Understanding Empiricism
- London Routledge 2006
- 183p
- Understanding Movements in Modern Thought; 200600ENGGPS1 .
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