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16 de may. de 2024 · A philosopher, mathematician, and social scientist, Comte was best known as the originator of positivism, an approach to the philosophy and history of science and to the theory of societal development that identified genuine knowledge as the product of empirical observation and experiment and social-intellectual progress as the ...
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Hace 3 días · The positivist perspective has been associated with 'scientism'; the view that the methods of the natural sciences may be applied to all areas of investigation, be it philosophical, social scientific, or otherwise. Among most social scientists and historians, orthodox positivism has long since lost popular support.
26 de may. de 2024 · Parsons' action theory can be characterized as an attempt to maintain the scientific rigour of positivism while acknowledging the necessity of the "subjective dimension" of human action incorporated in hermeneutic types of sociological theories.
13 de may. de 2024 · Legal positivism reflects the belief that law is nothing more than the rules and principles that actually govern or regulate a society. Positivism insists on the separation of law and morality, and, as a result, focuses on describing laws without reference to justness or legitimacy.
Hace 4 días · A General View of Positivism; A Grief Observed; A Guide for the Perplexed; A Happy Death; A History of God; A History of Murphy's Law; A History of Philosophy (Copleston) A History of Western Philosophy; A las Barricadas; A Legend of Old Egypt; A Letter Concerning Toleration; A maiore ad minus; A Mathematician's Apology; A Message ...
14 de may. de 2024 · Rudolf Carnap (born May 18, 1891, Ronsdorf, Germany—died September 14, 1970, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) was a German-born American philosopher of logical positivism. He made important contributions to logic, the analysis of language, the theory of probability, and the philosophy of science.
19 de may. de 2024 · Leopold von Ranke (born Dec. 21, 1795, Wiehe, Thuringia, Saxony [Germany]—died May 23, 1886, Berlin) was a leading German historian of the 19th century, whose scholarly method and way of teaching (he was the first to establish a historical seminar) had a great influence on Western historiography. He was ennobled (with the addition of von to ...
