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