Understanding Empiricism

By:

Meyers, Robert G

Contributor(s):

Meyers, Robert G

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Understanding Movements in Modern Thought ; 200600ENGGPS1Publication details: London Routledge 2006Description: 183pISBN:

9781844650590

DDC classification:

N72 M576

Partial contents:

1 Locke, knowledge and the innate Locke on innate knowledge Locke`s new way of ideas Knowledge and real existence Nominal and real essences Summary 2 Berkeley`s defence of idealism Berkeley`s arguments Some misconceptions The attack on Locke Summary 3 Induction and Hume`s empiricism Hume`s Treatise and first Enquiry The defence of empiricism The problem of induction Hume`s "skeptical solution" The nature of causation Summary 4 Foundations and empiricism Foundations and its alternatives Acquaintance, appearing and the given The myth of the given Reliability and Sellars`s coherence theory Foundations and coherence Summary 5 Empiricism and the a priori Necessity, the analytic and the a priori Varieties of empiricism The notion of the a priori Objections to the a priori Is the a priori indispensable? Summary 6 Empiricism and skepticism Skepticism, fallibilism and empiricism Locke and the veil of perception Some metaphysical alternatives The general problem of the external world Induction, perception and memory Further problems: the new riddle Empiricism and common sense Summary 7 Empiricism and religious belief The argument from design Hume`s criticisms Chance and design Faith, reason and miracles Hume and miracles The argument from religious experience Summary

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includes index and biblioraphy

1 Locke, knowledge and the innate
Locke on innate knowledge
Locke`s new way of ideas
Knowledge and real existence
Nominal and real essences
Summary
2 Berkeley`s defence of idealism
Berkeley`s arguments
Some misconceptions
The attack on Locke
Summary
3 Induction and Hume`s empiricism
Hume`s Treatise and first
Enquiry The defence of empiricism
The problem of induction
Hume`s "skeptical solution"
The nature of causation
Summary
4 Foundations and empiricism
Foundations and its alternatives
Acquaintance, appearing and the given
The myth of the given
Reliability and Sellars`s coherence theory
Foundations and coherence
Summary
5 Empiricism and the a priori
Necessity, the analytic and the a priori
Varieties of empiricism
The notion of the a priori
Objections to the a priori
Is the a priori indispensable?
Summary
6 Empiricism and skepticism
Skepticism, fallibilism and empiricism
Locke and the veil of perception
Some metaphysical alternatives
The general problem of the external world Induction, perception and memory
Further problems: the new riddle
Empiricism and common sense
Summary
7 Empiricism and religious belief
The argument from design
Hume`s criticisms
Chance and design
Faith, reason and miracles
Hume and miracles
The argument from religious experience
Summary

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