Hume's skepticism is based entirely on his denial of the principle of
induction, proving that pure empiricism is not a sufficient basis for
science, that ……展开↓
Hume carried through the methods of experimental philosophy and the
principles of empiricism, and came to the skeptical conclusion that much
of what humans ……展开↓
We seem to see that in a single example of the action of various
bodies, we cannot discover anything, though we examine it with great
care; we can only ……展开↓
Our inferences regarding matters of fact are ultimately based in
probability. If experience teaches us that two events are conjoined
quite frequently, the ……展开↓
The Crowed, written by French psychologist and sociologist Gustave Le
Bon, is often regarded as the founding work of group psychology. The
focus of this book……展开↓
A Study of Human Understanding embodies Hume's inheritance and
development of English empiricism from Locke onwards. Russell, in his
History of Western ……展开↓