Knowledge and Human Interests (German: Erkenntnis und Interesse) is a 1968 book by the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author discusses...
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Antihumanism (section Positivism and scientism)
theory and philosophy, antihumanism or anti-humanism is a theory that is critical of traditional humanism, traditional ideas about humanity and the human condition...
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Theodor W. Adorno (section Life and career)
repressive society acting against fundamental human interests. Adorno always remained a supporter and defender of Freudian orthodox doctrine, "psychoanalysis...
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Auguste Comte (section Auguste Comte and reflexivity)
science and the observation of natural law to justify what we believe to be true within society. The condensing and formulation of human knowledge is what...
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2 December 2023. Russell, Bertrand (1948). Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits. London: George Allen and Unwin. p. 397. Donald Cary Williams (1947)...
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Structuralism (category Linguistic theories and hypotheses)
is an intellectual current and methodological approach, primarily in the social sciences, that interprets elements of human culture by way of their relationship...
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Falsifiability (section Induction and demarcation)
published 1923]. Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits. George Allen and Unwin Ltd. Rynasiewicz, Robert A. (1983). "Falsifiability and the Semantic Eliminability...
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private mental state. In phenomenology, evidence is limited to intuitive knowledge, often associated with the controversial assumption that it provides indubitable...
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Wilhelm Dilthey (category German Calvinist and Reformed Christians)
university, Dilthey's research interests revolved around questions of scientific methodology, historical evidence and history's status as a science. Dilthey...
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Max Weber (category Critics of work and the work ethic)
Übermensch and expressed the quality of human action by ceaselessly striving for knowledge. Karl Marx's writings and socialist thought in academia and active...
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and software engineering research. Qualitative research has been informed by several strands of philosophical thought and examines aspects of human life...
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philosophical statements as well as scientific theories, and align all human knowledge into a scientific worldview, freeing humankind from so many of its...
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merely human subject or mind. In the late 19th century, an even more extreme form of phenomenalism was formulated by Ernst Mach, later developed and refined...
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Gaston Bachelard (section Early life and education)
scientists overcome the obstacles to knowledge. Another goal is to “give back to human reason its function of agitation and aggressiveness” as Bachelard put...
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Knowledge is an awareness of facts, a familiarity with individuals and situations, or a practical skill. Knowledge of facts, also called propositional...
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professional interests and political ideologies. Barry Barnes detailed the connection between the sociology of scientific knowledge and Kuhn in his book...
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Human Concept of the World, 1891) which influenced Ernst Mach, Ber Borochov and, to a lesser extent, William James. He taught Anatoly Lunacharsky and...
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published. Jürgen Habermas' Knowledge and Human Interests is published. Viola Klein's and Alva Myrdal's Women's Two Roles: Home and Work, 2nd edition is published...
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postpositivism, where Popper's view of human knowledge as hypothetical, continually growing and open to change ascended and verificationism, in academic circles...
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Structural functionalism (redirect from Functionalism (anthropology and sociology))
human mind, seeking the essential nature of beings, the first and final causes (the origin and purpose) of all effects—in short, absolute knowledge—supposes...
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"length" logically is not one concept but many, with some concepts requiring knowledge of geometry.[citation needed] Each concept is to be defined by the measuring...
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A. J. Ayer (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956). Ayer was educated at Eton College and the University of Oxford, after...
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Dawkins and Alan Sokal as presenting a relativist view of scientific progress. In Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege...
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Legal positivism (section Etymology and semantics)
established (that is, "posited") by human beings, and that this act of positing the law makes it authoritative and binding.[better source needed] According...
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human behavior from an unbiased, neutral point of view, focusing only on what can be verified by direct observation, preferably using statistical and...
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Empiricism (category Internalism and externalism)
epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence. It is one of several...
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Meaning (philosophy) (section Truth and meaning)
Habermas, Jürgen, Knowledge and Human Interests (English translation, 1972). See e.g. Habermas, Jürgen, Knowledge and Human Interests (English translation...
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Logical positivism (category Philosophical schools and traditions)
rationalism—which characterised human knowledge as continuously evolving via conjectures and refutations—and Kuhn's historical and social perspectives on the...
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Truth (section Etymology and ordinary usage)
Habermas, Jürgen, Knowledge and Human Interests (English translation, 1972). See, e.g., Habermas, Jürgen, Knowledge and Human Interests (English translation...
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György Lukács (section Life and politics)
Lukács's interests in his last years at Heidelberg. As a salon, the Sunday Circle sponsored cultural events whose participants included literary and musical...
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