Empiricism

4 philosophers

Hume

EmpiricismScotland1711

The problem of induction: we can never prove the sun will rise tomorrow. His bundle theory...

Locke

EmpiricismEngland1632

The father of liberalism and empirical epistemology. The tabula rasa or blank slate theory...

Berkeley

EmpiricismIreland1685

Argued that material substance does not exist, only minds and ideas. The phrase esse est p...

Francis Bacon

EmpiricismEngland1561

Declared that knowledge is power. The Novum Organum proposed induction in place of syllogi...