PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Empiricism

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

The article analyses E. Bulwer-Lytton’s short story “The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain” (1859) and its connection to the key philosophical movements of Victorian age, such as spiritualism, positivism and empiricism. Adopting the formal features of Gothic fiction and retaining the elements of horror and mystery, the author reinterprets the Gothic tradition completely, using established literar…

Reference · Wikidata

theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

In philosophy, empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes either only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence. It is one of several competing views within epistemology, along with rationalism and skepticism. Empiricists argue that empiricism is a more reliable method of finding the truth than relying purely on logical reasoning, because humans hav…

Book · DOAB

This open access volume is based on the 'Early Carnap in Context’ workshop that took place in Konstanz in 2017 and looks at Rudolf Carnap’s philosophy, documented in his recently released diaries, from a combination of historical, cultural and philosophical perspectives. It enables further evaluation of the diaries and traces newly found interrelationships and their systematic definition. From a cultural and histori…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

Issue 57.5 of the Review for Religious, September/October 1998.