num_pages: 192
description: "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.
language: English
title: The Empiricists
titlecomplete: The Empiricists (History of Western Philosophy, 5)
genres: Nonfiction, History, Philosophy
ratings_count: 49
series: History of Western Philosophy
publisher: Oxford University Press