David Hume's philosophical treatise, "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding," investigates the nature of human knowledge, causality, and belief. It is a foundational text in empiricism, significantly influencing subsequent philosophical thought on epistemology and metaphysics.
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Held in the Philosophy of Science chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Francis Bacon — Novum Organum (1620)
- René Descartes — Discourse on Method (1637)
- Bertrand Russell — The Problems of Philosophy (1912)
- William Whewell — The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840)
- John Stuart Mill — A System of Logic (1843)
- Henri Poincaré — Science and Hypothesis (1902)
- Auguste Comte — The Positive Philosophy (1830)
- Heinrich Hertz — The Principles of Mechanics (1899)