Rationalism, Empiricism, and Idealism: British Academy Lectures on the History of Philosophy

by Anthony Kenny (Editor)

This collection includes papers by such leading thinkers as Michael Ayers, J.A. Passmore, Ian Hacking, Hide Ishiguro, G.E.M. Anscombe, David Pears, A.M. Quinton, and Richard Wollheim.

Genres: Philosophy

179 pages, Paperback

First published April 10, 1986

About the author

Sir Anthony Kenny is an English philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of religion.

Reviews

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A sharp, analytically informed reassessment of early modern (17th/20th century) philosophy by dismantling the opposition between rationalism and empiricism. Readings of Locke and Leibniz to Hume and the idealists, show how modern philosophy is better understood in terms of competing approaches to explanation, rather than the conceptual unity through inherited textbook labels. Concise and philosophically engaged.

The history of philosophy illuminates and carries philosophy itself forward.