Positivism Including Comte's Positivism, Durkheim's Positivism, Antipositivism, Critical Theory, Logical Positivism, And Positivis

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Positivism refers to a set of epistemological perspectives and philosophies of science which hold that the scientific meth... Read more

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Positivism refers to a set of epistemological perspectives and philosophies of science which hold that the scientific method is the best approach to uncovering the processes by which both physical and human events occur. Positivism asserts that the only authentic knowledge is that which is based on sense experience and positive verification. As an approach to the philosophy of science deriving from Enlightenment thinkers such as Henri de Saint-Simon and Pierre-Simon Laplace, Auguste Comte saw the scientific method as replacing metaphysics in the history of thought, observing the circular dependence of theory and observation in science. This book studies positivism including the law of three stages, social facts, the Rules of Sociological Method, and critical theory. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. Less