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Empiricism
Empiricism is the school of Epistemology (in philosophy or psychology ) that all knowledge is the result of our experiences. (See John Locke's Tabula rasa or "blank slate" theory.) Empiricism is closely allied with (philosophical) materialism and positivism and opposed to continental rationalism or intuitionism.
Empiricism 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, inductive reasoning and deductive logic.
Names associated with empiricism include Aristotle, Francis Bacon, John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.
See also continental rationalism, (modern) rationalism.
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Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perceptual Basis (Representation and Mind) by Jesse J. Prinz
Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life by Gilles Deleuze
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind by Wilfrid Sellars
Empiricism and Subjectivity by Gilles Deleuze
Images of Science: Essays on Realism and Empiricism, With a Reply from Bas. C. Van Fraassen by Paul M. Churchland
THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE by R.D. Laing
Religion and Radical Empiricism by Nancy K. Frankenberry
Logical Empiricism in North America (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, V. 18) by Gary L. Hardcastle
Reason in Common Sense: The Life of Reason Volume 1 by George Santayan
Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
Empirical Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology by Paul K. Moser
Logical Empiricism: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives by Paolo Parrini
Three Types of Religious Philosophy (Trinity Papers No. 21) by Gordon Haddon Clark
Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
The Empiricists by George Berkeley
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