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R. S. Woolhouse
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The Empiricists (History of Western Philosophy, No 5) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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192 |
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1988-02-11 |
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019289188X |
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Oxford University Press, USA |
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0.35 pounds |
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5.08 x 0.55 x 7.6 inches |
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"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.
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