Readings in Epistemology From Aquinas, Bacon, Galileo, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant

Name: Readings in Epistemology From Aquinas, Bacon, Galileo, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant
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ISBN: 9780823214921

ISBN-10: 0823214923

ISBN-13: 9780823214921

Edition: 2nd 1993

Authors: Vincent G. Potter, S. J. Colapietro

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A companion volume to On Understanding Understanding, this second edition incorporates corrections to the previous text and includes new readings. The works collected in this volume are mainly from the British Empiricists. The breadth of the selection is not so diverse that the pieces cannot be readily understood by a newcomer to Epistemology, they have a logical progression of development (from Locke to Berkeley to Hume), and all of the philosophers whose work is represented have had great influence on contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. In the Introduction, Potter sets the selections in their historical context and urges the readers to form their own viewpoint in terms of the periods…

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List price: $39.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Francis Bacon


From Novum Organum



Galileo Galilei


From The Assayer



Rene Descartes


From A Discourse on Method


From Meditations on the First Philosophy



John Locke


From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding



George Berkeley


From A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge



David Hume


From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding



Immanuel Kant


From Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics


From Critique of Pure Reason


From An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?


Appendix: St. Thomas Aquinas


From Summa Theologiae