School #25

Empiricism

Locke, Hume, Bacon

Empiricism holds that all substantive knowledge originates in sensory experience — the mind at birth is a blank slate (tabula rasa) that receives its content from the world through perception. Francis Bacon's 'Novum Organum' (1620) laid the methodological foundation, urging the systematic collection and analysis of observations in place of scholastic deduction from first principles. John Locke's 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding' (1689) argued that there are no innate ideas: all concepts, even the most abstract, derive ultimately from simple impressions of sensation and reflection. David Hume's 'A Treatise of Human Nature' (1739-40) radicalized empiricism by showing that even our most confident beliefs — in causation, in the external world, in the self — cannot be grounded in experience alone, since experience gives us only constant conjunction, never necessary connection. Hume's skeptical conclusions set the agenda for Kant and much of modern epistemology.

Worldview

The empiricist experiences reality as a vast, open field of observable phenomena waiting to be catalogued, compared, and organized through careful attention to what the senses actually deliver. The world feels solid and tractable but never fully revealed: each observation opens the door to further observations, and every generalization is provisional, subject to revision by the next experiment. The fundamental orientation is one of disciplined receptivity — a willingness to let the world speak on its own terms rather than imposing preconceived categories upon it. Living inside this ontology means treating every claim as an empirical hypothesis, every belief as answerable to evidence, and every authority as subordinate to what can be observed and tested. There is a democratic temperament in this position: no one's armchair intuitions outweigh another person's carefully gathered data. The framework classifies this as None: empiricism restricts knowledge to what can be observed; no personal deity, cosmic ordering principle, or operative spirits are invoked beyond what the senses deliver. The framework reads this as None for moral authority: empiricism restricts knowledge to what observation can deliver, but observation alone yields no normatively binding ought — neither Scripture, Tradition, Reason, nor Experience is enthroned as ultimate over conduct.

Moral Implications

Empiricist ethics tends toward consequentialism, since moral judgments must ultimately rest on observable outcomes — the experienced pleasures and pains, benefits and harms, that actions produce. Abstract moral principles are accepted only insofar as they reliably predict the experiential consequences of conduct. Hume's insight that one cannot derive an "ought" from an "is" introduces a permanent humility into moral reasoning: the empiricist recognizes that values are not simply read off the facts but require an additional commitment that observation alone cannot supply. Moral progress is understood as the gradual accumulation of evidence about what actually promotes human flourishing and what causes suffering. Ethical disagreement is treated as resolvable, in principle, through better observation and more honest accounting of consequences.

Practical Implications

Empiricism is the philosophical engine of modern science, experimental medicine, and evidence-based policy, insisting that all claims be tested against observation before being accepted. Technology is welcomed insofar as it extends the range and precision of human observation — microscopes, telescopes, sensors, and statistical tools all embody the empiricist commitment to letting the world speak. Environmental policy is grounded in measurable data: species counts, temperature records, pollution levels, and ecological indicators rather than abstract appeals to nature's intrinsic worth. In education, the empiricist prioritizes observation, experimentation, and critical thinking over rote memorization or argument from authority. Daily life is shaped by a habitual skepticism toward unverified claims and a preference for the testimony of direct experience.

I. Time

Time is emergent — it is known only through the succession of sensory impressions. Hume denied that we can observe the "flow" of time itself; we observe only the sequence of events. Time is continuous, linear, uni-directional, and finite insofar as temporal knowledge is bounded by what has been or can be observed.

Attributes
Extent: Infinite Ontological Status: Substantival Grain: Continuous Freedom: Non-Deterministic Traversability: Linear Dimensionality: One Direction: Uni-directional

II. Space

Space is emergent — it is known only through sensory experience of spatial relations among observed objects. The empiricist does not speculate about the ultimate nature of space beyond what observation reveals. It is flat, finite, local, and three-dimensional as far as ordinary experience discloses.

Attributes
Extent: Infinite Ontological Status: Substantival Curvature: Flat Dimensionality: Three Locality: Local

III. Matter

Matter is emergent — it is known through sense experience as that which resists and presents itself to observation. The empiricist avoids metaphysical claims about matter's ultimate nature, treating it as whatever is encountered through the senses. Matter is conserved and local within the bounds of observational evidence.

Attributes
Extent: Finite Ontological Status: Substantival Conservation: Conserved Dimensionality: Three Locality: Local

IV. Observer

The observer is a sensory creature — embodied, situated in one place at one time, and dependent on experience as the sole source of knowledge. Nothing is known prior to perception; the mind begins as a blank slate written upon by the senses. Direct observation is the starting point and the final court of appeal. Over time, sense impressions accumulate into a growing body of empirical knowledge that can be organized and transmitted. The observer is passive in the sense that it receives rather than constitutes reality — the world impresses itself upon the mind. Multiple observers can compare their impressions and build a shared, empirically grounded understanding.

Attributes
Time Instance: Single Space Instance: Single Extent of Knowledge: Mediated Retainment of Knowledge: Partial Physicality: Embodied Agency: Active Number: Plural Metaphysical Agency: None Moral Authority: Reason Theological Method: N/A

V. Energy

Energy is emergent — it is a concept derived from and justified by observational evidence. Conservation holds as an empirical generalization confirmed by extensive experimental evidence. Dispersibility is irreversible as observed in thermodynamic processes.

Attributes
Extent: Finite Ontological Status: Substantival Conservation: Conserved Dispersibility: Irreversible

VI. Information

Information is derived from sensory experience and accumulated through observation. Each observation adds to the accumulated store of empirical knowledge. The framework distinguishes scales: information is conserved at the cosmic scale because the accumulated empirical record builds across observers and generations, but non-conserved at the personal-identity scale — the individual bundle of sensations and memories does not survive the death of the body.

Attributes
Ontological Status: Substantival Cosmic Conservation: Conserved Personal Conservation: Non-conserved Granularity: Continuous

Experiments This School Responds To (23)

Galileo's Falling Bodies
1638 · Reframes the question
Granting the elegance, empiricists insist the conclusion still required the inclined-plane experiments to be confirmed. The thought experiment narrows the space of possible laws; observation …
The Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment
1909 · Affirms / takes the bait
The decision between continuum and atomistic electrodynamics is settled by direct observation, not by theoretical preference. A model case for how physics should be done.
Descartes' Evil Demon
1641 · Denies / rejects the premise
The hyperbolic doubt is incoherent: any standard for genuine doubt presupposes some background of fixed belief. Hume, Reid, and the British empiricists treat the demon …
Newton's Prism Experiment
1672 · Affirms / takes the bait
A canonical demonstration of empirical method: observation, controlled variation, decisive test. British empiricism took Newton as exemplar.
Galileo's Inclined Plane
1604–1638 · Affirms / takes the bait
A canonical empirical foundation for mechanics: laws of motion derived from carefully designed observation, not from Aristotelian categories.
Eratosthenes' Measurement of Earth
c. 240 BC · Affirms / takes the bait
Foundational empirical measurement: angular observation, distance estimate, mathematical synthesis. The method generalises throughout subsequent observational astronomy.
Galileo's Moons of Jupiter
1610 · Affirms / takes the bait
A model demonstration that careful observation can overturn entrenched theoretical commitments; British empiricism took Galileo as exemplary.
Tycho's Supernova
1572 · Affirms / takes the bait
A model demonstration of how observational precision can overturn cosmological dogma. The methodological lesson is as important as the substantive one.
The Cogito
1637 / 1641 · Reframes the question
Even granting the Cogito, the bridge to substantive knowledge of the external world fails; Hume's skepticism dismantles the reconstructive project the Cogito anchors.
Rømer's Measurement of the Speed of Light
1676 · Affirms / takes the bait
A canonical example of how careful observation overturns received theoretical doctrine (Cartesian instantaneity).
Torricelli's Barometer
1644 · Affirms / takes the bait
A canonical empirical refutation: Aristotelian doctrine cannot survive direct observation. Methodological model.
Boyle's J-Tube
1662 · Affirms / takes the bait
A model of empirical quantitative inquiry: tabulated measurements yield a clean mathematical law.
Meno's Slave Boy
c. 380 BC · Denies / rejects the premise
The boy is being led by leading questions; the "recollection" is just guided learning. Locke and Hume reject innate-knowledge interpretations.
Galvani's Twitching Frogs
1780–1791 · Affirms / takes the bait
A canonical case of experimental investigation correcting an initial theoretical interpretation; methodological model for electrophysiology.
Archimedes' Eureka — The Displacement Principle
c. 250 BC · Affirms / takes the bait
A paradigmatic empirical discovery: a sensory observation (water rising) yields a quantitative law. The method generalises immediately to all density measurements.
Archimedes' Lever Demonstrations
c. 250 BC · Affirms / takes the bait
The ship-hauling demonstration is the empirical confirmation: the mathematical law predicts an observable outcome, and the prediction succeeds publicly and dramatically.
Hipparchus' Star Catalogue
c. 129 BC · Affirms / takes the bait
A canonical example of systematic observation: cataloguing positions star by star, then comparing across centuries. The discovery of precession is purely empirical — it emerges …
Ptolemy's Almagest Observations
c. 150 AD · Affirms / takes the bait
The system is grounded in decades of careful observation. Without the empirical base — Babylonian records, Hipparchus, Ptolemy's own — the model could not be …
Galen's Nerve Experiments
c. 160 AD · Affirms / takes the bait
Galen's method — systematic dissection, controlled intervention, direct observation — is empirical science in its most demanding form. The recurrent laryngeal experiment is a controlled …
Zhang Heng's Seismoscope
132 AD · Affirms / takes the bait
A purpose-built instrument extending human perception: detecting events too faint and too distant for direct sensation. Instrumental empiricism at an early date.
Ibn al-Haytham's Camera Obscura
c. 1020 AD · Affirms / takes the bait
Ibn al-Haytham's method is explicitly experimental: he designs controlled setups, varies parameters, and draws conclusions from observations. He is often called the first true experimental …
Roger Bacon's Optics
c. 1260 · Affirms / takes the bait
Bacon is a proto-empiricist: he explicitly argues that experiment is a source of knowledge irreducible to deduction or authority. His optical work exemplifies the claim.
Shen Kuo's Compass Declination
1088 · Affirms / takes the bait
A precise empirical observation — the needle's slight deviation from true north — that reveals a physical fact invisible to casual inspection. Careful measurement as …

Films Reading Through This School (3)

Debates Where This School Is Allied (14)

The Newton–Hooke Disputes
1675–1686 · allied with Robert Hooke
Experimental philosopher; Royal Society curator
Galileo and the Inquisition
1616 (admonition); 1633 (trial) · allied with Galileo Galilei
Mathematical natural philosopher
Voltaire–Leibniz on Theodicy
1710 / 1755–1759 · allied with Voltaire
Empirical sceptic; anti-theodicist
Berkeley vs Locke on Material Substance
1690 / 1710–1713 · allied with John Locke
Representational realist
Berkeley vs Locke on Material Substance
1690 / 1710–1713 · allied with George Berkeley
Idealist; immaterialist
Anselm and Gaunilo on the Ontological Argument
1078 · allied with Gaunilo of Marmoutiers
Critical monk; defender of "the fool"
Kant and Hume
1739 / 1781 · allied with David Hume
Skeptical empiricist
Wittgenstein vs Russell
1911 (first meeting); 1929 onward (sustained break) · allied with Bertrand Russell
Logical analyst; defender of foundational philosophy
Mill vs Whewell on Induction
1837–1872 · allied with John Stuart Mill
Empiricist philosopher of science
Locke vs Stillingfleet
1696–1699 · allied with John Locke
Philosopher of empirical knowledge
The Hume–Rousseau Affair
1766–1767 · allied with David Hume
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and historian
James vs Russell on Pragmatism
1907–1910 · allied with William James
Founder of American pragmatism
James vs Russell on Pragmatism
1907–1910 · allied with Bertrand Russell
Analytic realist
Hobbes vs Descartes
1641 · allied with Thomas Hobbes
Materialist empiricist
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Works that name Empiricism in their embodiments

Foundational texts that draw on this school, with each work's declared weight.

55%
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke · 1689 (first ed.); fourth ed. with significant revisions 1700
50%
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Late)
David Hume · 1748 (first published as Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding)
40%
A Treatise of Human Nature (Early)
David Hume · Books I & II 1739; Book III 1740 (anonymously; Hume aged 28)
40%
Novum Organum
Francis Bacon · 1620 (London; intended as Part II of the never-completed Instauratio Magna)
40%
Indica
Al-Biruni · c. 1030 CE
40%
Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions
Al-Muqaddasi · c. 985 CE
35%
Notebooks (Codex Atlanticus and others) (Lifelong (the notebooks span Leonardo's entire adult career))
Leonardo da Vinci · c. 1478–1519 (across Leonardo's entire career, from Florence through Milan, Rome, and Amboise)
35%
Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems
Al-Masudi · c. 947 CE
30%
A System of Logic (Early (Mill's first major book, the foundation of his philosophical reputation))
John Stuart Mill · 1843 (Mill's first major book); revised through 1872 (8th edition)
30%
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Mid-late)
David Hume · 1751
30%
Historia Animalium (Mature)
Aristotle · c. 343-340 BC (composed during Aristotle's Lesbos period and continued at the Lyceum)
30%
Quodlibetal Questions (Mature)
William of Ockham · c. 1322-1325
30%
Opus Majus
Roger Bacon · c. 1267
30%
The Spiritual Medicine
Al-Razi (Rhazes) · c. 900–925 CE
30%
De Animalibus
Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus) · c. 1258–1262
30%
On the Measurement of the Earth (reconstructed)
Eratosthenes of Cyrene · c. 240 BCE
30%
On Nature (fragments)
Alcmaeon of Croton · c. 5th century BCE
30%
Geography
Strabo · c. 7 BCE – 24 CE
28%
Novum Organon Renovatum (Late)
William Whewell · 1858
25%
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Late)
David Hume · Drafted 1751–61; revised continuously; published posthumously 1779
25%
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (Late)
John Locke · 1693
25%
The Sceptical Chymist (Mid)
Robert Boyle · 1661
25%
The Science of Mechanics (Die Mechanik in ihrer Entwicklung) (Mid)
Ernst Mach · 1883
25%
Experiments on Plant Hybridization (Late)
Gregor Mendel · 1866 (published in proceedings of Brünn Natural History Society)
25%
Traité élémentaire de chimie (Late)
Antoine Lavoisier · 1789
25%
The Analysis of Sensations (Mid)
Ernst Mach · 1886 (1st ed.); 1903 (rev. 5th ed.)
25%
Éléments de la philosophie de Newton (Mid (the work that established Voltaire as a public intellectual of European reach))
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) · 1738 (Éléments de la philosophie de Newton, Amsterdam; revised 1741)
25%
Journal of Researches (Early)
Charles Darwin · 1839 (first edition); 1845 (substantially revised second edition)
25%
The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (Last)
Charles Darwin · 1881 (John Murray, London) — Darwin's last book, published months before his April 1882 death
25%
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (Mature)
Charles Darwin · 1868 (John Murray, London); revised 1875
25%
Commentary on the Sentences (Early)
William of Ockham · c. 1317-1319 (Oxford lectures)
25%
An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (Early)
George Berkeley · 1709
25%
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (Mid-career (companion to the History))
William Whewell · 1840 (revised 1847, 1858–60)
25%
Of Induction (Mid-career polemic)
William Whewell · 1849
25%
Lectures on Jurisprudence (Middle)
Adam Smith · 1762-1764 (student-note reconstructions)
25%
Essays, Moral and Political (Middle)
David Hume · 1741-1742 (revised and expanded through 1777)
25%
On the Sacred Disease
Hippocrates (or a Hippocratic author) · c. 410–390 BCE
25%
On the Natural Faculties
Galen · c. 175 CE
25%
Rihla (The Travels)
Ibn Battuta (dictated to Ibn Juzayy) · 1355 (dictated at the court of Abu Inan, the Marinid sultan of Fez)
25%
Natural History
Pliny the Elder · 77 CE
25%
On Pneumatics
Ctesibius of Alexandria · c. 270 BCE
25%
Attributed Sayings and Wisdom Traditions
Imhotep · c. 2650–2600 BCE (original period; surviving references from later periods)
22%
History of the Inductive Sciences (Mid-career)
William Whewell · 1837 (3 vols)
22%
On the Philosophy of Discovery (Late-career capstone)
William Whewell · 1860
22%
Essays on Philosophical Subjects (Posthumous)
Adam Smith · c. 1750s-1770s composition; 1795 posthumous publication
22%
The History of England (Late)
David Hume · 1754-1761 (6 volumes, composed reverse-chronologically)
22%
Popular Scientific Lectures (Middle)
Ernst Mach · 1895
20%
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill · 1859
20%
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill · 1861 (Fraser's Magazine); 1863 (book form)
20%
The Problems of Philosophy (Early)
Bertrand Russell · 1912
20%
A History of Western Philosophy (Late)
Bertrand Russell · 1945
20%
Opticks (Late)
Isaac Newton · 1704 (English first edition); 1706 (Latin)
20%
The Natural History of Religion (Late)
David Hume · 1757 (Four Dissertations)
20%
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Early-to-late (he revised it throughout his life))
Adam Smith · 1759 (1st edition); 1790 (6th and definitive edition with substantial additions)
20%
Why I Am Not a Christian (Mid-late)
Bertrand Russell · 1927 (lecture); 1957 (collected essays as a book)
20%
The Principles of Psychology (Mid (the major early work; foundational for both psychology and pragmatist philosophy))
William James · 1890 (after twelve years of writing; James later said he should not have spent so much time on it)
20%
The Logical Structure of the World (Early (Carnap's breakthrough work))
Rudolf Carnap · 1928 (Carnap's habilitation; the founding text of the Vienna Circle's constructive-philosophical programme)
20%
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Le Capital au XXIe siècle) (Late)
Thomas Piketty · 2013 (French); 2014 (English)
20%
An Essay on the Principle of Population (Late)
Thomas Robert Malthus · 1798 (1st edn); 1803 (rev. 2nd edn)
20%
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (Late)
David Ricardo · 1817
20%
Language, Truth, and Logic (Early)
A.J. Ayer · 1936
20%
Astronomia Nova (Mid)
Johannes Kepler · 1609
20%
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (Late)
James Clerk Maxwell · 1873 (2 vols.; 2nd ed. 1881; 3rd ed. 1891)
20%
The Double Helix (Mid)
James D. Watson · 1968
20%
The Character of Physical Law (Mid)
Richard Feynman · 1964 (lectures); 1965 (book)
20%
Descartes' Error (Late)
António Damásio · 1994
20%
The Mind of Primitive Man (Late)
Franz Boas · 1911 (1st ed.); 1938 (rev. 2nd ed.)
20%
Essays in Radical Empiricism (Late posthumous)
William James · 1904-08 essays; collected posthumously 1912
20%
The Descent of Man (Mature)
Charles Darwin · 1871 (John Murray, London); revised 1874
20%
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Late)
Charles Darwin · 1872 (John Murray, London)
20%
Constructing the World (Mid)
David J. Chalmers · 2012 (2010 Locke Lectures, Oxford)
20%
Knowledge and Error (Late)
Ernst Mach · 1905
20%
Arguments Against the Stoics (Reconstructed from Cicero)
Carneades (reconstructed from Cicero) · c. mid-2nd century BCE (delivered); reconstructed from Cicero, 1st century BCE
20%
On Behalf of the Fool
Gaunilo of Marmoutiers · c. 1078
18%
Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology (Late)
David Lewis · 1999
15%
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Late)
Adam Smith · 1776 (first ed.); five revised editions in Smith's lifetime
15%
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James · 1901–02 (Gifford Lectures, Edinburgh); 1902 (book form)
15%
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Early)
George Berkeley · 1710 (Dublin, age 25)
15%
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Galileo Galilei · 1632 (Florence; placed on the Index of Prohibited Books later that year)
15%
Pragmatism (Late)
William James · 1907 (from 1906 Lowell Lectures, Boston)
15%
The Will to Believe (Mid (between Principles of Psychology and Varieties of Religious Experience))
William James · 1897 (title essay, addressed to the Philosophical Clubs of Yale and Brown, 1896)
15%
Principles of Political Economy (Mid (Mill's major economic work))
John Stuart Mill · 1848 (1st edition); revised through 1871 (7th edition)
15%
New Essays on Human Understanding (Late)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1704 (completed; Leibniz suppressed publication after Locke's 1704 death); 1765 (posthumous publication)
15%
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (Early)
George Berkeley · 1713
15%
The Reasonableness of Christianity (Late)
John Locke · 1695
15%
The Logical Syntax of Language (Mid)
Rudolf Carnap · 1934 (German; English 1937)
15%
Aspects of Scientific Explanation (Mid)
Carl G. Hempel · 1965
15%
Reflections on the Revolution in France (Late)
Edmund Burke · 1790
15%
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (Late)
Thomas Reid · 1785
15%
Two New Sciences (Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno à Due Nuove Scienze) (Late)
Galileo Galilei · 1638
15%
Philosophical Letters (Lettres Philosophiques / Lettres Anglaises) (Mid)
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) · 1734
15%
Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt) (Early)
Franz Brentano · 1874
15%
Notes on the State of Virginia (Mid)
Thomas Jefferson · 1781-82 (composed); 1785 (Paris edn); 1787 (London edn)
15%
The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory (La Théorie physique: son objet, sa structure) (Late)
Pierre Duhem · 1906
15%
The Philosophy of Space and Time (Philosophie der Raum-Zeit-Lehre) (Mid)
Hans Reichenbach · 1928
15%
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Late)
Robert D. Putnam · 2000
15%
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Late)
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
15%
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Late)
Jonathan Haidt · 2012
15%
The Black Swan (Late)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2007
15%
Second Treatise of Government (Late)
John Locke · 1689
15%
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Late)
Jeremy Bentham · 1780 (privately printed); 1789 (published)
15%
Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (Late)
J. L. Mackie · 1977
15%
The Growth of Biological Thought (Late)
Ernst Mayr · 1982
15%
Wonderful Life (Late)
Stephen Jay Gould · 1989
15%
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Late)
Edward O. Wilson · 1975
15%
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Late)
John Maynard Keynes · 1936
15%
Attachment and Loss (Late)
John Bowlby · 1969 (vol. I); 1973 (vol. II); 1980 (vol. III)
15%
Proof of an External World (Late)
G. E. Moore · 1939 (British Academy lecture)
15%
The Analysis of Mind (Mid)
Bertrand Russell · 1921
15%
Scientific Thought (Mid)
C. D. Broad · 1923
15%
A New Kind of Science (Mid)
Stephen Wolfram · 1991-2002 (composed over 11 years); 2002 (published)
15%
The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language (Early-to-middle (Carnap's most polemical statement of the verificationist programme))
Rudolf Carnap · 1932 (Erkenntnis 2; English trans. Arthur Pap, 1959)
15%
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (Early (Wollstonecraft's first published book, written from her experience as a governess and a school proprietress))
Mary Wollstonecraft · 1787 (J. Johnson, London)
15%
Sidereus Nuncius (Early-mid (the breakthrough that established Galileo's international reputation))
Galileo Galilei · March 1610 (Venice: Tommaso Baglioni)
15%
Dictionnaire philosophique (Late (composed during the Ferney years))
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) · 1764 (Dictionnaire philosophique portatif, Geneva; greatly expanded through 1769)
15%
Theory of Colors (Mature)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1810 (J.G. Cotta, Tübingen)
15%
Treatise on Predestination, Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents (Mature)
William of Ockham · c. 1321-24
15%
De Motu (Mid)
George Berkeley · 1721
15%
Our Knowledge of the External World (Mid)
Bertrand Russell · 1914
15%
Nyaya Mukura (Mid)
Raghavendra Swami · c. 1620-1671
15%
Théorie analytique des probabilités (Late)
Pierre-Simon Laplace · 1812 (revised 1814, 1820)
15%
Fragments (Reconstructed)
Posidonius (reconstructed) · c. 1st century BCE (original works); testimonia from 1st c. BCE–2nd c. CE
15%
Characters
Theophrastus · c. 319 BCE
15%
Hayy ibn Yaqzan
Ibn Tufayl · c. 1160–1170 CE
12%
Context (Late)
Robert Stalnaker · 2014
12%
The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms (Final)
Charles Darwin · 1881
12%
Letter to Pythocles (Mature)
Epicurus · c. 306-270 BC
12%
Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology (Late)
Rudolf Carnap · 1950
12%
The Philosophical Foundations of Physics (Late)
Rudolf Carnap · 1966 (lectures earlier)
10%
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Sextus Empiricus · c. 160–210 AD
10%
Two Treatises of Government (Late)
John Locke · Written c. 1679–82; published anonymously 1689
10%
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792 (London, six weeks)
10%
Experience and Nature (Late)
John Dewey · 1925 (Carus Lectures, Chicago; revised 1929)
10%
How to Make Our Ideas Clear
Charles Sanders Peirce · 1878 (Popular Science Monthly, January)
10%
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl R. Popper · Composed 1938–1943 in New Zealand exile; published 1945 (2 vols)
10%
A Letter Concerning Toleration (Late)
John Locke · Written in Latin 1685 in Holland; published anonymously 1689 (Latin and English)
10%
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Willard Van Orman Quine · 1951 (Philosophical Review)
10%
The Subjection of Women (Late)
John Stuart Mill · Written 1860–61 with Harriet Taylor Mill's collaboration; published 1869
10%
Deliverance from Error (Late)
Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī · c. 1108 (late in al-Ghazali's life, after returning to teaching)
10%
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (Mid (Northampton pastorate; the major work of evangelical reflection))
Jonathan Edwards · 1746
10%
Émile (Late)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762 (published the same year as the Social Contract; both condemned and burned by authorities)
10%
The Interpretation of Dreams (Early (the founding work of psychoanalysis))
Sigmund Freud · 1899 (dated 1900); revised through 1929 (8th edition)
10%
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Early-mid (after the Interpretation of Dreams))
Sigmund Freud · 1905; revised through 1924
10%
A Vindication of the Rights of Men (Early (preceding the more famous 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Woman))
Mary Wollstonecraft · 1790 (the first major published response to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France)
10%
Word and Object (Mid)
W.V.O. Quine · 1960
10%
Democracy and Education (Mid)
John Dewey · 1916
10%
Art as Experience (Late)
John Dewey · 1934 (William James Lectures at Harvard, 1931)
10%
The Quest for Certainty (Late)
John Dewey · 1929 (Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh, 1928-29)
10%
The Federalist Papers (Mid)
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay · 1787-88 (Independent Journal, New York Packet, Daily Advertiser)
10%
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Mid)
Robert Nozick · 1974
10%
Two Concepts of Liberty (Mid)
Isaiah Berlin · 1958 (Inaugural Lecture as Chichele Professor at Oxford)
10%
The Hedgehog and the Fox (Mid)
Isaiah Berlin · 1953
10%
Muqaddimah (Late)
Ibn Khaldūn (ʿAbd al-Raḥmān) · 1377
10%
Summa Logicae (Late)
William of Ockham · c. 1323
10%
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Late)
Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792
10%
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) (Mid)
Titus Lucretius Carus · c. 55 BCE
10%
Adversus Mathematicos (Against the Mathematicians / Professors) (Late)
Sextus Empiricus · c. 180-200 CE
10%
The Prince (Il Principe) (Late)
Niccolò Machiavelli · 1513 (first printed 1532)
10%
Historical and Critical Dictionary (Dictionnaire Historique et Critique) (Late)
Pierre Bayle · 1697 (2nd expanded edn 1702)
10%
The Spirit of the Laws (De l'esprit des lois) (Late)
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu · 1748
10%
Candide (Candide, ou l'Optimisme) (Late)
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) · 1759
10%
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (Early)
William Wordsworth · 1800 (1st version); 1802 (expanded)
10%
Silent Spring (Late)
Rachel Carson · 1962
10%
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Late)
James Lovelock · 1979
10%
Freedom of the Will (Late)
Jonathan Edwards · 1754
10%
Common Sense (Mid)
Thomas Paine · 1776 (January)
10%
The Age of Reason (Late)
Thomas Paine · 1794 (Part I); 1795 (Part II); 1807 (Part III)
10%
Gulliver's Travels (Late)
Jonathan Swift · 1726
10%
An Essay on Man (Late)
Alexander Pope · 1733-34
10%
Science and Hypothesis (La Science et l'hypothèse) (Late)
Henri Poincaré · 1902
10%
The Language Instinct (Late)
Steven Pinker · 1994
10%
A Brief History of Time (Late)
Stephen Hawking · 1988
10%
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Late)
Naomi Klein · 2007
10%
The Methods of Ethics (Late)
Henry Sidgwick · 1874 (1st edn); 1907 (7th, definitive)
10%
The Concept of Mind (Mid)
Gilbert Ryle · 1949
10%
How to Do Things with Words (Late)
J.L. Austin · 1955 (William James Lectures at Harvard); 1962 (book, posthumous)
10%
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Late)
Nicolaus Copernicus · 1543 (published; composed 1510-30s)
10%
What Is Life? (Late)
Erwin Schrödinger · 1943 (lectures); 1944 (book)
10%
A Mathematical Theory of Communication (Mid)
Claude Shannon · 1948 (Bell System Technical Journal)
10%
The Order of Time (Late)
Carlo Rovelli · 2017 (Italian); 2018 (English)
10%
The Road to Serfdom (Mid)
Friedrich Hayek · 1944
10%
The Construction of Reality in the Child (Mid)
Jean Piaget · 1937 (French); 1954 (English)
10%
Motivation and Personality (Mid)
Abraham Maslow · 1954 (1st ed.); 1970 (rev. 2nd ed.)
10%
Sense and Sensibilia (Late)
J. L. Austin · 1947-58 (lectures); 1962 (posthumous, reconstructed by G. J. Warnock)
10%
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (Late)
Pierre-Simon Laplace · 1814 (Essai philosophique sur les probabilités)
10%
Realms of the Human Unconscious (Mid)
Stanislav Grof · 1975
10%
The Assayer (Mature (composed during the brief honeymoon between Galileo and the new Pope Urban VIII))
Galileo Galilei · 1623 (Rome: Accademia dei Lincei)
10%
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (Mature (composed at the height of the developing controversy with Rome))
Galileo Galilei · 1615 (composed; circulated in manuscript; first published 1636 in Strasbourg)
10%
Traité sur la tolérance (Late (the campaign-treatise of the Ferney period))
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) · 1763 (Traité sur la tolérance à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas)
10%
Political Treatise (Late (Spinoza's last work, left incomplete at his death))
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza · 1675-77 (unfinished at Spinoza's 1677 death; published posthumously as part of the Opera Posthuma)
10%
Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect (Early (Spinoza's first major philosophical project, left incomplete as the Ethics took shape))
Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza · c. 1661-62 (unfinished; published posthumously in the Opera Posthuma 1677)
10%
Rhetoric (Mature)
Aristotle · c. 350-330 BC (composed during Aristotle's mature Lyceum period)
10%
Poetics (Mature)
Aristotle · c. 335 BC (composed during Aristotle's Lyceum period; only the book on tragedy and epic survives; the book on comedy is lost)
10%
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Mid-mature)
Albert Einstein · 1916 (Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie); English translation 1920
10%
Letter to Herodotus (Mature)
Epicurus · c. 300 BC
10%
Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher (Mid)
George Berkeley · 1732
10%
Spirit in the World (Early)
Karl Rahner · 1939 (Geist in Welt)
10%
The Search After Truth (Early-to-mid)
Nicolas Malebranche · 1674-75 (expanded through 1712)
10%
The Histories
Polybius · c. 150s–130s BCE
10%
Mathematical Commentary on Diophantus
Hypatia of Alexandria · c. 400 CE
10%
Xunzi
Xunzi (Xun Kuang) · c. 3rd century BCE
10%
Kitab al-Hayawan (Book of Animals) (Early)
Al-Jahiz (Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr) · c. 860
10%
Pramanavarttika (Commentary on Valid Cognition) (Early)
Dharmakirti · c. 7th century
8%
Micrographia (Early-career (career-defining))
Robert Hooke · 1665
8%
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Sextus Empiricus · c. 200 CE
5%
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant · 1781 (A edition); 1787 (B edition, substantially revised)
5%
A Theory of Justice
John Rawls · 1971; revised edition 1999
5%
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville · Volume I 1835; Volume II 1840 (based on Tocqueville's 1831–32 American journey)
5%
Theological-Political Treatise (Early)
Baruch Spinoza · 1670 (anonymously, with false imprint)
5%
Theaetetus (Late)
Plato · c. 369 BC (late dialogue)
5%
Discourse on the Method (Mid (1637, in mature middle age; preceding the Meditations of 1641))
René Descartes · 1637 (published anonymously as the preface to three scientific essays — Optics, Meteorology, Geometry)
5%
A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (Late)
John Wesley · 1766 (with revisions through 1777; published as a unified text in 1777)
5%
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Early)
Arthur Schopenhauer · 1813 (doctoral dissertation); 1847 (revised 2nd edition)
5%
Representation and Reality (Mid)
Hilary Putnam · 1988
5%
The Fixation of Belief (Early)
Charles Sanders Peirce · 1877 (Popular Science Monthly, November)
5%
The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Early)
Karl Popper · 1934 (Logik der Forschung); 1959 English
5%
Conjectures and Refutations (Mid)
Karl Popper · 1963
5%
The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes (Late)
Imre Lakatos · 1978 (posthumous; key essays from 1968-71)
5%
The Uses of Argument (Early)
Stephen Toulmin · 1958
5%
Patterns of Discovery (Early)
Norwood Russell Hanson · 1958
5%
Essays on Actions and Events (Mid)
Donald Davidson · 1980 (essays 1963-78)
5%
Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (Mid)
Donald Davidson · 1984 (essays 1965-83)
5%
Naming and Necessity (Mid)
Saul Kripke · 1972 (Princeton lectures); 1980 (book)
5%
Counterfactuals (Early)
David Lewis · 1973
5%
Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics (Early)
P.F. Strawson · 1959
5%
The Feminine Mystique (Late)
Betty Friedan · 1963
5%
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (Late)
Diogenes Laertius · c. 3rd century CE
5%
Discourses on Livy (Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio) (Late)
Niccolò Machiavelli · 1517 (published 1531)
5%
Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence (Late)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke · 1715-16
5%
Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience) (Early)
Henri Bergson · 1889 (doctoral thesis)
5%
Matter and Memory (Matière et Mémoire) (Mid)
Henri Bergson · 1896
5%
Biographia Literaria (Mid)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817
5%
Consciousness Explained (Mid)
Daniel C. Dennett · 1991
5%
Speech Acts (Early)
John R. Searle · 1969
5%
Reasons and Persons (Mid)
Derek Parfit · 1984
5%
On Bullshit (Late)
Harry G. Frankfurt · 1986 (Raritan); 2005 (book)
5%
The Philosophy of Philosophy (Late)
Timothy Williamson · 2007
5%
Cultural Universals and Particulars: An African Perspective (Late)
Kwasi Wiredu · 1996
5%
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana) (Mid)
José Carlos Mariátegui · 1928
5%
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Mid)
Wilfrid Sellars · 1956
5%
Ways of Worldmaking (Late)
Nelson Goodman · 1978
5%
Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (Mid)
Mary Midgley · 1978
5%
Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics (Late)
John S. Bell · 1987 (papers 1964-86)
5%
The Social Construction of What? (Late)
Ian Hacking · 1999
5%
Mind, Self, and Society (Late)
George Herbert Mead · 1934 (posthumous; lectures 1928-30)
5%
Don Quixote (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha) (Late)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1605 (Part I); 1615 (Part II)
5%
Begriffsschrift (Early)
Gottlob Frege · 1879
5%
The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages (Mid)
Alfred Tarski · 1933 (Polish); 1935 (German); 1956 (English)
5%
Relativity: The Special and General Theory (Mid)
Albert Einstein · 1916 (German); 1920 (English)
5%
The Essential Tension (Late)
Thomas S. Kuhn · 1977
5%
Middlemarch (Late)
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) · 1871-72
5%
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (Late)
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) · 1949
5%
Syntactic Structures (Early)
Noam Chomsky · 1957
5%
Metaphors We Live By (Late)
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson · 1980
5%
Animal Liberation (Mid)
Peter Singer · 1975
5%
The Sociological Imagination (Mid)
C. Wright Mills · 1959
5%
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Mid)
Erving Goffman · 1959
5%
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (La Distinction) (Mid)
Pierre Bourdieu · 1979
5%
Full Catastrophe Living (Late)
Jon Kabat-Zinn · 1990 (revised 2013)
5%
Confessions (Late)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1769 (composed); 1782-89 (posthumous)
5%
Principia Ethica (Early)
G.E. Moore · 1903
5%
The Blue and Brown Books (Mid)
Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1933-35 (dictations); 1958 (published posthumously)
5%
On Sense and Reference (Mid)
Gottlob Frege · 1892
5%
The Language of Thought (Mid)
Jerry Fodor · 1975
5%
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Late)
Alan Turing · 1950 (Mind)
5%
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Late)
Norbert Wiener · 1948 (2nd ed. 1961)
5%
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Late)
Joseph Schumpeter · 1942
5%
Envy and Gratitude (Late)
Melanie Klein · 1957
5%
The Story of Art (Mid)
Ernst Gombrich · 1950 (1st ed.); 1995 (16th ed.)
5%
The Analysis of Matter (Mid)
Bertrand Russell · 1927
5%
Past, Present and Future (Late)
Arthur N. Prior · 1967
5%
A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God (Early)
Jonathan Edwards · 1737
5%
The Singularity Is Near (Late)
Ray Kurzweil · 2005
5%
Relative State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics (Early)
Hugh Everett III · 1957 (Reviews of Modern Physics)
5%
The Structure of the World (Late)
Steven French · 2014
5%
Dialogue on the Power of the Pope and the Emperor (Late)
William of Ockham · c. 1334-1346
5%
Objects of Thought (Late)
Arthur Norman Prior · 1970-71 (drafted), 1971 (posthumous publication)

Personas with Empiricism as a declared influence

50%  John Locke 50%  David Hume 40%  Al-Biruni 40%  Al-Muqaddasi 35%  Robert Hooke 35%  Roger Bacon 35%  Al-Razi (Rhazes) 35%  Leonardo da Vinci 35%  Al-Masudi 30%  Daniel Kahneman 30%  Hippocrates of Cos 30%  Alcmaeon of Croton 25%  Thomas Jefferson 25%  Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) 25%  Mary Wollstonecraft 25%  John Stuart Mill 25%  William of Ockham 25%  Carl Sagan 25%  Ernst Mach 25%  Rudolf Carnap 25%  Gaunilo of Marmoutiers 25%  Ibn Khaldun 25%  Robert Grosseteste 25%  Ibn Battuta 25%  Eratosthenes of Cyrene 25%  Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder) 25%  Strabo 25%  Ctesibius of Alexandria 20%  Benjamin Franklin 20%  Bertrand Russell 20%  Adam Smith 20%  George Berkeley 20%  Thucydides 20%  Galen 20%  Theophrastus 15%  Charles Darwin 15%  Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam 15%  Thomas Hobbes 15%  Herodotus 15%  Carneades 15%  Ibn Tufayl 15%  Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus) 15%  Imhotep 10%  Sigmund Freud 10%  William James 10%  Richard Dawkins 10%  Sextus Empiricus 10%  Polybius 10%  Posidonius 10%  Al-Jahiz 10%  Johannes Gutenberg (Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden) 5%  Titus Lucretius Carus 5%  Dharmakirti -15%  Nicolas Malebranche

How Empiricism resolves each dilemma

56 resolved positions across 4 dimensions · 1 unaligned.

Each dimension is sorted so minority positions come first. Mainstream positions are folded into an expandable list.

Time · 9 dilemmas, all mainstream
Matter · 7 dilemmas, all mainstream
Observer · 37 dilemmas, all mainstream
Could causation work backwards? Causation runs one way — the arrow of time is real and structural. 68% Is the asymmetry between memory and anticipation a real feature of time, or just of us? The asymmetry is real because time itself has a real direction. 68% Is the arrow of time a real feature of the cosmos, or only of how we describe it? The arrow is real and structural; the asymmetry isn't an artifact of description. 68% Is environmental damage ever truly permanent? Damage is real and permanent on the relevant timescales. There is no recovery; there is only limitation. 66% Can a civilization recover from collapse? Civilizational complexity is hard to build and easy to lose; recovery is at best partial. 66% Does the second law of thermodynamics mean something morally? Entropy is what time is. The moral weight, if any, is the weight of working against the current. 66% Is truth universal, tradition-bound, situated, or constructed? Truth is mind-independent, universal, accessible in principle to all. 66% When does a person begin? A person exists from conception — when a new being comes into existence. 55% What is marriage? Marriage has a given form — it’s a kind of thing we recognize, not make. 55% What is our place in nature? Active in a real nature — we cultivate, steward, transform. 50% Should we colonize space? Cultivating worlds beyond Earth is the next form of stewardship. 50% Is genetic engineering of food stewardship or domination? Genetic modification is cultivation by other means. 50% Does environmental harm in another country bind me morally? Moral obligation tracks the relations one is in; distance does matter, structurally. 50% Can prayer for someone far away affect them? Prayer changes the pray-er, not the prayed-for. 47% Are coincidences ever more than coincidence? Coincidence is exactly what the math says it is. The pattern is in the noticer. 47% Is divine omniscience compatible with human freedom? The observer is in time; foreknowledge across times raises real freedom problems. 46% Does meditation reveal something genuinely timeless? Meditators are bounded observers reporting unusual brain states; the 'timeless' is metaphorical. 46% Does prayer change God's mind? If there is an addressee at all, it is in time; prayer is communication, and may genuinely change what comes next. 46% Are the dead morally present to the living? Observers are bounded by their own moment, and no further agency makes the dead present. 43% What kind of religious-theological authority does the tradition recognize? The category does not apply — the school is non-religious. 42% Who is the moral primary — the individual, the community, the cosmos, the class, or the species? The discrete person is the moral primary. 38% What makes someone the same person over time? You are your body — continuity is bodily continuity. 36% Is the late-stage dementia patient still the person their spouse married? Same body, same person — even when the cognitive pattern has changed. 36% If a teleporter copied and destroyed you, would you have survived? Different body, different person — you died in the scanner. 36% Is reality fundamentally digital? No — continuous fields, classical limits, analog deep structure. 36% Are there indivisible units of experience? No — continuous Jamesian stream, phenomenological lived time. 36% Is memory stored or reconstructed? Reconstructed — continuous re-narrating, no fixed engrams. 36% Does history have a direction or meaning? History is not where the deepest truth lives. 36% Do animals have moral standing comparable to humans? Animal minds are real because biology is the substrate of mind. 31% Could a fetal brain organoid in a petri dish be conscious? Brain tissue can in principle do what brains do; the question is integration. 31% Should we trust expert testimony when we can't verify it? Trust expertise whose conclusions a competent mind can in principle reproduce. 31% Is religious revelation a real source of knowledge? Revelation is evaluable by reason — and not above it. 31% Does an LLM 'know' the things it correctly produces? An LLM can produce correct outputs but not reason to them; useful, not knowing. 31% What happens to "you" when you die? Death is genuinely the end. 29% Could an AI have a mind that matters? No — mind is what a biological brain does, and an LLM has no brain. 29% How is knowledge of reality produced? Through controlled empirical investigation. 17% Is salvation, liberation, or fulfillment individual or communal?
Information · 4 dilemmas, all mainstream
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