The rise of empiricism and the attempt to produce a unified understanding of the world, 1680-1750

经验主义通常被认为是现代科学方法的特征，在那些寻求以物理和生命科学中成功的科学实践为榜样的心理学和社会经济科学方法中，它通常充当良好实践的典范。该项目考察了哲学的原始形式，并展示了它如何能够以一种新颖而富有启发性的方式直接参与价值问题，以及它与“硬”科学的联系如何不仅仅是提供对这些科学的方法论解释，而是深入到科学解释的核心。

Empiricism is often regarded as the characterising feature of modern scientific method, and, in those approaches to psychology and the social and economic sciences that seek to model themselves on successful scientific practice in the physical and life sciences, it often acts as a model of good practice. The project examines the original form of empiricism and shows how it was able to directly engage questions of value in a novel and revealing way, and how its connection with 'hard' sciences was not merely to provide a methodological gloss on these, but went to the core of what scientific explanation consisted in.