The empiricist tradition misses this central issue, thus is deeply inadequate. In summary of this first point: Without being and agency, knowing is both pointless and would not arise in evolution.

News and Commentary Published: 15 March 2017 Is homoploid hybrid speciation that rare? An empiricist’s view G Nieto Feliner, I Álvarez, J Fuertes-Aguilar, M Heuertz, I Marques, F Moharrek, R ...

John Locke (1632–1704) concerned himself primarily with society, where his views are often contrasted with those of Thomas Hobbes, and with epistemology, where he is usually placed alongside ...

I've been reading George Novack’s Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View (1968). It's a flawed book, but it does contain a lot of useful material. Starts out by noting that “empiricism” has a ...

The gods must have smiled ruefully when they took James Q. Wilson only one day after Andrew Breitbart. Here were two men who personified some of the tensions of contemporary conservatism. Breitbart ...

Mrs Thatcher was an empiricist (trained as she was as a chemist), proceeding inductively, one step at a time, but also a Burkean, who believed institutions evolved gradually of their own accord ...