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	Empiricism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Within historiography, empiricism refers to empiricist historiography, a school of documentary interpretation and historical teleology derived from the works of Ranke.
		Theories of the existence of innate ideas were the subject of much debate between the Continental rationalists and British empiricists in the seventeenth century.
		Moderate empiricists believe that all human knowledge of "matter of fact propositions" is purely empirical.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Empiricism (975 words)

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		Empiricists claim that for human beings there is no pure reason and that all knowledge is a posteriori and derived from sense experience by induction.
		He clearly conceived of himself as an empiricist but was careful to distinguish his notion of experience both from that of the idealist tradition and from the empiricism of the classical British variety.
		Throughout this and others of his works, Quine’s empiricist attitude may be encountered, however, I found the majority of his works deal with the regimentation of ordinary language (language and meaning) as opposed to a strict ontologic attitude.
	personal.ecu.edu /mccartyr/american/leap/empirici.htm (2615 words)

	BritishEmpiricism in SocialThoughtWiki
		Although British Empiricists disavowed innate ideas, in favor of ideas from experience, it is important to note that the Empiricists did not reject the notion of instinct or innateness in general.
		What Empiricists deny, though, is that we are born with detailed, picture-like, concepts of God, causality, and even mathematics.
		Like Bacon, British Empiricists also moved away from deductive proofs and used an inductive method of arguing which was more conducive to the data of experience.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /classes/cluster21/wiki/index.pl?diff=BritishEmpiricism (838 words)

	British Philosophy at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
		The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought' : 1640-1740 by Stephen L. Darwall.
		British Empiricists staunchly rejected the theory of innate ideas and argued that knowledge is based on both sense experience and internal mental experiences, such as emotions and self-reflection.
		In recognition of his apologetic writings, he was given the prebend of St. Pancras in St. Paul's Cathedral; the subdeanery of Lincoln, in 1795; and the rectory of Bishop Warmouth in 1795; and transferred his residence to Lincoln shortly before his death.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~topics/html/british_philosophy.htm (1438 words)

	empiricists - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The empiricists rejected abstractions and general medical...argument, on no mans authority." 9 To the empiricists, disease was not an entity but a group...
		The difficulty for hard-boiled rational empiricists, such as science writer John Horgan, who are unimpressed by traditional religious solutions to the problem of life, is that...
		While history may be defined by empiricists as the pursuit of the truth of the past (demonstrated by...the reality of the past tend not to be postmodernists but empiricists who tell lies.
	www.questia.com /SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=empiricists (1449 words)

	John Buridan on the Acquisition of Simple Substantial Concepts, or, Buridan’s Refutation of British Empiricism
		On the other hand, the claim that complex substantial concepts cannot be made up from accidental concepts (contrary to the British empiricists’ conception of collections of sensory ideas) is proved here with reference to Buridan’s doctrine of the semantics of substantial vs. accidental terms and concepts, as being absolute vs. connotative terms and concepts.
		What Buridan’s argument shows is that the assumption that substantial concepts are collections of connotative concepts, which is precisely the implication of the British empiricist conception, would lead to the absurd conclusion that a substantial term would not be a substantial term, for then it would be subordinated to a non-substantial concept.
		To be sure, the British empiricists, who provided precisely this sort of analysis for substantial terms, happily embraced this conclusion, and did not regard it as absurd at all.
	www.fordham.edu /gsas/phil/klima/BuridanSubstantialConcepts.htm (4832 words)

	Dr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The course aims at establishing a working knowledge about British Empiricism which should suffice for any oral exam on the subject and enable participants to work with texts related to the empiricist tradition, as well as improve their general ability to work with philosophical texts in English during their advanced studies.
		The course will be based on the excellent introductory survey "The British Empiricists" by Stephen Priest, London 1990.
		No previous knowledge of philosophy is required, and the Empiricists still heavily influence political discussion in Britain, so they might be interesting in terms of "Landeskunde".
	www.uni-rostock.de /fakult/philfak/fkw/iph/strobach/veranst/empiricists/empiricists2.html (225 words)

	ContinentalRationalism in SocialThoughtWiki
		Continental Rationalism is usually understood in relation to its rival 17th century movement, British Empiricism, founded by John Locke.
		British Empiricists, as we will see, staunchly rejected this view, and argued that all ideas trace ultimately trace back to experiences, such as sense perceptions and emotions.
		Although empiricists also used deductive reasoning, they put a greater emphasis on the inductive method championed by fellow British countryman Francis Bacon.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /classes/cluster21/wiki/index.pl?ContinentalRationalism (396 words)

	Psych 601 Unit 3 Module 6
		The empiricist notions of John Locke, that sensation produces ideas and that some kind of mental adhesive molds the whole mix together, were elaborated upon by the English metaphysician David Hartley.
		James Mill, his father, as a good British environmentalist, had claimed that it was obvious his son should be bright; after all, he received unusual training by his father.
		The British empiricists and French materialists thus laid the foundation for the two major American theoretical systems, behaviorism and psychoanalysis.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~psych601/unit3/636.htm (2807 words)

	Great Philosophers: Hypatia
		Locke (1632-1704) is one of the great British Empiricists.
		Other British philosophers in the empiricist tradition include George Berkeley, David Hume, and John Stuart Mill.
		Empiricists are typically opposed by philosophers who hold that some aspects of the human mind are built-in and not acquired by sensory experience.
	oregonstate.edu /instruction/phl201/modules/Philosophers/Locke/locke.html (585 words)

	David Hume - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many regard Hume as the third and most radical of the so-called British Empiricists, after the English John Locke and the Anglo-Irish George Berkeley, both major influences on Hume's thought.
		He was also influenced by various Francophone writers such as Pierre Bayle, as well as various other figures on the Anglophone intellectual landscape such as Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, Francis Hutcheson, and Joseph Butler.
		They range freely over questions of aesthetic judgement, the nature of the British government, love, marriage and polygamy, and the demographics of ancient Greece and Rome, to name just a few of the topics considered.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Hume (3742 words)

	John Locke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Locke has often been classified, along with David Hume and George Berkeley, as a British Empiricist.
		His adherence to this doctrine is what marks him out as an empiricist rather than a rationalist such as his critic Leibniz, who wrote the New Essays on Human Understanding.
		Book II of the Essay sets out Locke's theory of ideas, including his distinction between passively acquired simple ideas, such as "red," "sweet," "round," etc., and actively built complex ideas, such as numbers, causes and effects, abstract ideas, ideas of substances, identity, and diversity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Locke (2336 words)

	Western Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The British representatives of the Enlightenment were the English Empiricists (Thomas Hobbes and John Locke) and the Scottish Enlightenment.
		British philosophy had its beginnings in the relatively open social conditions of pre-Revolutionary England with the British Empiricists Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and during the period of the Restoration, John Locke.
		Apart from early Empiricists, the very many natural scientists contributing to every branch of science and those already listed under the heading of British Political Economy, the notables of British philosophy are the mathematicians Bertrand Russell and Alan Turing and British feminists from Sylvia and Adela Pankhurst to Sheila Rowbotham and Juliet Mitchell.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/help/collect.htm (2071 words)

	Course Outline for Early Modern Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The historical context, viewed from practically any perspective, is dynamic and fascinating with regard to the interplay of polyglot forces so that some familiarity with it is essential to a well grounded appreciation of the ideas which will be the focus of this course.
		The continental retionalists - Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza - and the British empiricists - Locke, Berkeley, Hume - are the prominent philosophers of the period.
		There will be three or four papers of modest length, two on the Continental Rationalists, and one or two on the British Empiricists.
	marcus.whitman.edu /~phillips/earlymodern (450 words)

	cp.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Whereas the British Empiricists tended toward establishing dualisms, Dewey would have none of them.
		Inquiry for pragmatists was empirical, however, not in the same way that the British Empiricists believed it to be empirical.
		Dewey pointed out that British Empiricism was retrospective, focused upon antecedent phenomena; while pragmatism was interested in the consequent phenomena (Muelder,Sears and Schlabach, 1960).
	asterix.ednet.lsu.edu /~maxcy/cp.html (3944 words)

	Military Doctrine Or Pseudo-Military Doctrinairism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Our class enemies are empiricists, that is, they operate from one case to the next, guided not by the analysis of historical development but by practical experience, routine, coup d’oeil and flair.
		While they tack and veer with great skill, the British empiricists of the epoch of decline—whose finished expression is Lloyd George—will inescapably break their necks.
		While it can be said of the more far-sighted empiricists of British imperialism that they have a keyring with a considerable choice of keys, good for many typical historical situations, we hold in our hands a universal key which enables us to orientate ourselves correctly in all situations.
	www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1922-mil/ch37.htm (12787 words)

	§17. Philosophical Professors. XVII. Later Philosophy. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The Cambridge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At Harvard Francis Bowen continued for many years to oppose dialectic Hegelianism as well as the “mind philosophy” of the British empiricists; but his assistant and successor, the gentle and classical minded G. Palmer, turned in the main to the Hegelian idealism introduced at Harvard in 1869 by C. Everett.
		His successor, Ormond, so expanded the realism of his master with Berkeleian and Kantian elements as to make it lose its historic identity.
		Noah Porter had studied in Germany under Trendelenburg, and his great textbook on The Human Mind (1868) showed a painstaking, if not a penetrating, knowledge of Herbart, Lotze, and Wundt as well as of the British empiricists.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/227/1017.html (388 words)

	Introduction to British Empiricism
		Bacon is an early example of the second major “school of thought” in the Early Modern period: the British Empiricists.
		Whereas the rationalists seek to derive knowledge from a priori axioms (truths which are held to be "indubitable") by means of strictly deductive procedures; the British Empiricists assign a fundamental role to sensory experience (whether as the source of, object of, or justificatory check upon our knowledge claims).
		Like the Continental Rationalists, the British Empiricists begin with our ideas, but where the rationalists begin with a priori innate principles or ideas which are self-evident and form the basis for deductive knowledge, the empiricists “begin with” sensory ideas which form the source or basis for (or object of, or test for) a posteriori knowledge.
	www.fiu.edu /~hauptli/IntroductionToBritishEmpiricism.html (2907 words)

	Empiricism, Naturalism, and Theism
		In a rough sense, a modern empiricist would be comfortable merely with the former while a classic empiricist would be comfortable merely with the latter.
		It is presumptuous to suggest that the modern (or British) empiricists denied belief in the existence of a divine being, or God, simply because they were empiricists.
		First, even if the various empiricists thought that a proper epistemological structure was only what can be perceived via the five senses, the fact remains that the most ardent critics, such as Hobbes and Hume, still gave tacit admission to the existence of God.
	sguthrie.net /empiricism.htm (3153 words)

	Ed Brandon - Critiques of metaphysics PH3903
		And he thereby tries to accommodate what he thought was the status of the knowledge mankind had arrived at by that time: knowledge in mathematics and physics that was as secure as anything can be.
		The empiricists, Hume in particular, could not account for knowledge with such a status.
		But Kant agreed with the anti-rationalist strain in the empiricists to the extent that he thought that we could not get any knowledge that goes beyond the bounds of sensory experience.
	www.cavehill.uwi.edu /bnccde/PH39C/meta4.html (1867 words)

	Psych 601 Unit 5 Module 1
		The British empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, Hume) and their followers (Condillac, Herbart, Lotze, and Wundt) maintained that space perception was empirical or genetic.
		From the time of classical Greece in 350 B.C., through the middle ages and then the controversy among British empiricists and German philosophers during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, deductive argument was the basis for theories of the mind.
		It was quite natural, therefore, that in the latter half of the nineteenth century, when scientific development was reaching it's apex (with startling advances in chemistry, physics, and now even physiology), that attempts would be made to extend this thinking to the human sciences of sociology and psychology.
	online.sfsu.edu /~psych601/unit5/651.htm (6610 words)

	George Berkeley [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		George Berkeley was one of the three most famous eighteenth century British Empiricists (see LOCKE, JOHN and HUME, DAVID).
		As was common practice for British academics at the time, Berkeley was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1710.
		He obtained a charter for the college, private contributions, and a promise for a grant of £20,000 from the British Parliament.
	www.iep.utm.edu /b/berkeley.htm (7594 words)

	rev2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John Locke is usually given credit for founding British Empiricism.
		James Mill held to a position of mental compounding, which all the previous British empiricists held to, at least as far back as Locke.
		What is elementism in the way it has been handled by the British Empiricists and Associationists?
	core.ecu.edu /psyc/evansr/p4280studyguide02.htm (483 words)

	Ch 3 Knowledge
		Confident in the powers of reason to attain knowledge of the truth.
		British Empiricists (England, Scotland, Ireland): knowledge comes from experience.
		British empiricists said "perception comes from sense data and understanding."
	faculty.whatcom.ctc.edu /chagman/ch31.htm (841 words)

	CHAPTER 10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The associationists, like most of the British empiricists before them, excluding Hobbes, explained psychological phenomena primarily in terms of lawful relations among ideas existing quite apart from any bodily context.
		It was Hartley's work that restored the body, specifically the brain and its functioning as the underlying foundation for mental events.
		Hearnshaw, A Short History of British Psychology: 1840-1940 (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1964), p.
	core.ecu.edu /psyc/evansr/EVANS10ex2.htm (5520 words)

	Thomistic Institute 2001: Dougherty
		Schooled in the British empiricism of the day, Comte not only ruled out metaphysics but ruled out theoretical physics as well and both for the same reason, a denial of the efficacy of causal reasoning.
		Presupposed by Aristotle are two principles, the principle of causality and the principle of substance, both principles rejected by the British empiricists.
		The empiricists notwithstanding, reasoning on a causal basis from the observed to the unobserved is in common practice in the natural sciences.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/ti01/doughert.htm (3307 words)

	Graduate Seminars
		The general aim of this course will be to familiarize students with the central doctrines and principles of the great British empiricists: Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume.
		In this way, we will be especially concerned with the related topics of "God, Scepticism and Knowledge" as they appear in the works of the major British empiricists.
		A sub-theme of the course will be to compare and contrast Clarke's rationalist commitments with the views of the British empiricists.
	www.unc.edu /depts/phildept/GradSeminarsSpring05.htm (1629 words)

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