The rise and fall of logical positivism is the most spectacular story of 20 th century philosophy. Logical positivism was wildly successful, and some of its key ideas became widely accepted as ...

[In 1957, Professor H.L.A. Hart of Oxford University gave a lecture at Harvard, subsequently published as "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals, 71 Harv. J. Rev. 593 (1958). In this talk, ...

Jim Baggott reviews Escape from Shadow Physics: the Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory by Adam Forrest Kay Quantum shadows Adam Forrest Kay’s new book examines the debate over ...

In criminology, positivism shifted focus away from moral blame and toward scientific explanations, examining how biology, psychology, and environment shape criminal behavior. White House draws out ...

IN a most timely article entitled "Positivism" (Mind, July 1944), Prof. W. T. Stace throws great light on the doctrinaire character of the so-called logical positivists. After making a useful ...

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Mar., 1927), pp. 237-250 (14 pages) ...

The Journal of Social Work Education is a refereed professional journal concerned with education in social work and social welfare. Its purpose is to serve as a forum for creative exchange on trends, ...

ORTHODOX scientism and dogmatic Sufism have a sectional view of reality. While the former deems this universe as autocratic, the latter takes it as illusory. Both fail to grasp complete reality. Thus, ...

The Origin of Neo-Positivism; a Chapter in the History of Recent Philosophy. By Prof. Victor Kraft. Translated from the German ‘Der Wiener Kreis’ by Arthur Pap. Pp. xii + 209. (New York: Philosophical ...