This book begins with an observation : At the time when empiricism arose and slowly established itself, the word itself had not yet been coined. Hence the central question of this volume : What does it mean to conduct empirical science in early modern Europe? How can we catch th…
"'One of the great historic controversies in philosophy' was how Bertrand Russell described the ideological conflict between rationalists and empiricists -- the conflict between reason and experience as sources of knowledge and ideas. Yet in this study of the empiricists R.S. Wo…
"'One of the great historic controversies in philosophy' was how Bertrand Russell described the ideological conflict between rationalists and empiricists -- the conflict between reason and experience as sources of knowledge and ideas. Yet in this study of the empiricists R.S. Wo…