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'''Richard Burthogge''' (1638–1698) was an English physician and philosopher. |
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Richard Burthogge (1638–1698) was an English physician and philosopher.
Life
He was born in Plymouth, and went to school at Exeter grammar school.[1] He studied at All Souls College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1658. He then spent time at the University of Leiden, where he probably came under the influence of the philosopher Arnold Geulincx,[2] and graduated M.D. in 1662. He practiced medicine in Bowden, Devon.[1]
Views
In his philosophical and theological writings he was a critic in some matters of John Locke, but generally a supporter, and an advocate of religious toleration. His epistemology was empiricist, and he opposed innate ideas. His metaphysics was distinctive, but not completely worked out.[3]
Works
- Organum vetus et novum, or Discourse on Reason and Truth (1678)
- Essay upon Reason and the Nature of Spirits (1694)
Notes
- ^ a b Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Udo Thiele, Individuation, p. 232 in Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers (editors), The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (2003).
- ^ Andrew Pyle (editor), Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers (2000), article Burthogge, Richard, pp. 147-150.
Further reading
- Margaret Winifred Landes, (editor) (1921) The Philosophical Writings of Richard Burthogge