Empiricisms : experience and experiment from antiquity to the Anthropocene / Barry Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Barry, 1957- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Empiricism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 527 pages).

Other Title:

Experience and experiment from antiquity to the Anthropocene

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Empiricisms is about the value of experience and experiments. Why do we esteem them and what is their contribution to knowledge? The work is unique in the detail with which it explains empiricism, from its beginning in ancient medicine to its emergence as a philosophy of modern science. It elucidates the ideas of the so-called radical empiricists, clarifying their relation to historical empiricism, and explaining what is 'radical' about them, and develops a comparison between European empiricism and ideas and practice in traditional China. Bringing China into the argument is an unexpected innovation, and makes the work a model for comparative philosophy.

Contents:

I. History's Empiricisms

1. Empiricisms of Antiquity

2. Experimental Empiricisms

3. Epistemological Empiricisms

Conclusion to Part I

II. Radical Empiricisms

4. The Beginning of Radical Empiricism: William James

5 . An Empiricism Worthy of the Name: Henri Bergson

6. The Art of Experience: John Dewey

7. The Dogmas of Empiricism and the Linguistic Turn

8. Transcendental Empiricism : Gilles Deleuze

III. Empiricisms Compared

9. Empiricism with Chinese Characteristics.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-750895-2

0-19-750896-0

0-19-750894-4