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The Empiricists

出版	Oxford University Press, 1988
主題	Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralPhilosophy / History & Surveys / GeneralPhilosophy / Movements / Empiricism
ISBN	01921920789780192192073
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=usHWAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"'One of the great historic controversies in philosophy' was how Bertrand Russell described the ideological conflict between rationalists and empiricists -- the conflict between reason and experience as sources of knowledge and ideas. Yet in this study of the empiricists R.S. Woolhouse is not so much concerned to justify these conventional labels as to set forth the dominant philosophical ideas and let those ideas speak for themselves. Setting the empiricist philosophers in their contemporary cultural context the author examines their various approaches to philosophy. He concentrates primarily on the major figures ...but also discusses the unjustly neglected French philosopher Pierre Gassendi and devotes a chapter to the Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge, which was founded in the 1660s. While focusing on their contribution to the 'new philosophy' of the seventeenth century, which was primarily concerned with the nature of knowledge and science, he also highlights the moral and political aspects of their work and emphasizes the significance of their ideas to twentieth-century thinking" -- Back cover.