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The Empiricists (A History of Western Philosophy): 5 - Softcover

Woolhouse, R. S.

 
9780192891884: The Empiricists (A History of Western Philosophy): 5

Synopsis

Setting the British empiricists--Locke, Berkeley, and Hume--in their contemporary and cultural context, Woolhouse examines their approaches to philosophy and their significance to 20th-century thought, and looks at what the empiricists actually have to say, rather than their classification as such.

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About the Author

R. S. Woolhouse is Reader in Philosophy at the University of York.

From the Back Cover

'One of the great historic controversies in philosophy' was how Bertrand Russell described the ideological conflict between rationalist and empiricists-the conflict between reason and experience as sources of knowledge and ideas.

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