Empiricism on Philosophy in Summary — Thinkers & Syntheses https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/tags/empiricism/ Recent content in Empiricism on Philosophy in Summary — Thinkers & Syntheses Hugo en Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 David Hume: Empiricism, Causation, Induction, and Hume's Law https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/david-hume-empiricism-causation-induction-is-ought/ Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/david-hume-empiricism-causation-induction-is-ought/ Hume's radical empiricism: impressions and ideas, the critique of causation, the problem of induction, the self as a bundle of perceptions, and the is-ought gap. Francis Bacon — The Empirical Method and the Idols of the Mind https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/francis-bacon-empirical-method-idols-mind/ Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/francis-bacon-empirical-method-idols-mind/ Francis Bacon and the revolution of knowledge: Novum Organum, the four idols of the mind, Baconian induction, and the birth of the modern empirical method. Maréchal and the Starting Point of Metaphysics — Book II: Rationalism and Empiricism before Kant https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/marechal-starting-point-metaphysics-book-2/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:39:00 -0300 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/marechal-starting-point-metaphysics-book-2/ An examination of Cahier II of Joseph Maréchal's Le point de départ de la métaphysique, analyzing the conflict between rationalism and empiricism — Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume — as the prelude to the Kantian crisis. David Hume https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/hume/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/hume/ A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was born in Edinburgh in 1711. While still very young he published his Treatise of Human Nature… Francis Bacon https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/francis-bacon/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/francis-bacon/ "Father of Empiricism" and of modern experimental science. Lord Chancellor of England; fell into disgrace due to corruption. His project was to renew… George Berkeley https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/berkeley/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/berkeley/ An Irish philosopher born in 1685 and later the Anglican Bishop of Cloyne, George Berkeley produced his most important philosophical works while still… John Locke https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/locke/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/locke/ John Locke was born in Wrington, England, in 1632, was educated at Oxford, and practiced medicine before becoming secretary and physician to the Earl of…