The Course of Positive Philosophy (Cours de Philosophie Positive) was a series of texts written by the French philosopher of science and founding sociologist...
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Positivism (redirect from Positive sciences)
described the epistemological perspective of positivism in The Course in Positive Philosophy, a series of texts published between 1830 and 1842. These...
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Auguste Comte (category French critics of religions)
described the epistemological perspective of positivism in The Course in Positive Philosophy, a series of texts published between 1830 and 1842. These...
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The law of three stages is an idea developed by Auguste Comte in his work The Course in Positive Philosophy. It states that society as a whole, and each...
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1840s in sociology (redirect from Timeline of sociology (1840s))
5 of The Course of Positive Philosophy: La Partie Historique De La Philosophie Sociale Auguste Comte publishes Volume 6 of The Course in Positive Philosophy:...
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Causes. Auguste Comte begins publication of his Course of Positive Philosophy (Cours de Philosophie Positive). Copley Medal: not awarded March 5 – Étienne-Jules...
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branch of academia. To say that Windelband supported that last dichotomy is a consequent misunderstanding of his own thought. For him, any branch of science...
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Justification (epistemology) (redirect from Philosophy of justification)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Foundationalist Theories of Epistemic Justification Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Epistemology...
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2014 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2021-10-09 Comte, Auguste. Course on Positive Philosophy. James...
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Social science (redirect from Types of social scientists)
in The Course in Positive Philosophy [1830–1842] and A General View of Positivism (1844). Though Comte is generally regarded as the "Father of Sociology"...
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some of which are explored below. Comte first described the epistemological perspective of positivism in The Course in Positive Philosophy, a series of texts...
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of superstring theory in quantum mechanics). He tells the history and principles of modern physics. He seeks to "combine Einstein's General Theory of...
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Holism (redirect from The whole is more than the sum of its parts)
dominant notion in the philosophy of science that systems containing parts contain no unique properties beyond those parts. Proponents of holism consider the...
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Behavioralism (category Subfields of political science)
Behavioralism is an approach in the philosophy of science, describing the scope of the fields now collectively called the behavioral sciences; this approach...
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Ernst Mach (redirect from The Analysis of Sensations)
held a newly created chair for "the history and philosophy of the inductive sciences" at the University of Vienna. In his historico-philosophical studies...
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Richard Avenarius (category Academic staff of the University of Zurich)
Zurich, Berlin, and the University of Leipzig. At the University of Leipzig, he received the Doctor of Philosophy in 1868 with his thesis on Baruch Spinoza...
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Eugen Dühring (redirect from Critical History of Philosophy)
und Feinde; the mention of Feinde ('enemies') is characteristic. Dühring's philosophy claims to be emphatically the philosophy of reality. He is passionate...
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery is a 1959 book about the philosophy of science by the philosopher Karl Popper. Popper rewrote his book in English from...
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Structuralism (redirect from Theatre of Meaning)
proponents of structuralism, such as Lacan, continue to influence continental philosophy and many of the fundamental assumptions of some of structuralism's...
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Non-Euclidean geometry (redirect from Models of non-Euclidean geometry)
positive, the defect of triangles in Euclidean geometry is zero, and the defect of triangles in elliptic geometry is negative. Before the models of a...
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Constructive empiricism (category Concepts in the philosophy of science)
In philosophy of science, constructive empiricism is a form of empiricism. While it is sometimes referred to as an empiricist form of structuralism, its...
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Berlin Circle (redirect from Berlin circle (philosophy))
views about philosophy. The "Berlin Circle" had its roots in seminars by Hans Reichenbach between 1926-1928, resulting in the formation of a group that...
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a landmark event in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science. Kuhn challenged the then prevailing view of progress in science in which scientific...
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on the flag of the Republic and the 1891 Constitution was inspired by Auguste Comte's Course of Positive Philosophy and System of Positive Politics. The...
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Optimism (redirect from Positive mindsets)
Optimism is the attitude or mindset of expecting events to lead to particularly positive, favorable, desirable, and hopeful outcomes. A common idiom used...
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science in the Course of Positive Philosophy (c. 1830–1842), whereas his A General View of Positivism (1848) emphasized the particular goals of sociology....
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Ludwig Boltzmann: His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900-1906, Springer, 1995, p. 51. Dorothy Emmet, The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking, Springer, 2015...
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In social theory and philosophy, antihumanism or anti-humanism is a theory that is critical of traditional humanism, traditional ideas about humanity...
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Postpositivism (category Metatheory of science)
positivism and has impacted theories and practices across philosophy, social sciences, and various models of scientific inquiry. While positivists emphasize independence...
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other confusions of our time. London: Souvenir. ISBN 978-0285638037. OCLC 144596155. Comte, Auguste. "Course of Positive Philosophy (1830)". Ward, Keith...
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