Two questions often shape our view of the world. On the one hand, we ask what there is, on the other hand, we ask what there ought to be. Empirical research and normative theory, the methodological traditions concerned with these questions, entered a difficult relationship, from…
"'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…