The empiricists
Subtitle: a guide for the perplexed
By: Laurence Carlin.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781847061997; 9781847062000
Subjects: Empiricism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The empiricists and their context; title: Empiricism and the empiricists; title: The intellectual background to the early modern empiricists; title: Martin Luther and the Reformation; title: Aristotelian cosmology and the scientific revolution; title: Aristotelian/scholastic hylomorphism and the rise of mechanism; title: The Royal Society of London; title: Francis Bacon (1561-1626); title: The natural realm : the idols of the mind; title: Idols of the tribe; title: Idols of the cave; title: Idols of the marketplace; title: Idols of the theatre; title: Knowledge and experience : induction introduced; title: Aristotelian/scholastic syllogisms : deductions dismissed; title: Baconian empiricism : induction introduced; title: Conclusion: Bacon the empiricist; title: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679); title: The natural realm : Hobbes's materialistic mechanism; title: The importance of motion; title: Sensation and the mind; title: Knowledge and experience : definitions and the euclidean method; title: Two kinds of knowledge and proper ratiocination; title: The method of analysis and the method of synthesis; title: Conclusion: Hobbes, the empiricist; title: Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655); title: The natural realm : Gassendi's atomism; title: The basic principles of Gassendi's atomism; title: Atomistic sensation; title: Knowledge and experience : the middle way to knowledge; title: The sceptics are partly correct; title: Knowledge regained?; title: Conclusion: Gassendi. the empiricist; title: Robert Boyle (1627-1691); title: The natural realm : Boyle's mechanism (corpuscularianism); title: The basic principles of Boyle's mechanism (or corpscularianism); title: Sensation and the mind; title: Knowledge and experience : mechanism and the cautious experimenter; title: The excellency of mechanism; title: Experimentation and the status of mechanism; title: Conclusion: Boyle, the empiricist; title: John Locke (1632-1704); title: The natural realm : Locke's mechanism; title: Against innatism; title: Ideas and the tabula rasa; title: Primary and secondary qualities, and our confused idea of substance; title: Locke on power; title: Knowledge and experience : Locke's epistemology; title: Indirect realism, or the representational theory of perception; title: The certainty of knowledge; title: The origin of knowledge; title: The extent of knowledge; title: Conclusion: Locke, the empiricist; title: Isaac Newton (1642-1727); title: The natural realm : Newton's principia; title: A world of forces : universal gravitation; title: What kind of quality is gravity?; title: Mechanism and action at a distance; title: Knowledge and experience : rules for the study of natural philosophy; title: The four rules; title: Whither natural philosophy; title: Conclusion: Newton, the empiricist; title: George Berkeley (1685-1753); title: The natural realm : Berkeley's idealism; title: The world contains only souls and ideas; title: Esse est percipi : two arguments for idealism/immaterialism; title: Against the primary/secondary quality distinction; title: Knowledge and experience : Berkeley's common sense epistemology; title: Against the representational theory of perception; title: Defeating the skeptic, and returning to common sense; title: Mechanism, newtonianism, and instrumentalism : Berkeley on the new science; title: Responses to popular objections; title: Conclusion: Berkeley, the empiricist; title: David Hume (1711-1776); title: The natural realm : Hume's psychological approach; title: Ideas and impressions; title: The principles of association; title: Knowledge and experience : Hume's semi-scepticism; title: Relations of ideas vs. matters of fact; title: From matters of fact to cause and effect : Hume's first question; title: Knowledge of cause and effect : Hume's second question; title: The problem of induction : Hume's third question; title: Hume's positive account of causation : induction regained; title: Conclusion: Hume, the empiricist; title: Empiricism and the empiricists : summary and conclusion.