Positivism Dispute - Further Reading

Further Reading

  • Adorno, Albert, Dahrendorf, Habermas, Pilot und Popper, The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology, Heinemann London 1976 and Harper Torchbook 1976.
  • Habermas Knowledge and Human Interests (original: Erkenntnis und Interesse, 1968)
  • Habermas Technology and Science as Ideology (original: w:de: Technik und Wissenschaft als „Ideologie“, 1968)
  • Helmut F. Spinner: Popper und die Politik. Berlin (Dietz) 1978
  • Dahms, H.-J., Positivismusstreit. Die Auseinandersetzungen der Frankfurter Schule mit dem logischen Positivismus, dem amerikanischen Pragmatismus und dem kritischen Rationalismus, Frankfurt a.M. (Suhrkamp) 1994.
  • Find further literature in the German "Study Guide to Hans Albert"
Positivism
Positivist
perspectives
  • Empiricism
  • Scientism
  • Antihumanism
  • Rationalism
Declinations
  • Logical positivism within Analytic philosophy
  • Postpositivism
  • Sociological positivism
  • Legal positivism
  • Rankean historical positivism
  • Machian positivism (Empirio-criticism)
  • Polish positivism
  • Russian positivism (Empiriomonism)
  • Positivism in international relations
  • Positivist school of criminology
Main concepts
  • Consilience
  • Verificationism
  • Induction
  • Evidence
  • Justificationism
  • Pseudoscience
  • Elimination of metaphysics
  • Demarcation
  • Unity of science
Antitheses
  • Antipositivism
  • Humanities
  • Geisteswissenschaft
  • Human science
  • Hermeneutics
  • Critical theory
  • Historicism
  • Historism
  • Reflectivism
  • Confirmation holism
  • Falsifiability
  • The problem of induction
Debate
Related debates
over method
  • Methodenstreit of economics (1890s)
  • Werturteilsstreit (1909)
  • Positivismusstreit (1960s)
  • Science Wars (1990s)
Contributions
  • The Course in Positive Philosophy (1830)
  • A General View of Positivism (1848)
  • The Analysis of Sensations (1886)
  • The Logic of Modern Physics (1927)
  • Language, Truth, and Logic (1936)
  • The Two Cultures (1959)
  • The Universe in a Nutshell (2001)
Proponents
  • Auguste Comte
  • Émile Durkheim
  • Richard Avenarius
  • Vienna Circle
  • Berlin Circle
Criticism
  • Materialism and Empirio-criticism (1909)
  • History and Class Consciousness (1923)
  • The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934)
  • The Poverty of Historicism (1936)
  • World Hypotheses (1942)
  • Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951)
  • Truth and Method (1960)
  • Conjectures and Refutations (1963)
  • One-Dimensional Man (1964)
  • Knowledge and Human Interests (1968)
  • The Poverty of Theory (1978)
  • The Scientific Image (1980)
  • The Rhetoric of Economics (1986)
Critics
  • Wilhelm Dilthey
  • Max Weber
  • Gaston Bachelard
  • György Lukács
  • Theodor Adorno
  • Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Karl Popper
  • Thomas Kuhn
  • Paul Feyerabend
  • Mario Bunge
Contended
concepts
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Verstehen
  • Phronesis
Related
paradigm shifts in the
history of science
  • Non-Euclidean geometry (1830s)
  • Heisenberg uncertainty principle (1927)
Related topics
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of science (Deductive-nomological model · Ramsey sentences · Theory of sense-data)
  • Critical rationalism
  • Sociology
  • Social science
  • Criticism of science
  • Objectivity in science
  • Relationship between religion and science
  • Nomothetic–idiographic distinction
  • Qualitative research
  • Phenomenalism
  • Epistemological idealism
  • Operationalism
  • Instrumentalism
  • Behavioralism
  • Structuralism
  • Structural functionalism
  • Structuration
  • Holism in anthropology
  • Naturalism in literature
  • Modernism
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