Tradition
Positivism
Overview
philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from scientific observation is the exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge
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This fundamental doctrine of Positivism is not to be attributed in the full breadth of its meanings to any single thinker. It is the slow result of a vast process carried out in separate departments, which began with the first use of our intellectual powers, and which is only just completed in those who exhibit those powers in their…
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
The chapter “THE INTELLECTUAL CHARACTER OF POSITIVISM” is titled for Positivism; states what Positivism is.
Indeed, though the mode of thought expressed by the terms Positive and Positivism is widely spread, the words themselves are, as usual, better known through the enemies of that mode of thinking than through its friends; and more than one thinker who never called himself or his opinions by those appellations, and carefully guarded himself against being confounded with those who did, finds himself, sometimes to his…
John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism
Names Positivism several times; states what Positivism is.
Spencer, which contains some further observations in the same connection: "There appears to have got abroad in the United States, a very erroneous impression respecting the influence of Comte's writings in England. I suppose that the currency obtained by the words 'Positivism' and 'Positivist,' is to blame for this. Comte having designated by the term Positive Philosophy all that body of definitely-established…
Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress
Names Positivism several times; the author is tied to Positivism in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Positivism
- Richard Avenarius
- Paul Carus
- Wilhelm Windelband
- Auguste Comte
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- Norberto Bobbio
- Lev Shestov
- Mircea Eliade
- John Stuart Mill
- Karl Marx
- Herbert Feigl
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Peter Winch
- Moritz Schlick
- Leo Strauss
- George Henry Lewes
- Alexandre Koyré
- J. L. Austin
- Herbert Spencer
- Thomas Kuhn
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Georgi Plekhanov
- C. I. Lewis
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Georg Simmel
- Hans Hahn (mathematician)
- History
- Reification (fallacy)
- French Revolution
- Falsifiability
- Friedrich Hayek
- Neo-Kantianism
- Harper (publisher)
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- George Eliot
- Auguste Comte
- Technocracy
- Historiography
- Polish Positivism
- Philosophy
- George Holyoake
- Verstehen
- Intuition
- Hans Reichenbach
- John Stuart Mill
- Berlin Circle
- Antipositivism
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Harriet Martineau
- Human science
- Kardecist spiritism
- Motto
- Polish Positivism
- Reproducibility
- Rationalization (sociology)
- Reliability (statistics)
- Dmitry Pisarev
- Calendar reform
- Paul Lazarsfeld
- Richard Congreve
- Ernst Kantorowicz
- Middle-range theory (sociology)
- Social fact
- The Logic of Modern Physics
- Wilhelm Scherer
- Physics and Beyond
- Positivist calendar
- Suhrkamp Verlag
- Cercle des prolétaires positivistes
- Fabien Magnin
- The Universe in a Nutshell
- Émile Littré