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Wayne Waxman Here Presents An Ambitious And Comprehensive Attempt To Link The Philosophers Of What Are Known As The British Empiricists - Locke, Berkeley, And Hume - To The Philosophy Of German Philosopher Immanuel Kant. Much Has Been Written About All These Thinkers, Who Are Among The Most Influential Figures In The Western Tradition. Waxman Argues That, Contrary To Conventional Wisdom, Kant Is Actually The Culmination Of The British Empiricist Program And That He Shares Their Methodological Assumptions And Basic Convictions About Human Thought And Knowledge.--jacket. General Introduction : The Emergence Of Kant's Transcendental Psychologism -- Ch. 1. Kant And British Empiricism -- Ch. 2. Kant's Extension Of Humean Skepticism To Mathematics -- Ch. 3. Kantian Way Out Of Hume's Quandary -- Ch. 4. Hostage To Stereotypes -- Ch. 5. Locke's Theory Of Ideas -- Ch. 6. Perception And The Synthesis Of Experience -- Ch. 7. Objective Understanding -- Ch. 8. Understanding In Language -- Ch. 9. Knowledge And Skepticism -- Ch. 10. Berkeley's Separability Principle : Semantics, Psychology, And Ontology -- Ch. 11. Berkeleyan Idealism : The Inseparability Of Existence, Sensation, And Perception --

Author
Wayne Waxman
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Published
2005
Language
EN
ISBN
9781423761914
Subjects
Philosophy, History, Humanities

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