¿Cómo saber?: el positivismo y sus críticos en la filosofía de las ciencias
The paper brings into focus positivism as a phenomenon manifoldly faceted and at the same time persistent and recurrent throughout the history of science. Arguments inspired by the Enlightenment or with objectivistic background alternate with others marked by agnosticism and subjectivism. At one tim...
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| Summary: | The paper brings into focus positivism as a phenomenon manifoldly faceted and at the same time persistent and recurrent throughout the history of science. Arguments inspired by the Enlightenment or with objectivistic background alternate with others marked by agnosticism and subjectivism. At one time its protagonists are engaged in projects of progressive orientation (Vienna Circle), another time they struggle for the most rigorous orthodoxy (Berkeley). The endeavour to come to a valuation of positivism turns out to be even more complicated when we take into account its role in mathematics.
The investigation tries to circumscribe something like an invariant core of positivistic thinking, starting from the controver-sies which it stirred up in the course of its history, and to introduce some new criterions related with a structuralistic viewpoint, in an effort to pull the discussion out of the traditional order of battle which has become sterile. |
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