Although the term “idealism” is used in many senses to describe various trends in epistemology, each case is most illuminatingly understood in its historical context. To understand Berkeley's idealism, we must understand it as a reaction to Locke. Read Article

Written by Matthew Minerd on February 6th, 2014. Subject: Philosophy. Filed in Epistemology, about Berkely Hume

Hume attempts to deconstruct epistemology through a criticism of the necessity of cause and effect. Instead, he spurs the investigation of nature through statistics and probability. Read Article

Written by Thomas Chaney on August 29th, 2013. Subject: Philosophy. Filed in Epistemology, about Hume Empiricism