Author	Dave Robinson
Series	Introducing
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Icon Books
Year published	2004-09-02
Number of pages	176
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