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Article: IN DEFENSE OF RADICAL EMPIRICISM: ESSAYS AND LECTURES.(Review) (book review)
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- The Philosophical Review
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- July 1, 2000
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IN DEFENSE OF RADICAL EMPIRICISM: ESSAYS AND LECTURES. By RODERICK FIRTH. Edited by JOHN TROYER. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Pp. vii, 439.
This volume collects all of Firth's major published writings, two sets of unpublished lectures, and three essays from his unfinished book on epistemology. John Troyer provides a very helpful overview of the essays, as well as a short biography of a person of deep convictions (a Quaker for most of his life) and a devoted teacher and colleague. (John Rawls's "Memorial Minute for Roderick Firth," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (1991): 109-18, should also be consulted.)
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