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William James presents pragmatism as a method for clarifying ideas through their practical consequences and as an account of how beliefs become true through verification in experience. Across eight lectures,…
View BookJohn Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding investigates the origin, structure and limits of human knowledge. Across four Books, Locke rejects innate ideas, traces thought to sensation and reflection, analyses…
View BookDavid Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding investigates the origin, structure and limits of human knowledge. Its twelve Sections distinguish impressions from ideas, analyse association, separate relations of ideas from…
View BookGeorge Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous defends immaterialism through a lively exchange between a materialist and a spokesman for Berkeley's philosophy. Across three Dialogues, sensible qualities are shown…
View BookRené Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy leads the reader through six stages of radical doubt and rational reconstruction. It develops the certainty of the thinking self, arguments for God's existence,…
View BookRené Descartes' Discourse on the Method combines intellectual autobiography with a programme for reliable inquiry. Across six Parts, Descartes criticises inherited learning, states four methodological rules, adopts a provisional morality,…
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