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Routledge History of Philosophy Volume V: British Empiricism and the Enlightenment
Impressions of Empiricism (Royal Institute of Philosophy lectures) by Royal Institute of Philosophy, 1976-12
Wordsworth and Philosophy: Empiricism and Transcendentalism in the Poetry (Nineteenth-Century Studies) by Keith G. Thomas, 1989-01
Empiricism, Explanation and Rationality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Routledge Library Editions: History and Philosophy of Science) (Volume 10) by Len & Roger Doyal & Harris, 2008-10-02
The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge: Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science)
Philosophy Updated: British Empiricism Thomas Hobbes: The Laws of a Social Contract John Locke: The Blank Slate of Our Minds David Hume: Natural Religion and Human Nature by Dr. Les Sutter, 2003-08-13
Theism and empiricism, (The library of philosophy and theology) by A. Boyce Gibson, 1970
The Empiricists (A History of Western Philosophy) by R. S. Woolhouse, 1988-02-11
Thomas Kuhn's ""Linguistic Turn"" and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy) by Stefano Gattei, 2008-11-01
William James On Radical Empiricism and Religion (Toronto Studies in Philosophy) by Hunter Brown, 2000-05-26
Logical Empiricism in North America (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science)
Romantic Empiricism: Poetics and the Philosophy of Common Sense, 1780-1830
Essays on the Foundations of Mathematics by Moritz Pasch (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science)
From Radical Empiricism to Absolute Idealism (Studies in the History of Philosophy, Vol 1) (Studies in the History of Philosophy, Vol 1) by Justus Hartnack, 1987-02-01

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Dictionary Of Philosophy Of Mind - Eliminativism
Sellars, Wilfrid (1963) empiricism and the philosophy of Mind in Science, Perception, and Reality Routledge and Kegan Paul
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Extractions: we've moved to philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict . Please update any links and go there for the latest version. eliminativism The view that, because mental states and properties are items posited by a protoscientific theory (called folk psychology ), the science of the future is likely to conclude that entities such as beliefs, desires, and sensations do not exist. The alternate most often offered is physicalist and the position is thus often called 'eliminative materialism Introduction Origins of the Debate History of the Idea ... References Introduction Like its predecessor, the mind-brain identity theory, eliminativism claims that it is an empirical fact, rather than a conceptual necessity, that mental states are identical with brain states, and that this fact is justified only by scientific evidence. But most historians of science now believe that scientific progress usually does not establish identities between the entities described by old theories and new ones. The eliminativists argue that there is thus no reason to assume that such identities will be found when science develops a detailed alternative to the folk psychological view of mental states. Most criticisms of eliminativism center around the claim that folk psychology is somehow different in kind from the theories that the eliminativists are advocating as replacements. Sometimes the argument is made that mental entities are different in kind from theories, because they are directly given to us, or are part of practical activities rather than theoretical discourse. It is also argued that folk psychology must remain autonomous with respect to physical or neuroscientific theories. Some justify claims of autonomy on the assertion that psychology cannot be reduced to neuroscience. Others say that folk psychology is irreducibly normative, and because science is only descriptive, reducing folk psychology to a scientific theory would be attempting to derive an
Empiricism Books And Articles - Research Empiricism At Questia
empiricism Scholarly books and articles on empiricism at Questia, 1. empiricismHistory. 2. philosophy, Modern17th the contents of our minds in
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EMPIRICISM AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
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A Note On "Empiricism And The Philosophy Of Mind"
In empiricism and the philosophy of Mind, 1 Wilfrid Sellars launches a general critique of the entire framework of givenness, a broad attack on what he
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Extractions: by ROBERT H. GRIMM DUKE UNIVERSITY Published in Philosophical Studies In "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," Wilfrid Sellars launches "a general critique of the entire framework of givenness," a broad attack on what he calls the "Myth of the Given" (p. 254). In so doing, he questions the notion that empirical knowledge has its foundation in knowledge of a privileged stratum of particular facts, explicitly pointing out that "if observation reports are construed as actions, if their correctness is interpreted as the correctness of an action, and if the authority of an observation report is construed as the fact that making it is 'following a rule' in the proper sense of this phrase, then we are face to face with givenness in its most straightforward form" (p. 296). For, he says, on these stipulations "one is committed to a stratum of authoritative non-verbal episodes ('awareness') the authority of which accrues to a super-structure of verbal actions, provided that the expressions occurring in these actions are properly used" (p. 296), What is his alternative? He carefully rejects the notion that a token, or utterance, of an expression, "This is green" for instance, "expresses observational knowledge" if and only if the circumstances are of a certain kind, i.e. the utterance "is a manifestation of a tendency to produce overt or covert tokens of "This is green' given a certain set if and only if a green object is being looked at in standard conditions" (p. 297). This won't do, be says, because "it is the knowledge or belief that the circumstances are of a certain kind, and not the mere fact that they are of this kind, which contributes to bringing about the action" of an observation report (p. 296).
Wilfrid Sellars
empiricism and the philosophy of Mind EPM*, edited by Robert Brandom, EAE, empiricism and Abstract Entities , in The philosophy of Rudolph Carnap,
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Extractions: Please Read How You Can Help Keep the Encyclopedia Free Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (b. 1912, d. 1989) was a profoundly creative and synthetic thinker whose work both as a systematic philosopher and as an influential editor helped set and shape the Anglo-American philosophical agenda for over four decades. Sellars is perhaps best known for his classic 1956 essay "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind", a comprehensive and sophisticated critique of "the myth of the given" which played a major role in the postwar deconstruction of Cartesianism, but his published corpus of three books and more than one hundred essays includes numerous original contributions to ontology, epistemology, and the philosophies of science, language, and mind, as well as sensitive historical and exegetical studies. 1. Sellars' Life and Career
Empiricism The Philosophy That All Knowledge Is Derived From
empiricism The philosophy that all knowledge is derived from experience hence the experimental approach to Psychology often being called empirical
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Logical Positivism [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy]
Quine ( Two dogmas of empiricism in The Philosophical Review, 60, 1951) criticized both observationaltheoretical and analytic-synthetic distinction.
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Extractions: Logical Positivism Logical Positivism is a philosophical school that originated in the twentieth century as a reaction against nineteenth century Idealism. Also known as Logical Empiricism and Neo-positivism, this philosophical school was born in Austria and Germany during the 1920s under the influence of David Hume , Bertrand Russell, and the early writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein . Moritz Schlick was the founder of the Vienna Circle , a logical positivist study group in Austria, but another member of the school, Rudolf Carnap , was perhaps the leading exponent of Logical Positivism. Other notable logical positivists were Hans Reichenbach , the founder of the Berlin Circle that was similar to the Vienna Circle, Herbert Feigl, Philipp Frank, Kurt Grelling, Hans Hahn, Carl Gustav Hempel , Victor Kraft, Otto Neurath, Alfred Jules Ayer, and Friedrich Waismann. The word positivism denotes adherence to empiricism, which is the view that all human knowledge originates in or is based up only sensory experience or perception; there are no transcendental or a priori means of acquiring synthetic knowledge. Logical positivists used a strict Verifiability Principle to reject as meaningless all metaphysical, theological, ethical and aesthetic claims (and questions). The claims are not verifiable. Only logical reasoning and empirical experience, the Logical Positivists asserted, can lead to true knowledge.
Carnap, Rudolf [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy]
In 1951, Quine published the article Two Dogmas of empiricism, in which he the official position of logical empiricism on the philosophy of space.
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Extractions: 1. Life Rudolf Carnap was born on May 18, 1891, in Ronsdorf, Germany. In 1898, after his father's death, his family moved to Barmen, where Carnap studied at the Gymnasium. From 1910 to1914 he studied philosophy, physics and mathematics at the universities of Jena and Freiburg. He studied Kant under Bruno Bauch and later recalled how a whole year was devoted to the discussion of The Critique of Pure Reason . Carnap became especially interested in Kants theory of space. Carnap took three courses from Gottlob Frege in 1910, 1913 and 1914. Frege was professor of mathematics at Jena. During those courses, Frege expounded his system of logic and its applications in mathematics. However, Carnaps principal interest at that time was in physics, and by 1913 he was planning to write his dissertation on thermionic emission. His studies were interrupted by World War I and Carnap served at the front until 1917. He then moved to Berlin and studied the theory of relativity. (At that time, Albert Einstein was professor of physics at the University of Berlin.) After the war, Carnap developed a new dissertation, this time on an axiomatic system for the physical theory of space and time. He submitted a draft to physicist Max Wien, director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena, and to Bruno Bauch. Both found the work interesting, but Wien told Carnap the dissertation was pertinent to philosophy, not to physics, while Bauch said it was relevant to physics. Carnap then chose to write a dissertation under the direction of Bauch on the theory of space from a philosophical point of view. Entitled Der Raum (Space), the work was clearly influenced by Kantian philosophy. Submitted in 1921, it was published the following year in a supplemental issue of Kant-Studien.
Natural Philosophy And The Origins Of Empiricism - 4 & 5 March 2005
From empiricism to Experimental philosophy 11.3012.45 Paul Schuurman (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) The anti-Cartesian empiricism of Gerard deVries
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Willard Quine's Verification Theory And Reductionism
Source The Emergence of Logical empiricism (1996) publ. Reductionism in its radical form has long since ceased to figure in Carnap s philosophy.
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Extractions: Willard Quine (1951) Source The Emergence of Logical Empiricism (1996) publ. Garland Publishing Inc. The second half of Quine's contribution to series is reproduced here. ... What, it may be asked, of the verification theory of meaning? This phrase has established itself so firmly as a catchword of empiricism that we should be very unscientific indeed not to look beneath it for a possible key to the problem of meaning and the associated problems. The verification theory of meaning, which has been conspicuous in the literature from Peirce onward, is that the meaning of a statement it the method of empirically confirming or infirming it. An analytic statement is that limiting case which is confirmed no matter what. ... we can as well pass over the question of meanings as entities and move straight to sameness of meaning, or synonymy. Then what the verification theory says is that statements arc synonymous if and only if they are alike in point of method of empirical confirmation or infirmation. So, if the verification theory can be accepted as an adequate account of statement synonymy, the notion of analyticity is saved after all. However, let us reflect. Statement synonymy is said to be likeness of method of empirical confirmation or infirmation. just what are these methods which are to be compared for likeness? What, in other words, is the nature of the relationship between a statement and the experiences which contribute to or detract from its confirmation?
Logical Positivism: Definition And Much More From Answers.com
A philosophy asserting the primacy of observation in assessing the truth of logical empiricism Mach, Ernst (Austrian physicist and philosopher)
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Extractions: Encyclopedia logical positivism, also known as logical or scientific empiricism, modern school of philosophy that attempted to introduce the methodology and precision of mathematics and the natural sciences into the field of philosophy. The movement, which began in the early 20th cent., was the fountainhead of the modern trend that considers philosophy an analytical, rather than a speculative, inquiry. It began in the group called the Vienna Circle, which formed around Moritz Schlick when he occupied (1920s) a chair of philosophy at the Univ. of Vienna. Among its members were the philosophers Friedrich Waismann, Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, Herbert Feigl, and Victor Kraft, and the mathematicians Hans Hahn, Carl Menger, and Kurt G¶del. The movement soon had a widespread following in Europe and the United States. Among those philosophers whose work was influenced by the Vienna Circle are A. J. Ayer and Gilbert Ryle . The position of the original logical positivists was a blend of the positivism of Ernst Mach with the logical concepts of Gottlob
Empiricism - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy entry on Rationalism vs. empiricism. Retrieved from http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/empiricism
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Extractions: Empiricism greek ÎµÎ¼ÏÎµÎ¹ÏÎ¹ÏÎ¼ÏÏ, from empirical, latin experientia - the experience), is the philosophical doctrine that all human knowledge comes at first from senses and experience. Empiricism denies that humans have innate ideas or that anything is knowable prior to any experience. Empiricism is contrasted with continental rationalism , epitomized by Ren© Descartes . According to the rationalist, philosophy should be performed via introspection and a priori deductive reasoning . Names associated with empiricism include St. Thomas Aquinas Aristotle Thomas Hobbes (also see naturalism Francis Bacon John Locke George Berkeley , and David Hume It is generally regarded as being at the heart of the modern scientific method , that our theories should be based on our observations of the world rather than on intuition or faith ; that is, empirical research and a posteriori inductive reasoning rather than purely deductive logic Empirical is an adjective often used in conjunction with science , both the natural and social sciences , which means the use of working hypotheses which are capable of being disproved using observation or experiment (ie: ultimately through experience In a second sense empirical in science may be synonymous with experimental . In this sense, an empirical result is an experimental observation. In this context, the term
Analytic Philosophy - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
The tradition of Analytic philosophy began with Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, GE Moore, Logical positivism and logical empiricism
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Extractions: Analytic philosophy is the dominant philosophical movement of English-speaking countries. The term analytic philosophy is slightly ambiguous and generally has three meanings: doctrine, method, and tradition. The doctrines most often called "analytic philosophy" are logical positivism and logical atomism ; more loosely, the term can refer to ordinary language philosophy common sense philosophy , or some amalgam of the above. This usage made some sense until the 1950s, when most prominent "analytic" philosophers were commonly engaged in a few related research programmes and committed to similar basic theses; but it is increasingly misleading, as very few contemporary analytic philosophers adhere to any of these schools, let alone all of them. The method of Analytic philosophy is a generalized approach to philosophy. Originally associated with the projects of logical analysis , it nowadays emphasizes a clear, precise approach with particular weight being placed upon argumentation and evidence, avoidance of ambiguity, and attention to detail. This has made many philosophical subjects more suited to specialization and precision work, and also made many writings more technical than they were in the past. Arguably it has also resulted in philosophy having less of the sweeping "meaning of life" scope that is popularly associated with the term, and the critics of analytic philosophy sometimes level this point against it. On the other hand, it has arguably added focus and rigor, allowing for debate and a reduction in philosophers talking past each other.
Empiricism
empiricism, in philosophy, a doctrine that affirms that all knowledge is based The philosophy opposed to empiricism is rationalism, represented by such
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Extractions: Empiricism , in philosophy, a doctrine that affirms that all knowledge is based on experience, and denies the possibility of spontaneous ideas or a priori thought. Until the 20th century the term empiricism In recent years the term empiricism has taken on a more flexible meaning, and now is used in connection with any philosophical system that finds all of its materials in experience. In the United States, William James called his own philosophy radical empiricism, and John Dewey coined the term immediate empiricism for his view of experience. The term empirical laws is applied to those laws that express relationships observed to exist among phenomena, without implying the explanation or cause of the phenomena. Return to Ron's Home Page
Empiricism
A short essay defining empiricism and its history in ancient Greece, in the West lie in their most developed form in the philosophy of Aristotle,
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Extractions: Chinese Philosophy Neo-Confucianism li which emanated from the Great Ultimate tao ch'i that principle operating through the material force ch'i explained all phenomena. Humans could understand that principle by studying anything for the human mind is perfectly identical with the Universal Mind or Universal Principle; however, this principle inhered in all things: one's mind, biology, politics, or whatever. Careful empirical study of a particular phenomenon would to the discerning mind reveal the principle at work in the universe. The result of this was a rapid growth in scientific knowledge in China as well as dramatic inventions, but unlike Aristotle and the European Enlightenment, knowledge of the world was seen as integral and coherent rather than divided into separate endeavors. Richard Hooker
Philosophical Dictionary: Empedocles-Equivocation
More specifically, empiricism is the epistemological theory that genuine information More technically, in the philosophy of Aristotle, energeia is the
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Extractions: Empedocles d. 433 BCE Greek presocratic philosopher who supposed that the four elements are irreducible components of the world, joined to and separated from each other by competing principles filia [philia] neikoV ... [neikos] Recommended Reading: Empedocles: The Extant Fragments at Amazon.com Empedocles at Amazon.com Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition at Amazon.com Also see John Burnet IEP S. Marc Cohen Charles Ess ... WSB , and BIO empiricism Reliance on experience as the source of ideas and knowledge. More specifically, empiricism is the epistemological theory that genuine information about the world must be acquired by a posteriori means, so that nothing can be thought without first being sensed . Prominent modern empiricists include Bacon Locke Berkeley Hume , and Mill . In the twentieth century, empiricism principles were extended and applied by the pragmatists and the logical positivists Recommended Reading: The Empiricists at Amazon.com
Logical Empiricism, Continued
Nobushige Sawada (the former president of philosophy of Science Society Japan) philosophy and the logical empiricism (unsuccessfully, in my opinion).
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Extractions: The relationship between philosophers and scientists in Japan. We have to mention something about the relationship between philosophers of science and scientists in Japan. As I have briefly indicated, the movement of logical empiricism was developed by cooperation of scientists and philosophers. To make sure, let me mention the names of scientists in the Vienna Circle: Hans Hahn (mathematician), Philipp Frank (physicist), Otto Neurath (economist), Kurt Goedel (mathematician), and sometimes Karl Menger (economist) was associated with the Circle. And Moritz Schlick, the founder, was trained as a physicist under Max Planck (one of the founders of quantum theory), and Schlick occupied the chair of the Philosophy of Inductive Sciences in the University of Vienna-the same chair Mach and Boltzmann occupied before him. Now, how was the situation in Japan in this respect? It seems that similar things happened in Japan too. Nobushige Sawada (the former president of Philosophy of Science Society Japan) witnesses that a series of philosophical symposia were held in 50's, and mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers gathered in order to discuss common themes. However, a famous physicist disliked "old fashioned" philosophers who came from Kyoto and uttered unintelligible words*; and this physicist consulted younger philosophers (including Sawada) with better understanding of science, and proposed to make another group for discussion, which lasted, eventually, for well over ten years, until the physicist died. Such activities as this prepared the ground for establishing a professional association for philosophy of science in Japan.
Giere: Origins Of Logical Empiricism
Logical empiricism remains a strong influence in the philosophy of science, despite the discipline s shift toward more historical and naturalistic
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Extractions: Establishes a historical framework for the study of logical empiricism. Logical empiricism remains a strong influence in the philosophy of science, despite the discipline's shift toward more historical and naturalistic approaches. This latest volume in the eminent Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science series examines the main features of the intellectual milieu from which logical empiricism sprang, providing the first critical exploration of this context by authors within the Anglo-American analytic tradition of philosophy. These articles challenge the idea that logical empiricism has its origins in traditional British empiricism, pointing instead to a movement of scientific philosophy that flourished in the German-speaking areas of Europe in the first four decades of the twentieth century. The intellectual refugees from the Third Reich who brought logical empiricism to North America did so in an environment influenced by Einstein's new physics, the ascension of modern logic, the birth of the social sciences as rivals to traditional humanistic philosophy, and other large-scale social, political, and cultural themes. The contributors, including some of our most distinguished philosophers and historians of science, emphasize the connections among members of the logical empiricist movement as well as their connections with members of other major intellectual movements of the time. Focusing on the continuing influence of logical empiricism and the vitality of the issues with which its proponents struggled, this important volume provides valuable context to contemporary philosophers of science.
Logical Empiricism In North America
Gary L. Hardcastle is assistant professor of philosophy at Bloomsburg Logical empiricism, American Pragmatism, and the Fate of Scientific philosophy in
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LOGICAL EMPIRICISM: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES Edited By Paolo Par
In recent decades, a postpositivist philosophy, deriding empiricism and its claims in light of more recent historical and sociological discoveries,
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Extractions: and Merilee H. Salmon "In recent years logical empiricism and its development have become an important topic for historical reflection. The historical perspective allows us to be more detached than was possible before, to overcome old, crude caricatures and stereotypes, and to replace them with more nuanced analyses and the exposition of subtle variations in this philosophical movement, as well as in its relation to other such movements. In addition, it allows us to put related developments in contemporary philosophy in a new light. Seen as a whole, the articles in this collection achieve all of the above. The volume should not be missed by anyone interested in logical empiricism, or in the history and legacy of analytic philosophy more generally." Erich Reck, University of California, Riverside Logical empiricism, a program for the study of science that attempted to provide logical analyses of the nature of scientific concepts, the relation between evidence and theory, and the nature of scientific explanation, formed among the famed Vienna and Berlin Circles of the 1920s and '30s and dominated the philosophy of science throughout much of the twentieth century. In recent decades, a "post-positivist" philosophy, deriding empiricism and its claims in light of more recent historical and sociological discoveries, has been the ascendant mode of philosophy and other disciplines in the arts and sciences.

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