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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"logical positivism"”.
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BEHAVIORISM AND LOGICAL POSITIVISM: A REVISED ACCOUNT OF THE ALLIANCE (VOLUMES I AND II)
… the major behaviorists drew importantly upon logical positivist philosophy of science in formulating their approach to psychology is ill-founded. Detailed historical analysis of the work of the neobehaviorists Edward C. Tolman, Clark L. Hull, and B. F. Skinner leads to the following …
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The Independent Group's encounters with logical positivism and searches for unity in the 1951 Growth and Form Exhibition
This study analyzes the intellectual and historical milieu of the Independent Group. Its point of departure is Growth and Form, an exhibition of scientific imagery, largely conceived and designed by Richard Hamilton, and the book accompanying the exhibition, Aspects of Form, edited by Lancelot Law …
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Digital Fabrication for Contemporary Material Specificity
The modernist model of “logical positivism” that emerged in the early-20th century Modernist movement placed the onus of design squarely within the material world. This movement attempted to replace the immaterial “metaphysical” approach to design and material with physically-provable absolute …
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The question of method in social science
… of the social sciences. A dominant view--positivism--argues that human behavior can be best explained by employing the methods of the natural sciences. Developed initially by the philosophers of the Enlightenment, positivism was popularized through the writings of Auguste Comte and John …
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Kenneth Burke's relation to modern thought and literature
… held by A.J. Ayer, a persuasive exponent of logical positivism, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the founder of ordinary language philosophy, and Bronisław Malinowski, a pioneer of anthropological linguistics. Each is presented as a kind of screen, against which I project Burke and the New Critic’s way …
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Language, Necessity and Convention: Reconsidering the Linguistic Approach to Modality
… how it emerged and developed in the work of the logical positivists, and, in particular, the role it was meant to play in "making a consistent empiricism possible". Next, in part B, I defend the core ideas of the approach against various objections. Notably, I consider the objection that truth …
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American Public Administration: A Foundation for Praxis and Praxiology
American Public Administration (PA) theory and practices have lacked adequately articulated or formalized normative foundations since the formal founding of the American State. Discussions regarding how PA theory derives from individual and collective critical reflection on practices (praxiology) …
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Det vardagliga och det vetenskapliga : Om sociologins begrepp
… taken in the theoretical discussion on sociological concept formation and its relation to everyday life and social sciences. The main theoretical positions in the debate are summarized in two ideal typological models: (1) The rationalist theory of an epistemological break between everyday …