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Positivism, Post-positivism, and Social Science
2021This chapter highlights positivism and post-positivism in the social sciences. ‘Post-positivism’, much like ‘positivism’, is a notoriously imprecise term that nonetheless does significantly effective work in shaping academic controversies. Post-positivist approaches are loosely organized around a common rejection of the notion that the social sciences ...
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Lucas Dolan
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Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, 1943
(1948). Logical positivism (III) Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 1-19.
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(1948). Logical positivism (III) Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 1-19.
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Positivism, Post-Positivism, and Intelligence Analysis
International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 2013In recent years, the Intelligence Community has been rather infatuated with positivist social science.
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Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 1995
Several lines of argument support the notion that the legacy of positivism (if cast in terms of the realist/instrumentalist debate) is more realist than not. Work by Joia Lewis and Alberto Coffa on both Schlick and Carnap is cited, and contemporary work from Van Fraassen and Boyd briefly alluded to.
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Several lines of argument support the notion that the legacy of positivism (if cast in terms of the realist/instrumentalist debate) is more realist than not. Work by Joia Lewis and Alberto Coffa on both Schlick and Carnap is cited, and contemporary work from Van Fraassen and Boyd briefly alluded to.
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Positivism before Logical Positivism in Nordic Philosophy
2010The concept of “style of thought” or Denkstil is today probably primarily associated with the Polish microbiologist and philosopher of science Ludwik Fleck and his writings from the 1930s. It was however used quite extensively already by Karl Mannheim in his writings on the sociology of knowledge from the 1920s.
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1987
The false alternative which my headings posit is an extrapolation from, and a contrast to, Nietzsche’s generative antithesis between the serenities of the Apollonian dream-experience and the ecstasies of the world of Dionysan peak-experiences.
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The false alternative which my headings posit is an extrapolation from, and a contrast to, Nietzsche’s generative antithesis between the serenities of the Apollonian dream-experience and the ecstasies of the world of Dionysan peak-experiences.
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International Legal Positivism
2017This chapter aims at shedding light on the curious roles performed by the idea of international legal positivism in international legal thought. This chapter first elaborates on some of the common representations of international legal positivism that have allegedly led to its demise and motivated international lawyers to refrain from declaring any ...
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2017
Positivism is a plan that can be only tautological, stipulative, contradictory, and elliptical. In sum, the failure of positivism necessarily turns us to what people do collectively. This chapter describes how seeking truth might actually be done. It focuses on the behavior of seeking truth, and on the institutional and essentially public character of ...
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Positivism is a plan that can be only tautological, stipulative, contradictory, and elliptical. In sum, the failure of positivism necessarily turns us to what people do collectively. This chapter describes how seeking truth might actually be done. It focuses on the behavior of seeking truth, and on the institutional and essentially public character of ...
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2013
In January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti. A little research informs us that around 300,000 people died and more than a million were left homeless. Emergency workers from around the globe raced to help the suffering nation. Two years later, in 2012, Oxfam reported that over 500,000 people were still in displaced persons camps, half ...
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In January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti. A little research informs us that around 300,000 people died and more than a million were left homeless. Emergency workers from around the globe raced to help the suffering nation. Two years later, in 2012, Oxfam reported that over 500,000 people were still in displaced persons camps, half ...
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