A General View of Positivism (Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme) is a 1848 book by the French philosopher Auguste Comte, first published in English...

Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive –meaning a posteriori facts derived...

legal philosophy, legal positivism is the theory that the existence of the law and its content depend on social facts, such as acts of legislation, judicial...

Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, and both of which together are also known as neopositivism, is a movement whose central thesis is...

The positivism dispute (German: Positivismusstreit) was a political-philosophical dispute between the critical rationalists (Karl Popper, Hans Albert)...

Positive Philosophy [1830–1842] and A General View of Positivism (1844). Though Comte is generally regarded as the "Father of Sociology", the discipline was...

that a holistic view of the universe explains its processes and their evolution more effectively than a reductive view. Professional philosophers of science...

Polish Positivism (Polish: Pozytywizm) was a social, literary and philosophical movement that became dominant in late-19th-century partitioned Poland...

criticisms of logical positivism "devastating". In his view, Popper's most important argument against logical positivism is that, while it claimed to be a scientific...

Nutshell is winner of the Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2002.[citation needed] Roger Penrose Kip Thorne Physical cosmology Positivism List of textbooks on...

developed among researchers dissatisfied with post-positivism, the theories of which they considered too general and ill-suited to reflect the nuance and variability...

shocking events of the late sixties and early seventies". Positivism Chaurasia, Radhey (2003) History of Political Thought, New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, p...

systems from a structural point of view and demonstrated how apparently different social organizations were different permutations of a few basic kinship...

were followed by the 1848 work, A General View of Positivism (published in English in 1865). The first 3 volumes of the Course dealt chiefly with the...

metaphysical categories must instead be dismantled. Positivism is a philosophy of science based on the view that in the social as well as natural sciences...

that a theory is empirically adequate expresses the epistemological component. Constructive empiricism opposes scientific realism, logical positivism (or...

a pseudo-problem, preferring to focus on the more general distinction between reliable and unreliable knowledge. [Feyerabend] regards Lakatos's view as...

debate.[according to whom?] A critical argument on scientific objectivity and positivism is that all science has a degree of interpretivism.: 29  In the...

Postpositivism or postempiricism is a metatheoretical stance that critiques and amends positivism and has impacted theories and practices across philosophy...

Jahrhunderts. Zur Geschichte des russischen Positivismus [The history of Russian positivism.]. Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag. 278 pp. Wikimedia Commons...

Evidence-based toxicology Falsifiability Hierarchy of evidence Logical positivism Mathematical proof National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices Policy-based...

to the philosophy of science, the term scientism frequently implies a critique of the more extreme expressions of logical positivism and has been used...

qualitative research has been influenced by a number of branches of philosophy, for example, positivism, postpositivism, critical theory, and constructivism...

be preferred is one of the contrasting differences between critical rationalism and classical views on science, such as positivism, which holds that one...

the philosophy of science of Ernest Nagel's The Structure of Science (1961). Kuhn's book sparked a historicist "revolt against positivism" (the so-called...

emphasize social problems and inequalities. Auguste Comte, the "Father of Positivism", pointed out the need to keep society unified as many traditions were...

perspective and look for various general scientific laws; then when they believe they have identified a disorder, they switch their view to the idiographic perspective...

it had roots in the positivism of Ernst Mach and Gustav Kirchhoff plus a number of aspects of the Kantianism or neo-Kantianism of Hermann von Helmholtz...

sociological positivism and economic determinism, rooted in the analysis of social action. In anthropology, Verstehen has come to mean a systematic interpretive...

of its objective and measurable nature, while others view it as a humanities discipline because of its focus on values and interpretation. Law is not always...