Questions tagged [positivism]

There are many questions in philosophy of the following kind: Does my friend have a soul, or is my friend a zombie? Is the mind separate from the body, or is it the same? Where does the universe come from? These questions have the property that,…

Why is positivism seen as belonging to leftist philosophers? I would have thought that the principle of following the law as it is and not as it ought to be is more right wing than left wing? In his article The Radicalism of Legal Positivism Leiter…

In this dialogue between André Breton and a journalist, André Breton defines surrealism as a reaction against rationalism and philosophical positivism. I suppose André Breton he referring here to Comte's positivism which is defined as: Auguste…