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Auguste Comte [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Auguste Comte is widely acknowledged as the founder of the science of sociology and the 'Religion of Humanity'. In this fascinating study, the first major reassessment of Comte’s sociology for many years, Mike Gane draws on recent scholarship and presents a new reading of this remarkable figure.
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Measurement approaches for corporate impacts on ecosystem condition: Current landscape and future priorities

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 17, Issue 5, Page 1336-1344, May 2026.
Abstract Ecosystem condition is an important concept for understanding the impacts and dependencies of business on biodiversity and consideration of it is recommended by assessment and disclosure frameworks, including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, Taskforce on Nature‐related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and Global Reporting ...
Jacob Bedford   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hail to the thief: spectral egalitarianism in the Moroccan High Atlas Songez au voleur ! les spectres de l’égalitarisme dans le Haut‐Atlas marocain

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 104-120, March 2026.
This essay examines the spectres haunting ideas of egalitarianism among Tashelhiyt‐speaking communities in the Moroccan High Atlas: first, the tyrant, an obvious frontal threat to ideas of equality; and then the vastly more complex figure of the thief (amkhar).
Matthew Carey
wiley   +1 more source

La filosofía de la biología de Auguste Comte

open access: yesCuestiones de Filosofía, 2012
Resumen Elpropósito de estas páginas esmostrar el estatus epistemológico de la biología en Comte. El lugar que ocupa en la filosofía positiva, poniendo un particular énfasis en su relaciónconla ciencia sociológica.Desde eldominio de la biología, de su ...
Marcelo Perez M
doaj   +1 more source

Auguste Comte’s Concept of Systematic Obsolescence, by Which All Truly Unarguable Views Must Spontaneously Fade Away

open access: yesPhilosophia Scientiæ, 2022
The usual account of Auguste Comte, thinker of the “positive” science, overshadows his attention to the “spectacle of destruction” (and of obsolescence), to which the metaphysical state of human knowledge and humanity offers the stage. I first illustrate
Jan Maršálek
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 455-476, December 2025.
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
wiley   +1 more source

Shedding the cloak of neutrality: A guide for reflexive practices to make the sciences more inclusive and just

open access: yesEcosphere, Volume 16, Issue 4, April 2025.
Abstract The environmental sciences community cannot meaningfully address the compounding ecological and societal crises of our time without also addressing epistemic oppression—the persistent, systemic exclusion that dismisses or erases certain forms of expertise in knowledge production and scientific practices.
Rapichan Phurisamban   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemic injustice and the “Nature of Science”

open access: yesJournal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 901-941, April 2025.
Abstract Scientists and science educators have argued that learners (students, preservice teachers, and inservice teachers) should understand knowledge construction in science, in addition to figuring out disciplinary core ideas. Given this goal, some science education scholars created a construct called the “Nature of Science” (NOS), which aims to ...
David Stroupe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

WIARA W RELACJI DO FILOZOFII NA PRZYKŁADZIE POGLĄDÓW TOMASZA Z AKWINU I AUGUSTA COMTE’A

open access: yesCivitas et Lex, 2018
The rationality of faith can not be justified on the basis of any conception of philosophy. The positivism of August Comte examining the facts refuse the rationality of the supernatural faith.
Marcin Sieńkowski
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Women Suppliers to Medieval Courts: Making Visible Ducal and Royal Power

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 33-49, March 2025.
Abstract This article analyses under‐studied women suppliers to medieval courts, with a focus on Burgundian and French courts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through its archival research, it identifies over a hundred women involved in creating, supplying and repairing objects.
Katherine A. Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

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