Kant and the Empiricists
Subtitle: Understanding Understanding
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 10, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9780195177398
First sentence: My purpose in this book is to expound the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant as a continuation of British Empiricism by nonempiricist means.
Description: "Wayne Waxman here presents an ambitious and comprehensive attempt to link the philosophers of what are known as the British Empiricists - Locke, Berkeley, and Hume - to the philosophy of German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Much has been written about all these thinkers, who are among the most influential figures in the Western tradition. Waxman argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Kant is actually the culmination of the British Empiricist program and that he shares their methodological assumptions and basic convictions about human thought and knowledge."--Jacket.