Empiricism is inadequate because, well, scientific theories explain the seen in terms of the unseen.

So, contrary to popular belief, there is not a conflict of interest between empiricism and values.

The books on this shelf pertain to empiricism, and on this shelf, materialism, and on this, psychopiscoparalysm.

At the time, what they thought distinguished science was a radical idea about things unseen, known as empiricism.

The basic idea of humanism is the improvable quality of life that we can do good things, that there are things worth doing because they're good things to do, and that clear eyed empiricism can help us figure out how to do them.

After discovering that mathematics could be applied to understanding the physical world, a small group of natural philosophers turned toward experimental empiricism with practical objectives. Spearheaded by this minority, the scientific revolution swept through Europe and, later, spread to the rest of the world.