ABSTRACT
First published in 1952, British Empirical Philosophers is a comprehensive picture of one of the most important movements in the history of philosophic thought. In his introduction, Professor A. J. Ayer distinguishes the main problems of empiricism and gives a critical account of the ways in which the philosophers whose writings are included in this volume attempted to solve them. Editors Ayer and Raymond Winch bring together an authoritative abridgement of John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Bishop George Berkeley’s Principles of Human Knowledge; almost the entire first book of David Hume’s Treatise Concerning Human Nature; and extracts from Thomas Reid’s Essay on the Intellectual Powers of Man and John Stuart Mill’s Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |132 pages
John Locke
chapter |11 pages
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Of Innate Notions
chapter |71 pages
Of Ideas
chapter |17 pages
Of Words
chapter |31 pages
Of Knowledge and Opinion
part |130 pages
George Berkeley
chapter |15 pages
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
chapter |64 pages
Of the Principles of Human Knowledge
part |7 pages
David Hume
chapter |5 pages
A Treatise of Human Nature
chapter |35 pages
Part II Of the Ideas of Space and Time
chapter |89 pages
of Knowledge and Probability
chapter |75 pages
Part IV Of the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy
chapter |13 pages
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
part |26 pages
Thomas Reid
chapter |24 pages
On the Intellectual Powers of Man
part |18 pages
John Stuart Mill