What is empiricism?
- What is empiricism?
- Who founded it and when?
- Who opposed empiricism?
- What is empiricism?
- Who founded it and when?
- Who opposed empiricism?
1 Answer
Apr 13, 2018
- Knowledge comes from experience so we should record observations and experiment.
- Bacon and Locke.
- Hobbes.
Explanation:
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Modern empiricism, founded by Bacon and Locke, is the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626), who along with Rene Descartes, became a founder of the scientific method. He also foresaw research findings on our noticing and remembering events that confirm our beliefs.
- After Bacon came John Locke (1632-1704), a British political philosopher, who wrote a one-page essay on “our own abilities” for a discussion.
- After 20 years, Locke completes An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, in which he argued that the mind at birth is a tabula rasa—a “blank slate”—on which experience writes, describing the mind of an infant.
- Locke emphasized nurture over nature as the greater influence on development.
- Thomas Hobbes (1558-1679) believed that the idea of a soul, a spirit, or a mind is meaningless.
- Hobbes’ philosophy is known as materialism, which is the belief that the only things that exist are matter and energy.
- Contrary to Locke, Hobbes stressed nature over nurture.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Bacon-Viscount-Saint-Alban
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Locke
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hobbes