The empiricists : (Record no. 124109)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781847061997 (hbk.) |
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| Classification number | 146.44 |
| Item number | CAE |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Carlin, Laurence. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The empiricists : |
| Remainder of title | a guide for the perplexed / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Laurence Carlin. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London : |
| -- | New York ; |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Continuum, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | c2009. |
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| Extent | xi, 190 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
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| Title | Guides for the perplexed |
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| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-183) and index. |
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| Formatted contents note | Introduction : The empiricists and their context -- Empiricism and the empiricists -- The intellectual background to the early modern empiricists -- Martin Luther and the Reformation -- Aristotelian cosmology and the scientific revolution -- Aristotelian/scholastic hylomorphism and the rise of mechanism -- The Royal Society of London -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- The natural realm : the idols of the mind -- Idols of the tribe -- Idols of the cave -- Idols of the marketplace -- Idols of the theatre -- Knowledge and experience : induction introduced -- Aristotelian/scholastic syllogisms : deductions dismissed -- Baconian empiricism : induction introduced -- Conclusion : Bacon the empiricist -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- The natural realm : Hobbes's materialistic mechanism -- The importance of motion -- Sensation and the mind -- Knowledge and experience : definitions and the Euclidean method -- Two kinds of knowledge and proper ratiocination -- The method of analysis and the method of synthesis -- Conclusion : Hobbes the empiricist -- Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) -- The natural realm : Gassendi's atomism -- The basic principles of Gassendi's atomism -- Atomistic sensation -- Knowledge and experience : the 'middle way' to knowledge -- The sceptics are partly correct -- Knowledge regained? -- Conclusion : Gassendi the empiricist -- Robert Boyle (1627-1691) -- The natural realm : Boyle's mechanism ('corpuscularianism') -- The basic principles of Boyle's mechanism (or 'corpscularianism') -- Sensation and the mind -- Knowledge and experience : mechanism and the cautious experimenter -- The excellency of mechanism -- Experimentation and the status of mechanism -- Conclusion : Boyle the empiricist -- John Locke (1632-1704) -- The natural realm : Locke's mechanism -- Against innatism -- Ideas and the tabula rasa -- Primary and secondary qualities, and our confused idea of substance -- Locke on power -- Knowledge and experience : Locke's epistemology -- Indirect realism, or the representational theory of perception -- The certainty of knowledge -- The origin of knowledge -- The extent of knowledge -- Conclusion : Locke the empiricist -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- The natural realm : Newton's Principia -- A world of forces : universal gravitation -- What kind of quality is gravity? -- Mechanism and action at a distance -- Knowledge and experience : rules for the study of natural philosophy -- The four rules -- Whither natural philosophy? -- Conclusion : Newton the empiricist -- George Berkeley (1685-1753) -- The natural realm : Berkeley's idealism -- The world contains only souls and ideas -- Esse est percipi : two arguments for idealism/immaterialism -- Against the primary/secondary quality distinction -- Knowledge and experience : Berkeley's common sense epistemology -- Against the representational theory of perception -- Defeating the sceptic, and returning to common sense -- Mechanism, Newtonianism, and instrumentalism : Berkeley on the new science -- Responses to popular objections -- Conclusion : Berkeley the empiricist -- David Hume (1711-1776) -- The natural realm : Hume's psychological approach -- Impressions and ideas -- The principles of association -- Knowledge and experience : Hume's semi-scepticism -- Relations of ideas vs. matters of fact -- From matters of fact to cause and effect : Hume's first question -- Knowledge of cause and effect : Hume's second question -- The problem of induction : Hume's third question -- Hume's positive account of causation : induction regained? -- Conclusion : Hume the empiricist -- Empiricism and the empiricists : summary and conclusion. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Empiricism. |
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