Essays on Empiricism

Buddhist Ecology in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema The Subversion of Modernity In the 17th Century, English philosopher Francis Bacon advanced the theory of empiricism in which scientific investigation – with a skepticism that negates all prior traditional forms of knowledge – was presented as the only…

Empiricism is a theory that links source of knowledge to sensory experience. The theory emphasizes the great role played by experience and evidence, mainly from sensory experience, in the formation of ideas as opposed to the idea that knowledge mainly comes from innate ideas or…

Philosophy is founded on the principles of human reason and dependent on the fact that humans are able to rationalize and seek out the solution to a problem or else knowledge in the face of something unknown. From Socrates onward, philosophy based this reasoning on…

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” ~ Rene Descartes h2>Cartesian Rationalism & the Mind/Body Problem Philosophy is founded on the principles of human reason…

The inauguration of the nature vs nurture debate is most likely to have started with Sir Francis Galton in 1869, however it is unknown how long the debate has being going on for. Sir Francis Galton theory’s on nature vs nurture is titled “Hereditary Genius”…

Idealism and empiricism, two basic epistemologies are complex concepts in physiology and are very distinct from each other, I will be pointing out the difference between the both. Idealist conclude that the way humans perceive the world is the way it truly is. The significant…