Ayer, Anscombe and Empiricism
Alasdair MacIntyre, 17 April 1980
Perception and Identity: Essays presented to A.J. Ayer with his replies to them
edited by G.E. MacDonald.
Macmillan, 358 pp., £15, December 1979,0 333 27182 3 Show More
edited by G.E. MacDonald.
Macmillan, 358 pp., £15, December 1979,
Intention and Intentionality: Essays in Honour of G.E.M. Anscombe
edited by Cora Diamond and Jenny Teichmann.
Harvester, 205 pp., £16.95, December 1979,0 85527 985 0 Show More
edited by Cora Diamond and Jenny Teichmann.
Harvester, 205 pp., £16.95, December 1979,
“... Locke, Berkeley and Hume were three very different philosophers with very different preoccupations, modes of argument and attitudes towards the world. But by the middle of the 19th century it had become the custom to view them as the successive representatives of a single empiricist tradition. It is the English rather than the British who excel in the invention of traditions ... ”
